Hi All,
You may have realized there has been a lot of news about Ronnie Biggs in the media lately... Most of it completely inaccurate!
As you may or may not know, my friend Mike Gray and I have written a book published by Apex called 'Ronnie Biggs- The Inside Story' Using his word board, Ronnie has given us (Myself, Mike and often Roy Shaw.) The TRUTH!
1) Ronnie NEVER even set foot upon the train. He was on the grass verge with a spare train driver who turned out to be useless!
2) People constantly say that the train driver Jack Mills was killed by injuries sustained by the train. Mills actually died SEVEN YEARS LATER OF LEUKEMIA.... No disrespect, but where is the link to the robbery and Mills tragic death? If he was that hurt, how did he get back behind the train controls and drive it to where Reynolds wanted it when Ron's driver turned out to be useless??? Like it or not... It was all propaganda!!
3) It's a fact that three of the robbers got away and have not been caught up till this day. One of the three that was never even suspected was the one who coshed Jack Mills... FACT!!
Every train robber held their silence. Imagine that today, they would climbing over each over to make statements!!! So, they got thirty years for a man who was not even on trial!!
4) In the words of the leader Bruce Reynolds "Ronnie was the tea boy" he was at the bottom of the chain! Some reports have Ron as the 'robbery mastermind' even Ron laughed at that!
5) The robbery was NOT an armed robbery. Reynolds insisted on NO guns or knives!
6) If Ronnie was a hardened villain,why did he not make money from crime in Brazil like Charlie Wilson did in Spain and a lot of others have done all over the world, or ended up in the drug world like Wilson, Tommy Wisbey and Eddie Richardson?
He chose instead to make self-deprecating T shirts and other dignity stripping souvenirs,that's what made it look like he was taking the pi** out of the system but he was trying to promote T-Shirts with things like 'I met Ronnie Biggs in Brazil.' he would rather be self deprecating than go back into crime!! Ronnie wasn't a villain, he was actually a carpenter.
7) The idea of prison is rehabilitation/change for the better. How can you can more than a young man climbing over the wall 40 odd years ago, to a man who can't talk (He uses a letter board!), can't eat (tube in the stomach), Can't drink (through a drip!) Can barely walk (Wheelchair!), Caught MRSA,'is seen as a threat to society!' Even if released, he would be in his own prison but tax payers won't have to pay for it....Can you change more than that!
8) ALL these idiots that say 'He should stay in prison' I have talked too do NOT know their facts or done any research, they are stumped after 2 minutes! You, know, EMPTY VESSELS MAKE THE LOUDEST NOISE!!!!
Opinions are a reward for knowing your facts, everyone is entitled to them but I think they should be earned by research!
There's so many things I don't know about, so if it comes to something I don't know, I listen and research.But most people just shout crap out!!
The facts on here by the way, come from myself, Mike Gray, Mike Biggs and Roy Shaw who are Ron's most regular visitors. Also, Freddie Foreman - who hid all the train Robbers and got them out of the country. (Fred knows and knew EVERYONE... But he had never heard of Ronnie... Just proves how big a villain Ron was!), Bruce Reynolds, ALL the 'Chaps' and even screws on visits who don't think he should be in there!
We ALWAYS question the screws and they can never believe he's in there!!
9) The system will wait until they know Ron has got about 3 weeks left and then release him on compassionate grounds. That way they look humane and Ron's out of their hair! The same thing happened with Reg Kray. (Strangely, also in Norwich!) and NOT ALL the train robbers served 30 years, 'Buster' Edwards got 15 years but never served it all.
10) Just to let you know, There is a lot of talk about Ron's so called 'friends' taking bribe money to make sure Ron didn't change his mind and got on the plane,knowing he was going straight to prison!! A LOT of 'Heavy Duty Chaps' have the hump and say Ronnie was handed over like a cow for cash!!
Thank you to Mike Gray, Mike Biggs, Ronnie Biggs, Roy Shaw, Paul Knight, Jamie O'Keefe, 'All the decent chaps' And the man I really admire- Mal Vango!
'RONNIE BIGGS - THE INSIDE STORY' by Tel Currie and Mike Gray - foreword by Roy Shaw, published by apex is out now.
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