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The Great Train Robbery, and the part Ronnie Biggs played in it, is one of the most famous true crime stories of all time. Ronnie's imprisonment, subsequent escape and life on the run has been the subject of much discussion and this new book sets out the facts for anyone wishing to find out what really happened on the day of the robbery and in the years beyond. Do you know how many members of rail staff were on board the train on the day of the robbery? Are you aware which celebrities became involved in the Free Ronnie Biggs Campaign? Can you name the many films, documentaries and books that have been produced about the Great Train Robbery? All this information and more is in 101 Interesting Facts on Ronnie Biggs and The Great Train Robbery. Despite Ronnie Biggs' advancing age and the fact that 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery, the daring 1963 heist still attracts a great deal of interest. If you would like to know the facts, this book is for you.

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	31 octobre 2013
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781909949973
Langue	English

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101 INTERESTING FACTS ON RONNIE BIGGS AND THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

Compiled by Mike Gray
UNOFFICIAL AND UNAUTHORISED

Publisher Information
First published in 2013 by
Apex Publishing Ltd
PO Box 7086, Clacton on Sea
Essex, CO15 5WN, England
www.apexpublishing.co.uk
Digital edition converted and distributed in 2013 by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
Copyright © 2013 Mike Gray
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition, that no part of this book is to be reproduced, in any shape or form. Or by way of trade, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser, without prior permission of the copyright holder.

About the author
Mike Gray is the organiser of the ‘Free Ronnie Biggs’ campaign. He was born in 1957 in Lambeth, London. Mike first contacted Ronnie Biggs in Rio, Brazil, in 1989, and set up the Ronnie Biggs website with Michael Biggs in 1999. He was also involved in setting up ‘The Biggs Experience Limited’ with Ronnie, Michael, and Bruce and Nick Reynolds. Mike was a regular prison visitor to Biggs. Mike’s first book ‘Ronnie Biggs: The Inside Story’ was published in 2009, co-written with Tel Currie. Mike also wrote ‘The Ronnie Biggs Quiz Book’ which was published in 2013.

The Facts Ronnie Biggs’ wedding in the prison chapel, at HMP Belmarsh, in July 2002, was attended by ten specially invited and Home Office vetted guests, which did not include any of Ronnie’s underworld friends or associates, only close family and friends along with his legal representatives. The ten also included the bride (Raimunda De Castro) and best man (son, Michael Biggs). Gordon (Douglas) Goody, one of the Great Train Robbers, who is now 84-years-old and is suffering with emphysema, still lives in Mojacar, southern Spain, where he used to run a popular beach bar for local ex-pats. To this day, he still has one of the original stolen mail bags from the train robbery of 8 August 1963. Ronnie Biggs once appeared in the adult men’s magazine, Men Only, but only as a colour six page editorial feature. Paul Raymond, the publisher and owner, who was once known as The King of Soho, flew to Rio De Janeiro with his daughter Debbie, to spend a week in the company of Ronnie. Both Debbie and Paul Raymond have now passed away. Elton John’s ex-manager, Gus Dudgeon, was one of the first visitors to see Ronnie in HMP Belmarsh upon his return to the UK in May, 2001. Gus visited Ronnie with Train Robbery mastermind Bruce Reynolds, and Gus was also involved in the setting up of the 1999 Ronnie Biggs Amnesty campaign, along with Nick and Bruce Reynolds and Mike Gray. Gus and his wife Sheila were sadly killed in a car crash on the M4 motorway a year after visiting Biggs, in July, 2002. The Train Robbers book by Piers Paul Read in 1978, told of the German Nazi connection, a certain ex-German Commando called Otto Skorzeny was involved in the financial and planning side of the Train Robbery. Author Read played along and eventually realised it was a publicity stunt instigated by Ronald (Buster) Edwards, to increase public interest in the book and its sales, the book’s publicity featured the German story when published. When Ronnie Biggs was re-arrested in Rio de Janeiro in February 1974, by Scotland Yard detectives, he was held in a Brazilian prison. While awaiting his forthcoming extradition back to the UK, his cellmate was a certain Fernand Legros, a world famous art forger, who was also awaiting extradition to his French homeland. He suggested to Biggs, that if his partner was pregnant, by Brazilian law they could not extradite him, as luck would have it, Biggs current partner Raimunda, a former stripper, was pregnant with Biggs’ child, which prevented him from being returned to the UK. In 1963 Ronnie Biggs asked Bruce Reynolds for a £500 loan so he could buy the home they were renting in Alpine Road, Redhill, Surrey. Bruce was unable to do so as he had invested heavily in the pre-Train Robbery, but offered Ronnie a place on the robbery, so that he could earn himself over £150,000. Ronnie accepted and days later placed a win double on the horses, they both won, Dameon at 9-1 and Rococco at 10-1, he had won £600 but due to the bookies paying-out limit, Ronnie received £500, the same amount he needed for the house deposit. He still took part in the Train Robbery. Charmian Biggs visited a fortune teller in Bognor Regis in 1962 and was impressed with the information, she begged Ronnie to do the same.