Great Train Robbery

Every country has its favorite criminal history, which willingly write and make movies. In England, it is perhaps, Great Train Robbery - Robbery mail train from Glasgow to London August 8, 1963.
The audience impressed with the quality of planning and preparation operations. In the area of ​​the railway bridge Bride thieves cut the wires of traffic lights and lit a red light from a 6-volt battery. The train stopped, one of the drivers went on the road to call the dispatcher line phone.
Burglars broke into the cockpit of an electric driver resisted, he was hit on the head with a rod. After that, crowbars opened the door of the car number 3, where the transported values ​​and a large sum of money. The cars did not have an internal radio, because they were taken from the reserve. Rather suspicious.

It was not clear as well as the robbers heard about sending money to this day. Drivers forced to stop the train right on the bridge. Below, on the road, waiting for a big truck. A gang of robbers, 15 people, half an hour cash loaded into the truck. It fits over a hundred large bags, just two and a half million pounds, about 40 million in today's money.

In a roundabout way, they came to the shelter penned on a quiet farm. Divided the money and departed. The police acted quickly and in a few months 9 out of 15 participants were arrested. Mugging pulled for a period of 30 years.

One of the robbers, Ronnie Biggs, was imprisoned in the famous Vondvortskuyu prison. After serving 15 months in July 1965, he ran down a rope ladder a waiting van.

Times were naive, passport paper. Biggs and his wife and children managed to escape to Paris. There he bought a new ksivu, had plastic surgery. An entirely new personality flew to Australia, where he was soon joined the family. Moved from town to town, changed jobs.

In his footsteps were journalists and Interpol. By the 69 th year of Biggs, once again change the name, passenger liner sailed from Melbourne to Panama, and from there by plane to Brazil.

Brazil he was not chosen by chance, this country did not have a contract with the United Kingdom on extradition of criminals. In Brazil, he became a celebrity. Newspapers wrote about a daring robbery and Ronnie Biggs, good-looking man and a great charisma, became the hero of a real detective story.

With his first wife relationship upset, he started up a Brazilian friend who soon gave birth. The appearance of the baby has further strengthened the legal position of our hero. According to the laws of the country, the father of the Brazilian child had full protection.

Biggs lived in Rio de Janeiro, sauntered down the beach. His life, however, was not caramel. He had no right to be in the public bar after 10 pm, he was forbidden to work. At its hacienda Biggs arranged reception, mostly tourists from Britain, fed them barbecue, talking about his former glory.

In Rio sold coffee mugs and T-shirts with his name. In 1977, he was even invited on board the British naval brig "Danae". The sailors of the Royal Navy wanted to get acquainted with the legendary man. Biggs risked the ship - it's part of the British territory, but nothing happened, and he was arrested.

A group of former British soldiers in April 1981, kidnapped him, hoping to receive the award, announced by the British police. However, the vessel on which the soldiers were going to take him home, fell off the coast of Barbados. Broken engine. Barbados Coast Guard towed the vessel to the port. In Barbados, with the UK also did not have an extradition treaty, and Ronnie Biggs again got away with it.

In 1997, the United Kingdom and Brazil finally ratified the treaty, and the British government formally requested the extradition of Ronnie Biggs. He came to the aid of the British lawyer, whose efforts have achieved resolutions of the Supreme Court of Brazil. Biggs got the right to live in the country until the end of his life.

In Biggs, as I understand it, there were two problems. Lack of money and homesickness. On hearing this, the newspaper "San" offered him a fee of 20,000 for the exclusive right to publish his story. And the story is this - Biggs returns home to prison, was serving the remaining 28 years.

Oddly enough, it happened in May 2011. Our hero from the ladder under the white ruchenki escorted to jail.
Health Biggs was in poor condition, he constantly wrote a petition for clemency, but he refused.

Finally, after a few strokes, he could neither walk nor talk, the authorities reluctantly released the 80-year-old Biggs on his birthday, August 8, 2009.

He was often ill, lying at different hospitals today, December 18, 2013, died in a nursing home in Barnet, north London.

Biggs was 84 years old.

There were numerous books, articles and movies about it.

I suspect that another will write and shoot.

These colorful characters appear every day.
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