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Originally Posted by cashman
i'm certainly not misty eyed about biggs he was a career criminal simple as! my point is simple the sentences the train robbers got where well out of kelter wi what was the order of the day fer murderers n other serious crimes, i have already stated the reason fer it, you young uns seem too misty eyed to grasp that. n as far the argument about the postcode lottery fer treatment thats summat i have gone through personally, n also summat far worse at the same time, it makes no differance to my view about those sentences it didn't back in 60s n it don't now.  |
As stated none of them served longer than ten years in clink.
Also they knew the severity of the sentences that might be dealt to them if they were caught, when they planned their crime.
You've already stated that the sentences were harsher because it was public money, a fact they'd also have known at the time, yet they still went ahead with it.
Hitting someone with an iron bar isn't an exact science. They, as well as the driver were lucky he wasn't killed, and the sentences harsher still.