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Originally Posted by junetta
With hindsight I expect he would agree with you Rindy. I might be one of those 'oldies' who looks at it differently but he was a fairly young man at the time and thirty years in prison must have seemed such a long road to go down.
I was only fifteen or so at the time and remember watching the news and comparing it to 'Bonanza' or some such programme we watched in those days. It was even more exciting when he escaped.
All in all, it isn't going to matter a damn in the end as he will never leave his hospital bed alive and he's suffered in his own way for years.
I so wish we had internet when Bonnie and Clyde ran amok..........what a good thread that would have been!
June x
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I was wrong to post the 'old codgers' comment. Though there is a divide of opinion, which might depend on age, and how you view the crimes.
A thirty year sentence would seem a long stretch to a younger man, but if you've decided that violent crime seems an easier path in life, than working legitimately for a living, that's a consequence of your choice.
Unofficially the powers that be had long ago given up trying to extradite him, and finish his sentence. After many costly and futile attempts, made nigh on impossible when he fathered a child who was a Brazilian national.
He could have remained free for the rest of his days, if he'd have stayed in Brazil. He knew even though he was an old, sick man, he'd be arrested as soon as he stepped off the plane.
That was his choice, because he needed medical care he could no longer afford in Brazil.
Choices, and consequences.
A life of crime will probably mean time spent inside a jail. Fact.
A flight back to this country, to make use of the free health service, meant certain imprisonment. Fact.
His choices.