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Best Regards - Taggy |
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The thing with Biggs Roy is that whilst the intial sentance handed out was perhaps a bit longer than it could have been. He never served, or attempted to serve the sentance, and never showed any remorse afterwards, which some of the others who did serve the time did. He would have got out just as soon as they did if he hadn't broken out, and perhaps he could have shown people then that he was capable of turning over a new leaf. Buster Edwards for example used to run a flower stall at Waterloo Station for many years! But Biggs just gloated in his notorieity and stuck two fingers up at the justice system and also the rest of the British Public really! Best Regards - Taggy |
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I'll mention again that as recently as a few months ago he said in an interview he felt no remorse, and that by not doing so it somehow added to his noteriety. You do the crime, and you do the time, if that's how you chose to live your life. I think they were probably lucky. People have died from less severe attacks than being coshed on the head with an iron bar. A few years earlier, and only down to luck that the train driver didn't die, they could have been facing the gallows. We all have to live with the consequences of our actions. For those unwilling to work decently and legally, providing for their families, and for society in general, via the paying of tax to fund the welfare system, they must face the consequences that crime doesn't always pay. Although the tax other people have paid will provide the medical care to prolong your life when you're ill, and you've spent all the proceeds of your criminal career. |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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For executing what was then the biggest robbery in British history, I suppose a sentence of thirty years was a risk they took, when they decided to go ahead with this audacious crime. If he'd have done his time, and shown any remorse, Biggs could have been a free man since the mid seventies, as no one served longer than ten years for the crime. His choice. Very often those attracted to a 'career' in crime chose the easiest route in life, rather than knuckling down and working hard for a living, like the vast majority of law abiding members of society. He's certainly not some sort of folk hero to me. He wasn't playing Robin Hood, who was stealing to support a load of poor orphans. He was in it for himself, because he thought it was easier than working legally. His choice. |
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