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	Ronnie Biggs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ronald Arthur Biggs (born August 8, 1929 in London's tough East End), known commonly as Ronnie Biggs, is a British prisoner who is known for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963.
		In 1981 Biggs was kidnapped by a gang of adventurers who managed to smuggle him to Barbados, hoping to collect some reward from the British police.
		Biggs is nearly 80 years old, continues to need a tube for feeding and has difficulty speaking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ronnie_Biggs (851 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Gallery \| Ronnie Biggs
		Biggs arrives on a wheelchair at the Galeao international airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sunday May 6, 2001.
		Biggs, unable to speak after suffering a second severe stroke in 1999, now announces he wants to end his days in England.
		Biggs was part of a gang which robbed the Glasgow to London night mail train.
	www.guardian.co.uk /gall/0,8542,485296,00.html (386 words)

	RTE News - Home Office denies Biggs' deportation claims
		Mr Biggs, who is the son of Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs, said that the Home Office has refused to renew his visa.
		Ronnie Biggs, who has suffered a fourth stroke, is brain-damaged and unable to speak or eat.
		Ronnie Biggs was sentenced to 30 years for his part in the 1963 Great Train Robbery.
	www.rte.ie /news/2001/0804/biggs.html (280 words)

	Britain asks Brazil to send `Great Train Robbery' convict home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Biggs, 68, who has lived as a fugitive in Rio de Janeiro since 1970, said he was "hopeful but not confident" that he would give the British authorities the slip once again.
		Biggs' extradition became a possibility after Britain and Brazil ratified an extradition treaty in August, closing a legal loophole that had allowed Biggs to live in Rio de Janeiro as a celebrity figure for the past 27 years.
		Biggs was arrested in 1974 by a Scotland Yard detective but escaped extradition as a father of a child born in Brazil.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/10/30/brazil-biggs.3-0.html (610 words)

	Great Train Robbery Detective Jack Slipper
		Biggs had a minor role in the 1963 robbery of the Glasgow-to-London mail train, a flamboyant action that netted his gang the equivalent of more than $50 million today.
		Biggs was sentenced to 30 years in prison, which he viewed as unjust and vowed to escape.
		Biggs is in a prison hospital and still hopeful of a pardon.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/24/AR2005082402093_pf.html (770 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| London \| Ronnie Biggs 'hunger strike plan'
		Biggs, 76, is protesting because the Home Office has yet to decide on an application to free him on compassionate grounds.
		Biggs was sentenced to 30 years for his part in the robbery of a Glasgow to London mail train on August 8, 1963, when a 15-strong gang made off with £2.6m in used bank notes.
		Biggs returned to Britain voluntarily after over three decades on the run in Spain, Australia, and then Brazil, and was imprisoned in Belmarsh high security jail in south-east London.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/england/london/4258878.stm (298 words)

	Train robber Ronnie Biggs is hospitalized after suffering internal bleeding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ronnie Biggs, the ailing former fugitive serving a jail sentence for Britain's "Great Train Robbery," was hospitalized Friday after suffering internal bleeding.
		Biggs, who spent more than three decades on the run before returning to England in May, was taken from the top-security Belmarsh prison in southeast London to nearby Queen Elizabeth Hospital early Friday.
		Biggs, 72, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for his part in the 1963 holdup of a mail train.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/09/21/international1635EDT0766.DTL&type=printable (183 words)

	Biggs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Biggs Darklighter is a character in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
		Biggs is a character in the computer game, The Spoons.
		Biggs is a recurring character in the Final Fantasy series of role-playing games.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biggs (118 words)

	CNN - Great Train robber Biggs may elude arrest - August 12, 1997
		Biggs, now 68, was part of a 16-man gang that launched the biggest heist of its day when the robbers held up a Royal Mail train and fled with 2.6 million pounds, worth about $7 million at the time.
		Biggs was caught, sentenced to 30 years in prison, but scaled the walls of a London jail and escaped after serving 15 months.
		Biggs has hired Brazilian and British lawyers to fight for his freedom in the courts, and believes luck is on his side.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9708/12/train.robbery (441 words)

	God Save The Sex Pistols - Pistols
		Ronnie Biggs, the only one that got away on any permanent basis, is curiously enough, my second acquaintance among the Great Train Robbers.
		Biggs is the lead singer and lyricist of ‘No-One Is Innocent, A Punk Prayer by Ronnie Biggs’ a.
		Ronnie’s declared sensitivity seems rather pale when it turns out that he has re-written the lyrics of ‘Belsen Was A Gas’, which is to be released as the follow-up to ‘No-One Is Innocent’.
	www.philjens.plus.com /pistols/pistols/pistols_biggs.html (1922 words)

	Great train robber returns home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Biggs was flown to Britain from Brazil aboard a jet chartered by the tabloid Sun newspaper, which helped arrange for him to give himself up.
		Biggs was part of a 15-member gang that switched signals on the Glasgow-to-London rail line on Aug. 8, 1963, tricking a Royal Mail train into stopping in the pre-dawn darkness.
		Most of Biggs' share of the loot from the robbery was spent on his escape, plastic surgery to change his appearance and years of high life in Rio.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001-05-07-trainrobber.htm (756 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / Brazil Still Lures Fugitives as Biggs' Safe Haven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Biggs, now 75, was part of a gang that robbed the Glasgow to London mail train in 1963 -- at the time the biggest robbery Britain had seen.
		Biggs was eventually caught and jailed, but escaped after 15 months first to Australia and then to Brazil, which then did not have an extradition treaty with Britain.
		Biggs lived a playboy's life in Rio for 30 years, hosting garden barbecue parties, jamming with famous musicians like the Sex Pistols and even making film appearances.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/03/18/brazil_still_lures_fugitives_as_biggs_safe_haven (530 words)

	About Ronald Biggs, a very distasteful man.
		Biggs was always bragging about how smart he was ("the man that got away") and how the crime was committed without violence.
		Anyway this woman said that she had heard that Biggs enjoyed something of a celebrity status in Rio, and she wanted everybody to know that Biggs and/or his buddies had savagely beaten her father during the robbery, so much that he was disabled for life.
		Biggs did have a restaurant up in Santa Teresa (I don't know if he actually owned it), he did board British ships and then call reporters and there was a very sad letter in the "Jornal do Brasil" from a lady in England about what Biggs and company did to her father.
	www.brazilbrazil.com /biggs.html (2936 words)

	RONNIE BIGGS
		Biggs was not personally involved in violence during the robbery, did not cause injury to anyone, and was not accused of such.
		I would like to apologise unreservedly to the family of Ronnie Biggs and particularly his son Michael Biggs for any offence or hurt that my incorrect statements may have caused.
		The article was intended not as a direct attack on Ronnie Biggs or Michael Biggs but instead as a satire on some newspapers' portrayal of alleged criminals as heroes.
	www.tobyslater.com /articles/thoughts/z010516.html (347 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Ronnie Biggs, the Great Train robber, could "die at any moment" after contracting the superbug MRSA while having hospital treatment, his solicitors said yesterday.
		They made a new plea for Biggs, who cannot speak after suffering several strokes and a series of minor heart attacks, to be freed from prison on compassionate grounds.
		Biggs was visited in hospital on Sunday by his son Michael, who was said to be alarmed by his father's decline.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/11/nbiggs11.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/11/ixhome.html (351 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Ronnie Biggs: the album
		Biggs was introduced to an American bass player, Bruce Henry, who turned the Briton into an unlikely muse.
		Ronnie never sang, although he is credited as "inspiration and storyteller".
		The music is a fusion of experimental jazz, blues and funk, with echoes of Brazilian styles such as tropicalia and bossa nova.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1294718,00.html (374 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Ronnie Biggs
		A PLEA by the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs to be released from prison on compassionate grounds has been turned down by Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary.
		RONNIE Biggs, one of the "Great Train Robbers", was back in jail last night after being treated in...
		RONNIE Biggs's son has accused prison authorities of treating the train robber in an "inhumane...
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=921 (462 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Biggs heading for home
		Biggs, sporting a cowboy hat, had earlier arrived at the airport in Rio in a van emblazoned with The Sun newspaper's logo.
		There have been no photographs of Biggs, frail after a series of strokes in recent years, since it was announced he was to fly home.
		Biggs is hoping for leniency and compassion from the authorities but Scotland Yard have confirmed he will be arrested on his return and taken into custody.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_1315000/1315285.stm (594 words)

	My beloved dad, the train robber - FeaturesWorld - www.theage.com.au
		Biggs, now 73, is a very sick man. It's strange that Biggs is known as the "great train robber" because if there is anything he's not great at, it is robbing.
		Biggs is reliant on legal aid to challenge the criminal cases review commission's ruling that the sentence he received in 1963 is a fair one.
		The former police chief Sir Robert Mark wrote in his memoirs that Biggs had "added a rare and welcome touch of humour to the history of crime" and that he was the most memorable figure to undergo banishment since Henry IV in 1398.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/03/1075776058745.html?from=storyrhs (2529 words)

	CNN.com - Ronnie Biggs: 'The last gentleman crook' - May 7, 2001
		Between 1949 and 1963 Biggs was regularly involved in criminal activity - he served several jail sentences - although he also made money legally working as a painter and decorator.
		On August 8, 1963 - Biggs' birthday - he was one of a gang of 16 who held up the Glasgow-to-London mail train, escaping with a record haul of £2,631,784 ($3,782,046).
		Biggs suffered a minor stroke in March 1998, since when his health has gradually been declining.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/05/07/biggs.profile (629 words)

	Transpontine: Free Ronnie Biggs
		Former great train robber Ronnie Biggs is apparently seriously ill in Belmarsh prison.
		Biggs is still a criminal and not a prisoner of conscience though.
		I suspect, perhaps, that the presumed glamour of old style crooks like Biggs, Mad Frankie Fraser and all the other scum, is what inspires people to want to spray things on walls like ‘free Ronnie Biggs’ while, in reality, there’s no glamour in what they do at all.
	transpont.blogspot.com /2005/08/free-ronnie-biggs.html (735 words)

	‘Great Train Robber’ seeks release - World News - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ronnie Biggs and 11 other gang members robbed a mail train in 1963 and made off with the modern equivalent of $55 million.
		Biggs, who cannot eat or speak properly after several strokes, is in the hospital wing of London’s top security Belmarsh prison, where he is serving the rest of a 30-year sentence he was given in 1964 for one of the most notorious heists.
		Biggs is currently subjected do not comply with the law and are unnecessary given his inability to speak, eat or walk any distance,” said one his lawyers Kristen Bender.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5651144 (662 words)

	BBC - Crime Case Closed - Great Train Robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was the youngest member of the gang and a friend of Bruce Reynolds, he was in the gang largely because of his connections to a retired train driver.
		As the most inexperienced criminal, Biggs' friendship with Reynolds was the only thing that eased the doubts that the rest of the gang might have had about him.
		As a very minor figure in the robbery itself, Ronnie Biggs gained more than any actual profit from his crime, he gained notoriety as the public face of this infamous affair.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/caseclosed/greattrainrobbery.shtml (1775 words)

	CNN - No extradition for Britain's 'great train robber' - Nov. 13, 1997
		Biggs was convicted, and had served 15 months of his sentence when he escaped from prison in 1965.
		He treats tourists to the "Ronnie Biggs Experience," which is basically a barbecue and beers on his patio.
		Biggs says he has no money left from his famous crime, but that he also has no regrets about his odd fame and lack of fortune.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9711/13/brazil.train.robber (568 words)

	Press Complaints Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Having established that various payments had been made to Biggs and his associates - at least one of whom was a convicted criminal who had served his sentence - the primary issues for the Commission to consider were whether it was satisfied that the payments were made in the public interest and were "necessary".
		The substantial question the Commission had to consider was whether the return of Ronnie Biggs to face the Courts in Britain was in the public interest - or was contrary to the public interest.
		Third, the Commission had to consider whether the payments themselves and the return of Biggs to justice could, in any way, be said to have glorified the crimes of which he was convicted three decades ago.
	www.pcc.org.uk /reports/details.asp?id=283 (1665 words)

	VIEWPOINTS
		It is against all the principles of the true English person to subject Michael Biggs to the emotional torture of the sadistic threat that should he leave this country he may not be allowed to return and say goodbye to his father, or attend his funeral.
		As Michael with such heart-rending emotion points out Ronnie Biggs has been forced to live for 32 years in Brazil in a state of freedom that in reality was a form of bondage.
		Despite the degradation imposed on Ronnie Biggs by the Brazilian authorities, probably at the behest of the inhuman British authorities, Ronnie has never badmouthed Brazil, and has only expressed his grateful thanks to the country that gave him sanctuary albeit with torturous restrictions on his freedom.
	www.madfrankiefraser.co.uk /viewpoints/views52.htm (1763 words)

	Scotland Yard detective Jack Slipper dies - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Biggs fled to Spain, had plastic surgery to change his appearance, spent several years in Australia, and settled in Brazil in 1970.
		Biggs eventually returned to Britain in 2001, in failing health after a series of strokes, and was jailed in Belmarsh Prison.
		Biggs' son, Michael, said the family was saddened by Slipper's death.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/24/scotland_yard_detective_jack_slipper_dies?mode=PF (479 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| A lifetime on the run
		It is more than 37 years since Biggs and his gang stole £2.6m from the Glasgow to London mail train, but despite the passage of time, he has seldom been out of the news.
		Biggs initially fled to Spain, with his wife Charmaine and two sons, Farley and Chris.
		Biggs cheated arrest again in 1977 when he went on-board a British frigate - docked in Rio - for a drinks party.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1310134.stm (656 words)

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