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Prunepicker
12-18-2013, 11:40 AM
From The BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25426914)
British criminal Ronnie Biggs, who took part in the 1963 Great Train
Robbery, has died aged 84, his spokeswoman has confirmed.

Biggs was part of the gang which escaped with £2.6m from the Glasgow
to London mail train on 8 August 1963.

He was given a 30-year sentence but escaped from Wandsworth prison
in 1965.