Shame that Biggs is referred to as a hero on the same day Harry Patch is buried!!!
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Ronnie Biggs a true British hero
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Huple
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When is Harry Roberts coming out ?
Box of Frogs
Zamoras Left Boot
OK - I'll bite. I fail to see what Ronnie Biggs has done to be regarded a British hero. A prize 
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more like.jmsc
New member
The 'Great Train Robbery' was a great film.
What a lot of children on here don't realise
is that a good man, Jack Mills was murdered
in this heist.
I care more Mr Mills wife and children than I
do for Biggs!
What a lot of children on here don't realise
is that a good man, Jack Mills was murdered
in this heist.
I care more Mr Mills wife and children than I
do for Biggs!
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
The Great St Trinians Train Robbery was even better.
desprateseagull
New member
wtf? how on earth can someone known ONLY for his part in a brutal train robbery, escaping from prison, living in exile and comfort in Brazil, having a child to escape extradition laws, but then only coming back to UKL for medical help when his money ran out, bed considered a 'hero'.
villian. end of. and soon.
villian. end of. and soon.
Actually, he died of leukaemia in 1970.
Bish Bosh
Active member
There are things in every culture which are truly shit. In the UK one of the few is this tendency to regard scumbags like Biggs as 'cheeky chappies', making films about them etc. Go on 'he loved hs mum' and so on. Don't start me off on the Krays either.
My sympathies are with the late Jack Mills and his family. Honest man who never mssed a day's work before August 8th 1963.
There that's me 'on the hook'!
My sympathies are with the late Jack Mills and his family. Honest man who never mssed a day's work before August 8th 1963.
There that's me 'on the hook'!
I know you're fishing, but why is he a 'hero'? Just interested, like.
What makes you think he's gay?
Bish Bosh
Active member
Probably been f***ed in the showers a few times over the last 40 plus years mind!
Sorry, but what are you babbling on about? I am no fan of Biggs and would rather see him die surrounded by prison guards. But Mr Mills was not murdered during the heist. He died of leukaemia in 1970, 6 years later.
severnside gull
Well-known member
Tragic that he is too ill to be able to f*** off back to Brazil and die with his family around him
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
He never recovered from being hit over ther head with an iron bar during the robbery., whilst due to the time being hit and him dying it could not be tried as murder it was a contributiing factor to his death. As in, had he not been hit on the head with an iron bar, he would not have died of his condition. this from the medical experts at the time.
goring dazza
New member
Hang the bastard
NMH
Banned
Most people work all their lives, to just make a living wage.
Biggs just stole.
Not a hero, a total villain, deservedly banged up and needs to serve his sentence - especially considering he managed to have his best years living off the dough and the fame, in the sunshine, in one of the most beautiful (looking) cities in the world.
Biggs just stole.
Not a hero, a total villain, deservedly banged up and needs to serve his sentence - especially considering he managed to have his best years living off the dough and the fame, in the sunshine, in one of the most beautiful (looking) cities in the world.
Glees
The Boobie Watcher
:mendoza:
You are right in that he never recovered from the trauma of the robbery but his actual death was by leukaemia and the verdict at his inquest was that this was unrelated to the robbery. Tragic but it is better not to let urban myth get in the way of the facts. Either way, Biggs should rot in jail.