Last seen in public at the funeral of fellow Great Train Robber Bruce Reynolds in March, Biggs had suffered a number of strokes in recent years and passed away at a care home in North London early today. Although no linguist, Biggs was gregarious by nature, and he had no difficulty making friends, many of whom had him to stay in return for his expertise as a carpenter. We're just hoping he can live on for a while. Then, when I was about two, out of the blue an Argentinian film crew knocked on the door. He gave me an Ella Fitzgerald album, a modern jazz album and an Incredible String Band album – and it turned me towards the cooler way of living. Brazilian-born Michael Biggs said the fact that Jack Mills died seven years after the incident was not a direct result of being coshed over the head during the 1963 robbery. He spent the next nine years on the run after receiving plastic surgery in Paris, and eventually carved out a life for himself in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Having been issued with a one-way emergency passport by the Foreign Office, he landed at Northolt in Middlesex in a private jet chartered by the Sun, which paid his family £20,000 for the story. Biggs was prohibited from working as a condition of his staying in Brazil. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. He also raised money by selling T-shirts of himself and entertaining Japanese tourists. As well as sharing responsibility for coshing Mills, Biggs also profited from the spoils of the robbery, to the tune of nearly £150,000. He was a delinquent, his mother died and even before that he was off the rails. "It was hard for my father. After the police discovered his whereabouts in 1969, Biggs flew to Panama and then Brazil, finally settling in Rio de Janeiro in 1970 to live the "high life", famously drinking cocktails with bikini-clad Brazilian girls and forever boasting of his escape. The reason the authorities gave for keeping Biggs there for six years was that the prison was said to have the medical facilities necessary for his various illnesses. Not only was I the son of the Train Robber – and the son of a stripper – but, worst of all, I was the boy from the band. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. The precondition of his involvement was to find a train driver; a disillusioned driver working past retirement age who had contacted him to carry out some home improvements was recruited.

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