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What a great start in life. In seven of the robbers involved in the train heist just outside Leighton Buzzard, Bucks. Mr Justice Edmund Davies said it would be positively evil if leniency were exercised. When a great crime was committed, he said, it called for great punishment, "not for the purpose of mere retribution, but to show that others similarly tempted should be brought to a sharp realisation that crime does not pay.

Taken together with long sentences meted out to five other members of the gang, the total added up to years. But Michael has now criticised the sentences, claiming they backfired on the Government who wanted to make an example of the robbers. Michael said: "The Great Train Robbery will continue to be an incredible part of history. Even though it was a crime and it was wrong, it's part of British folklore.

I just hope newer generations review how sentences were being handed out and the way the criminal system is screwed up. Society can benefit from looking at history.

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Celebs TV Films. US Celebrity News Strictly. Mirror Choice. Follow us on social. When the police discovered the hideout they found the game covered in fingerprints which eventually led to their arrest. Biggs, a one-time petty crook who spent just two years in the RAF before being thrown out, became an anti-hero who stuck two fingers up at British authorities unable to extradite him from South America.

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But to many he was a member of a violent gang which coshed innocent train driver Jack Mills and left him for dead and then dined out on his notoriety. He sang with the Sex Pistols, was seen on the grid at a Grand Prix and seemingly taunted the British police from his beach-front flat. Biggs divorced his first British wife Charmian Powell in after meeting stripper Raimunda de Castro, Michael's Brazilian mother, to avoid extradition.

He was snatched from a restaurant in Rio on March 16 and smuggled into Barbados. Despite an effort to extradite him back to the UK, the authorities dismissed the case and he was sent back to Brazil. Michael - then a baby-faced boy - made an emotional TV appeal for his safe return and it launched him into a career as a pop star. Michael, who now works in forestry and lives in north east Brazil, still enjoys celebrity status with a TV show dedicated to music.

He said: "My life was thrust into the media from the day I was born. My dad was a train robber, my mum was a stripper, my godfather was a forger and my godmother was a porn actress. What a great start in life. In seven of the robbers involved in the train heist just outside Leighton Buzzard, Bucks. Mr Justice Edmund Davies said it would be positively evil if leniency were exercised.

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When a great crime was committed, he said, it called for great punishment, "not for the purpose of mere retribution, but to show that others similarly tempted should be brought to a sharp realisation that crime does not pay. Taken together with long sentences meted out to five other members of the gang, the total added up to years.

In that time Charmian Biggs had seen her husband only once, for an hour, the night before he embarked on a passenger liner using a falsified passport. She said she thought when he departed she might never see him again, and shortly afterwards was forced to cope alone with the death of their eldest son in a car accident. However in she was flown by the Australian media to Rio de Janeiro after Biggs' arrest.

I was in on a prison visit with him, when he's telling me, I want you to divorce me. And I was weeping, so upset. Despite Biggs fathering a child in Brazil and remarrying, Charmian stayed in contact with him and is not bitter about their relationship. In I went back to England to see my mother. I'd spoken to Ron on the phone and he suggested that I go home to Australia via Rio.

And it was a very pleasant two-week holiday," she said. You have to have the lows to appreciate the highs. Driver Jack Mills was hit over the head and injured it has been said he never fully recovered and died seven years. They had a baby and wanted to buy a house and so asked for help from a friend, Bruce Reynolds, one of the train robbery masterminds.

Biggs was soon recruited into the plan, unbeknown to Charmian.

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It was also the day his brother Jack died and Charmian called the police to track Ronnie down, thinking he was tree felling. The call was later to destroy his alibi. This is it! Film footage of his trial shows a glamorous Charmian arriving at court. She sobbed as he was sentenced. But as the ITV drama reveals she was seeing another man while he was in prison and fell pregnant.

She was hoping for a new life but discovered Ronnie was planning an escape from Wandsworth prison.