Their aim was to bring him back to Britain. In March 1981, Biggs was kidnapped in Rio by a gang of adventurers and smuggled to Barbados by boat. In 1978, Biggs made a record, No One is Innocent, with punk rock group the Sex Pistols. He became a familiar figure in the Lord Jim pub in Ipanema, and around his neighbourhood in Santa Teresa, where he would invite paying guests to hear his stories as a way to make money after the robbery stash ran out. But the Yard's efforts to get Biggs back to Britain were foiled by Brazilian law. In 1974, he was tracked down in Rio by the Daily Express reporter Colin MacKenzie – and shortly afterwards by Detective Inspector Jack Slipper of Scotland Yard. He went on to build a new life for himself as jobbing carpenter under the name Michael Haynes. For several months he ran a boarding house in Adelaide, and in June 1966 his wife Charmian and two children joined him, also on false passports. While other prisoners created a diversion in the exercise yard, Biggs scaled a wall with a rope ladder and dropped on to a furniture van parked alongside.Īfter a brief stopover in Paris for £40,000-worth of plastic surgery to change his appearance, he travelled to Australia where he adopted the name Terry King, and later Terry Cook. On 8 July 1965, he made a daring escape from Wandsworth prison in London.
Sentenced to 30 years behind bars on 15 April 1964, Biggs was to serve just 15 months in prison. The gang shared out the proceeds at isolated Leatherslade Farm – Biggs taking about £148,000 – but thereafter things started to go badly wrong, with nearly all of the gang members being rounded up by the police. The hold-up, at Sears Crossing in Buckinghamshire, was planned in minute detail and, initially at least, was a spectacular success.
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His role was to find a driver for the train, but the driver he found had problems with the controls and the train's legitimate driver, 57-year-old Mills, was coshed with iron bars and forced to move the train. He was transferred to the high-security Belmarsh prison to continue his sentence.īiggs had joined the gang that held up the Royal Mail night train from Glasgow to London on his 34th birthday. Photograph: DAVID CAIRNS / Rex Features/DAVID CAIRNS/Rex Features Ronnie Biggs with son Michael and his wife and grandchild in Brazil in 2000.
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