Ronnie Biggs

[emmie]

has died, apart from his friends family, will anyone mourn his passing...
the money they stole was according to the news, equivalent to 40 million today, not an inconsiderable sum, did it do them any good in the long term... being on the run, looking over your shoulder at every turn,

[youngmafbog]

Who paid for his treatment on his return ?

[douglas9401]

Thief dies, murmurs of 'legend' tumble from the slobbering maws of Raoul Moat fans.
Well rid of him.

[bazwillrun]

@douglas

seconded

he openly took the pizz out of this country whilst on the run

sympathy ?...pfffft

[Ken4155]

Just hope that 'Aunty' doesn't 'pull' the programme out of some warped mark of respect. The man deserves none.

[VHG]

>>>>doubt that silence at the football grounds would be appropriate

Amazing when people don't recognize sarcasm when they see it !

[mikey4444]

I heard the news on the Today program this morning and what a tidal wave of guff !

They played an interview done a few years ago, by Radio One. I didn't expect much as it, being Radio One but actually the DJ made a fair job of it.

Biggs waffled on for a bit about how it was "regrettable" that the train driver had died, that it was all a mistake and that he was awfully sorry.

He then went on to give no regrets whatsoever for stealing the money, and admitted that it sheer greed that drove him that day.

Biggs was just a common criminal, no more, no less. He didn't steal from the rich to give to the poor, he just stole from all of us, to make his life easier. The only reason that we are talking about him today is that the Media have long brown-nosed him for nice little sound bites. He wasn't a cheeky-chappie, or a Raffles, or a Robin Hood....he was just the normal filth that the criminal classes are made up of.

Rot in hell Biggs ....you deserve nothing less.

[mikey4444]

Good Morning Sqad.

I don't know what your old Dad for a living, but if he had been a train guard and a criminal had knocked him on the head, would you still have "sneaking admiration" for that criminal ?

[jno]

in the absence of evidence that he personally killed anyone (though he may have), I don't think I'll consign him to hell, rotting or otherwise. Nonetheless, my mourning this week is for Mandela and O'Tooke, not Biggs.

[jno]

O'Tooke? Must be a hobbit

[mikey4444]

Apparently it was Radio 5 live, not Radio One...my apologies to Radio One fans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nm1rg

[whiskeryron]

//
jno
O'Tooke? Must be a hobbit //

Or an Irish ''Rabbi''

WR.

[EcclesCake]

I also hope they show the two programmes tonight and tomorrow(?) I was looking forward to the two perspectives.

[Dodger666]

I wonder how many staff the BBC will be sending to cover the memorial service and funeral.

[lady-janine]

he was a criminal. we should have sent him straight back to brazil when he returned to this country for hospital treatment.

[emmie]

i don't revere him, he was a tea leaf, and did indeed work off his name, after the money ran out, the notorious Ronnie Biggs, not really.
Sadly some revere bad boys, but a man died, it may not have been at the scene, but he obviously was badly injured and never worked again..

[boingo]

Another greedy bully bites the dust. Jolly good.

[emmie]

to think they got 30 years for robbery,
you don't get that for first degree murder now, life seems to have become so cheap

[mikey4444]

Lady janine...I am a bit confused. Biggs committed his crime in Britain, was sent to jail in Britain but escaped to Brazil before his sentence was up. He eventually came home and spent a few more years in a British jail. Why should we have then sent him back to Brazil ?

[emmie]

so we wouldn't have to keep him at her majestys pleasure, or pay for his medical treatment perhaps, no idea other than that