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The couple went on to have another son, Farley. Why would they want to keep him in for 10 years? He then slipped into Australia with his wife Charmian and their two sons, Nicky and Christopher. Ronnie Biggs said his share of the haul had been 147,000 British criminal Ronnie Biggs, who took part in the 1963 Great Train Robbery, has died aged 84, his spokeswoman has confirmed. Biggs fled to Paris where he underwent plastic surgery to disguise his appearance. Michael explains he is not a football agent but a consultant; he also has a number of other business interests that he feels he can concentrate on now that his father is free. In 1981, a group of British mercenaries tried to kidnap Biggs in hope of collecting the reward Scotland Yard had posted for his capture. "I was only six years old and speaking on the telly, saying I wanted my dad back; saying the Queen wanted him but I wanted him more. But Biggss desire to come home wasnt just that he needed NHS care, though, he said at the time. The bid ended in chaos, though, with their boat breaking down and the whole group being rescued by the Barbados coastguard. He didn't want to be remembered as a sick old man who died in Brazil, a lonely old train robber." He'd had two strokes, couldn't speak, could hardly move. [48], On 12 January 2012, ITV Studios announced it had commissioned a five-part drama, Mrs Biggs, to be based around the life of Biggs's wife Charmian, played by Sheridan Smith and Biggs by Daniel Mays. WebRonald Arthur Biggs (8 August 1929 18 December 2013) was an English criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. The first wife of Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs has died aged 75, just a year after the criminal husband with whom she went into hiding in Australia also passed away. Michael, who visits his father daily, doesn't even know whether Ronnie will make it to Christmas. 
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