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Topic History of: Ronnie Biggs; a bigot's view
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Author	Message
mikemacca	veritas wrote: granted Biggs was no angel but he came from an era and culture that was riven with corruption. what a load of old drivel.
Al	I'd just like to point out that AL is not me (Al).
JC	Who says the main question? I say the main question. I'm not talking about official procedures, I was speaking from a personal point of view. From what I understand, Biggs played only a minor part in the train robbery, and it was not him who attacked the train driver. His worst crime seems to have been to escape from prison and successfully escape re-capture. Whether he is in prison or not he will still be receiving medical treatment funded by the "hard working and law abiding tax payer".
Innocent Accused	Well said veritas. I personally think he's done enough time for the crime,especially when you look at how long the origional sentence was,very excessive by modern standards. He's paying the price for embarrising the system for sure.A police thug is filmed attacking a man who died soon after,and he's not even taken into custody.If justice is what this is about then thieving is given 30 years,while punching and killing a stranger in a supermarket cue is only worth 4 years? Be a lot cheaper to pay the man a pittance of an old age pension,than the amount we spend on prison charges.Especially if he's having to go to hospital,and the costs of transport and guarding are added.
veritas	granted Biggs was no angel but he came from an era and culture that was riven with corruption. Biggs didn't actually cosh the driver did he ? One of the reasons he gave for wanting to return home was that he was missing the "green fields" of England though when he actually saw them was a mystey and he must have known he would be banged up immediately. However the establishment has been tough on many like Biggs and the originally sentence was so long what sane man wouldn't break out if jail ?. And jails then (and now) were government sactioned cesspits. Justice must be tempered with mercy or you keep sliding down the road where an innocent Brazillian electrician gets blasted to death and no-one is punished.