“I THINK THAT RONNIE IS CLEVERLY PLAYING THE SYSTEM.HE DOES A BUNK TO EUROPE UNTIL HES AN OLD MAN THEN GIVES HIMSELF UP WHEN HIS HEALTH STARTS FAILING IN THE HOPE HED BE LET OUT OF PRISON AFTER SERVING A VERY SHORT TERM ,TO DIE.THIS MAN WAS PART OF A VIOLENT GANG THAT COMMITED A ROBBERY.TO MY KNOWLEDGE THEY TOOK NO PITY ON THE INOCENT PEOPLE THEY CROSSED PATHS WITH WHEN COMMITING THIS CRIME ,SO WHY SHOULD HE BE GIVEN PITY NOW?”

“What? who is worried now? he is too old to even to walk let alone rob another train, this is funny.”

“he done is time let him go now he's a legend to us all .”

“I worked in the large Grand Hotel in Leicester in 1963. For the life of me I am unable to find reference anywhere as to one of those arrested at daybreak there for this robbery. He was actually staying in a posh room. He, nor his ladyfriend got breakfast that day (in bed). And I didn¿t get a tip! I remember one of the 6 receptionists later having to give evidence at Aylesbury. Please can someone put me out of my misery? Which robber?
And yes, Ronnie Biggs it can be said is more popular and honest than most politicians! Free him and tax him for any money he makes on his publicity/ books, appearances etc. MP¿s need it!
The gang made rather a fool of the Police, and the Establishment, and Judge Davies did not miss his chance to ¿send a message¿ to the country.”

“The sad thing is, the man making the ultimate decision as to if and when Ronnie Biggs is released is none other that Jack Straw.

As we all know, Mr Straw is an MP. Therefore we can also safely assume that as an MP, he can not pretend to be honest and upstanding. Well he can pretend, but that's all.

On July 20, 2008, two months after learning that MPs¿ expenses would be made public, Mr Straw sent a handwritten note to the fees office confessing that he had spotted an error and enclosing a cheque to refund the money.

In the two-page note, marked ¿in confidence¿, Mr Straw admitted that since 2004, when he was foreign secretary, he had filed expenses claims for council tax at his constituency house in Blackburn, Lancs, at the full rate, receiving between £807 and £943 a year.

At the same time, he had been paying his local authority half that amount by registering the property as his second home and claiming a discount in his council tax as a result. He wrote: ¿I have been checking my claims since 04, and I have realised that my claims for Council Tax have been incorrect.¿

Mr Straw detailed how much he had claimed, then noted that due to a ¿50% zero occupancy discount¿ the actual amount paid was ¿significantly lower¿.

¿I am sorry about this,¿ he wrote. ¿I am afraid that the reality of life over the last few years is that I¿ve often had to complete the claims in marginal time and without recourse to all the records.¿

With the note, he included a cheque for £1,395.88 to compensate for the over-claims.

A month later, he realised that his sums were out, and wrote to the fees office: ¿Sorry about that too ¿ accountancy does not appear to be my strongest suit.¿

He sent another cheque, for £136.27, which he hoped would ¿settle the matter¿.


AND THIS MAN IS ALLOWED TO SIT IN JUDGEMENT ON RONNIE BIGGS?”

“Let the poor man live out his days in freedom,he stole money just like most MPs have”

“He should be let free - because we have the same birthday.”

“leave mr biggs where he is, get the other criminals digging holes and making bricks to build more prisons , therefore making them have less time on their hands to need to watch tv and dvds, learn a trade even, where these prisons should be built ,should be decided voulantary by repenting politicians who are serving sentences for fraudulantly claiming expenses,when the prisons have been completed boats should be built to repatriate any foreign criminal to the country of their birth”

“Let this old ill man go free if he commited this crime today he would probaly get 8 yrs and out in 5, hes a saint compared to what crims do today.”

“I love this site, so many opinions, everyone thinks they are right, memories either faded, or weren't even around then.
Forget other crimes, MP's exes, paedophiles, Fred West, etc etc.
AT THE TIME, this was the biggest crime story ever. So the trial and outcome were based on the facts at the time.
John, you should be a politician, as Wikipedia goes into much more detail than you say (convenient for your argument, till we realise the REAL truth).
The gang spent ages befriending train drivers, and were meticulous with their planning.
They also had two Land Rovers with the same fake number plates, just so that any witnesses stories could not be relied upon (wouldn't you feel a burke if you saw the incident but the Police didn't believe you?).
Also, the amount, £2.6m in 1963, flamin heck, that's a fortune, even today, but in today's value would be nearly £40m.
Why cosh someone that's no risk to you?
How do you know how hard to hit that person unless you have done it before?
All about Biggs history has been said before, but I ask you this, if the Government is thinking of sending a mother to jail just for wanting her son to have a good education, why should Biggs go free?
You should be asking, why on earth the Parole Board said he should be freed, then this wouldn't have even made the inside pages of the Essex Advertiser.
The risk to Society, by the way for those that can't see through the 'romance' is that it will be a deterrent to other crims, not that he will go out and mug some poor old dear, though come to think of it, he just might...................................!!!!
Actually, I think he should go free, to save our money on his keep, and the 'leeches' that suck the blood of a ridiculous justice system, again our money, where he will be appealing for ever.
Anyway, 'Driver, stoptheworld........”