‘Great Train Robber’ Undergoes Medical Tests
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Ronnie Biggs, the ailing former fugitive serving a sentence for Britain’s “Great Train Robbery,” returned to prison after spending two nights in a London military hospital.
Biggs, who spent more than three decades on the run before returning to England in May, left Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he had received an emergency blood transfusion and undergone medical tests. He was taken back to the medical wing of top-security Belmarsh Prison in southeastern London.
Biggs, 72, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for his part in the notorious 1963 holdup of a mail train. He escaped from prison in 1965, fled abroad and settled in Brazil.
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