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Ronnie Biggs, the old Great Train Robber, has been moved from his prison cell to a hospital in Norwich, England, as he has pneumonia.

His son Michael has issued another appeal for his father’s release;

“My father is a very sick man who will be 80 this year,” said Mr Biggs, who lives in London. “Why don’t they just show some compassion and free him so he can be with his family? Why waste taxpayers’ money now? My dad isn’t a danger to anyone.”

Back in 2007, Biggs himself issued a statement appealing for release on compassionate grounds;

“I am an old man and often wonder if I truly deserve the extent of my punishment. I have accepted it and only want freedom to die with my family and not in jail. I hope Mr Straw decides to allow me to do that. I have been in jail for a long time and I want to die a free man. I am sorry for what happened. It has not been an easy ride over the years. Even in Brazil I was a prisoner of my own making.”

Biggs undeniably did, whilst on the run, clearly ‘take the piss’ out of the British authorities for years on end (not least by making this ‘No One Is Innocent’ video with the Sex Pistols) and was thus guaranteed to wind up in a world of trouble when he returned to the UK, but hasn’t he done enough time now? I’d say so.

I don’t really have any great sympathy for the old blagger as far as him getting a hard time when he returned, and nor would he expect any – he is a proper old-time criminal, but enough is enough now, no?

It’s not like he was one of the Kray brothers, after all.

Have a heart. Let him out.

Want to help? There is a petition you can sign for Biggs release.

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