Legendary hero or just another common crook?

[tbone]

So, Ronnie Biggs is dead, do we care?
Should this man have achieved the lengedary status that he did and for what?
Mr Biggs was a small time crook who played a minor role in a large robbery.
Yes the robbery itself is legendary, and so it should be, but what of the people behind it?
We can name Buster Edwards (another bit part player) & Charlie Wilson who both fall into the same catagory as Mr Biggs, common criminals, but surely if anyone should be remembered for the crime it has to be the guys that planned it.
Mr Biggs argued that his sentence was extreme, and maybe that was the case, but others recieved similar and served less than half. He decided he would escape and live on the run, fine, his choice, but then by sticking two fingers up (metaphorically and actually) at our criminal & justice systems was just wrong and showed him for what he was.
Mr Biggs achieved his `fame` by living openly in a country he could not be extradited from after fathering a child there, the best reason in the world to have kids!
He should have stayed and rotted there, but in his hour of need he returned `home` to a country he had no respect for.
His passing should have gone un noticed by most of us, but his name still sells newspapers.
By posting this, I too am bringing his death to your attention and spreading his noteriaty, so I guess, like him or dislike him, you cant get away from him.

[spanners]

there was a lot more people involved  in the planning of the job and of the distrebution of the money that dont seam to have been publicaly named and escaped justice one way or another .
some had their assets seized and sold off  ( i know this as years ago i accuired a tractor that had been one of the assets ) its original owner  died of old age on the isle of man 
his daughter used to come back to ,,,every once in a while,,, to the family property a stately hall near castleton in the peak district, up untill she sold it off around 10yrs ago.

i wonder what she,s living of on the isle of man 

[TwistedPatience]

Bruce Reynolds was the mastermind behind it.