The Ronnie Biggs Red Tape

While watching BBC News 24 last night, I saw an interview between Gavin Esler and Michael Biggs, son of great train robber Ronnie Biggs.

Biggs Junior is still on the whinge about wanting his convicted criminal father released from jail. We've covered this greeting faced tosser before here. In case you don't know, in 1963 Biggs was part of a gang which robbed the Glasgow to London night mail train. The group got away with £2.6m - at the time the biggest robbery Britain had ever seen. Biggs's personal share of the haul was £147,000 - worth about £1.6m in today's terms. Train driver Jack Mills, 57, was coshed with iron bars during the robbery. He never returned to work and never made a full recovery. He died in 1970.

In July 1965 Biggs escaped from Wandsworth prison fleeing to Spain with his family, spending two months there after having plastic surgery to change his appearance. Moving on to Australia and then Brazil before returning to Britain in 2001 a very sick man.

Junior has spent his days since then attempting to waste the time of anyone who will listen about how his worthless cunt of a father should be released. In last night's interview he gret about how "terrorists and paedophiles get softer sentences than my Dad got." I think we're all for terrorists and paedophiles getting 30 years a time, I'll back that campaign. Is that the one you're running Michael? He moaned that fellow train robber Buster Edwards only served 16 years. Yeah? Well Daddy hasn't even served half that time.

Apparently 'the government won't review his sentence.' Well they might have, had he attempted to serve it. He then went on to refer to something he termed 'The Ronnie Biggs Red Tape.' Nah, me neither. "I see my father as a political prisoner." Quite why the BBC are giving this clown airtime is maybe the most baffling thing about it all. Anyone with just a casual eye on the situation might be under the impression that the guy is actually innocent. It's like he wants him to be rewarded for being able to escape.

Biggs broke out of jail and spent his good years partying, living it up and cashing in on his noteriety. Then as an old and sick man he decided to come over to Britain to go back to prison and receive medical attention, all the while having the members of his family who can speak wage a campaign to have him released, 'in order to see out his remaining years with dignity.'

The most annoying thing for me is, if Biggs hadn't broke out, his waste of space son Michael would never have been conceived.