BIGGS' SON'S FURY AT 'FAKE SICKNESS'.Byline: JON CLEMENTS RONNIE Biggs' son yesterday furiously denied claims that the Great Train Robber faked illness to con his way out of prison. Michael Biggs, 30, insisted his 80-yearold father was "entering the last chapter of his life" and remained "imprisoned in his own body". He said: "The thought my father's been pretending to be nearly dead with pneumonia, spending hours trying to ingest food through a tube for the last few years to rise, Lazaruslike from his sickbed to live the life of Riley is both absurd and very hurtful." Biggs' condition improved slightly when he was released on compassionate grounds last week after serving ten years since his return to the UK. But he has again worsened. He remains in Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is a National Health Service teaching hospital located off the A11 and the B1108 on the southwestern outskirts of Norwich, Norfolk. but will shortly be transferred to a nursing home in Barnet, North London North London is a part of London, England which has several possible definitions. River & geography The part of London north of the River Thames (illustrated). . Michael said his father remains critically ill and was also angered at accusations that he had been a violent thug. He said: "My dad was neither nasty nor a petty criminal. He was a nice man but a c*** criminal." CAPTION(S): ILL Ronnie Biggs Ronald Arthur Biggs better known as Ronnie Biggs (born August 8, 1929) is an English prisoner who is known for escaping from prison after his minor role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and for being on the run for many years. was released |
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