Biggs in hospital with pneumonia; IN BRIEF.
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. has been moved out of his cell at Norwich prison and
into hospital with severe pneumonia. His son Michael said: "It is
the worst he's ever been." Biggs, 79, pictured, was refused
parole over the 1963 Great Train Robbery Train robbery was a type of robbery, in which the goal was to steal any money being delivered as cargo on trains. Trains carrying payroll shipments were for this reason a major target. this month. He has fractures of
the hip, pelvis and spine and has had three strokes.
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