Biggs son: Dad's no faker.

RONNIE Biggs's son yesterday angrily denied claims that the Great Train Robber faked illness to get out of jail.

Michael Biggs insisted the 80-year-old was "entering the last chapter of his life".

He said his father was "nearly dead" with pneumonia and "imprisoned in his own body", and had been struggling to take food through a tube.

And he added: "The thought that my father has been pretending, only to rise, Lazaruslike, from his sickbed to live the life of Riley, is both absurd and very hurtful."

Biggs was freed on compassionate grounds this month after serving 10 years since returning to the UK from his bolthole in Brazil. He sat up in bed and spoke to reporters after his release.

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FREED: Biggs