No Case to Answer : The Men Who Got Away with the Great Train Robbery
No Case to Answer : The Men Who Got Away with the Great Train Robbery
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Author(s): Cook, Andrew
ISBN No.: 9780750993869
Pages: 224
Year: 202204
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 45.47
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

'There I met and was introduced to 13 men, one of whom I already knew. Three of these men and another who joined the group later have never, to my knowledge, been wanted by the police in connection with the train robbery so, for their protection, I will refer to them as, Joe, Bert, Sid, and Fred.' Ronnie Biggs In the early hours of Thursday, 8 August 1963, sixteen masked men ambushed the Glasgow-Euston mail train at Sears Crossing in Buckinghamshire. Making off with a record haul of £2.6 million, the robbers received approximately £150,000 each (over £2 million in today's money). While twelve of the robbers were jailed over the next five years, four were never brought to justice - they evaded arrest and thirty-year prison sentences, and lived out the rest of their lives in freedom. In stark contrast to the likes of Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards and Bruce Reynolds, they became neither household names nor tabloid celebrities. Who were these men? How did they escape detection for so long? And how, almost sixty years later, are their names not common knowledge? In No Case to Answer , Andrew Cook gathers and examines decades of evidence and lays it out end-to-end.


It's time for you to draw your own conclusions.


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