Ronnie Biggs Prison Book ** Ideal Xmas Gift **

Nov. 11, 2009 - PRLog -- Book Description: Ronnie Biggs: The Inside Story,
written by two of Ronnie Biggs’s closest friends and most ardent supporters, delivers exactly what it says on the label, giving a very personal, unique and yet disturbing insight into the mind and subsequent treatment by the judicial and penal systems of the man that became a legendary household name for his role in one of Britain’s most notorious crimes, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and his subsequent life on the run upon his escape from prison in 1965.
Raising pointed questions and dispelling many myths, the story makes one wonder who is the greater criminal: the carpenter that played a bit part in an unarmed robbery 45 years ago, who has remained incarcerated since his return to the UK in 2001 despite the fact that he is now a frail, wheelchair-bound 79-year-old grandfather who is no threat to society, is fed via a tube to his stomach and can only communicate by pointing to letters on a laminated sheet; or the justice and prison systems that have allowed him to rot in jail for so long.
One thing’s for sure, although Ronnie Biggs’s body is letting him down after a series of strokes and other illnesses, his legal team, campaign supporters, underworld friends and devoted family certainly aren’t, and neither is his own fighting spirit or his humanity in the face of inhumanity. All he wants now is to be able to die a free man rather than suffer “a slow crucifixion on the Home Office cross”, and once all the facts have been digested one can only be moved to ask: “How could anyone deny him that?”

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About the Author: Mike Gray: Mike Gray is the organiser of the ‘Free Ronnie Biggs’ campaign. He was born in 1957 in Lambeth, London. Mike first contacted Ronnie Biggs in Rio, Brazil, in 1989, and set up the Ronnie Biggs website with Michael Biggs in 1999. He was also involved in setting up 'The Biggs Experience Limited' with Ronnie, Michael, and Bruce and Nick Reynolds. Mike is a regular prison visitor to Biggs and has been since his return to the UK in 2001.
Tel Currie: Tel Currie was born in Perivale, West London, in 1972. He was an unbeaten amateur boxer from the age of eleven until he was twenty. He then worked in a gym and started teaching boxing. He built his own stable of fighters and entered the unlicensed boxing scene, where he packed out Hammersmith Palais four times. Tel has worked with and is good friends with underworld names such as Charlie Richardson, Roy Shaw, Ronnie Knight, Freddie Foreman, Carlton Leach, the Lambrianou family, Albert Chapman, Howard Marks, Wilf Pine, Johnny Nash, Ronnie Biggs and many more. His other published books are Bouncers written with Julian Davies and Heroes and Villains written with infamous lifer Charlie Bronson