The LIFE of England's BIGGEST ROBBER Ronnie Biggs | Full Documentary
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Want to know more about how Ronnie pulled off The Great Train Robbery and his later 30-year sentence in prison? This documentary shows the whole life of Ronald Biggs an English criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, living as a fugitive for 36 years, and for his various publicity stunts while in exile.
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If only the Home Office was as dutiful in giving harsh sentences to "grooming gang " members and other foreign criminals.
Jimmy Saville
You hit the nail 100% on the head.
💯 agree
They are 1's who have invited them in so they'll hardly stop it 😒
Yes and how about those responsible for real serious crimes, crimes against humanity, and the very rich who get away with the most hanious crimes!
What a great watch...being born in 1964 I knew about Ronnie but only through what the papers had put out, this was truly eye-opening as to what really happened. So glad I watched it and you can't go wrong with the legend that is Phil Daniels as the commentator!
For the government to take revenge like that is so petty.
I agree. It cost them so much, keeping him in prison, with nursing care etc.. would’ve been cheaper to let him go. But, I must say, if it was me, and considering the state of the NHS, he probably had better care than at home. Turned out that he had his last four years in a private nursing home after being released on compassionate grounds in 2009.
He was a criminal after all
Actually it was not Rupert Murdocks jet that flew Ron back from Rio. I was working for Occitania Jet Services at the time and it was our Falcon 900EX that flew him back to Northolt. We were approached by the Sun Newspaper via a broker to charter the Falcon 900EX to fly a group of journalists and some of Ron’s former colleagues down to Rio to collect Ron. I remember briefing the Hostess about the flight and the catering order which was beer and curry. It was all hush hush while we planned the flight, but once we departed London the Sun splashed the front cover of the newspaper with the headline ‘we’re Ron our way’ and a picture of our jet getting airborne with the Sun logo on the tail. The return flight a few days later and the destination was kept secret to throw off journalists from rival newspapers. We flew to RAF Northolt where the aircraft was met by the Police. Talking with the Captain and Hostess after the flight had ended, I learnt that Ron was indeed very ill and needed oxygen during the flight. He certain,y did not eat or drink, but we made a bed up for him and kept him as comfortable as possible.
Rupert Murdock telling porkies, who'd have thought it! Thanks for adding this information @LeeAirVideos.👍
I’ve got a cousin in the RAF
Nothing will ever make me like Australian (where England dumped their crooks) Rupert. In the USA and probably everywhere, it is spelled "Murdoch". He took over the business and fortune from his father and pandered to lust and gossip with Page 3 girls and innuendo so that he could sell the working class on the idea that helping the wealthy helps us all. People need to catch on soon or the last remaining amount of freedom and influence will slip from the grasp of the working class that Rupert cultivated but betrayed from day one. As always, help,was necessary and here in America, that came from Nixon's election Team of Atwater and Ailes so that when the President in the 1980s laid the groundwork (including hobbling 20th Century Fox) a by then wealthier Rupert was able to "lather, rinse, repeat" his same formula on the working class here across the pond.
@@Redemption660who gives a fuck
If he wasn't ill he'd have never come back.
Exactly good old NHS eh 😂it’s how the world look at Britain free £££
Good ol NHS
No shit Sherlock😂
He didn't, you wouldn't & neither would I....
Health tourist
This is a story, and one of many, that illustrates, quite vividly, why government and its various arms are held in such low esteem. As time goes on respect for the law is diminishing to vanishing point.
you are so right about this.
Very true. They're not so much interested in EQUAL law, but harsh law for any INDIVIDUAL they hate, and as a result laws AREN'T equal amongst criminals. It depends on WHO you are and the establishment persecuting those who hate unequally versus others they didn't know who have committed an equal crime and get FAR less punishment for it. Julian Assange being one of the hated ones. If someone hacked some random company and spewed a bunch of their emails, they would likely have had the whole ordeal over in 2 years
Google is the one encouraging anarchy
Ron missed a trick! Had he made a sizable donation to the Conservative party (or a senior minister) before coming home he would have likely been given suitable leeway to live out his last days freely with a bit more compassion and dignity - that's just how it works in this country.
He should have stayed in Brasil. Instead of blowing his money, he could have set up some business, a shop, carpenters, whatever. In Brasil you can live well on one third of the money you need for a reasonable existence in Britain. And then he would have had insurance for private health care which takes care of absolutely everything, and well, (if you're insured).
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@@user-gt2ud2gw9eit sounds like work restrictions were quite technical on him.
Great documentary, many thanks for sharing.
Murders are getting half this sentence! 😮 Shame!
Ronnie Biggs was a very small part of the great train robbery. He was hyped by the media and by his long time on the run.
Omg. How stupid u are. That is what the story says. Why are u repeating the start of the movie. Did u know he also had surgery??
True
If this was not true, I would never have believed it! Great story!!
My friend from München, Blank Frank, was his friend, visited him in Brazil few times. Ronnie wasn't a violent thug, he was a thief. Not a compliment, just a fact. I lost contact with Frank, i miss him,he used to visit me in Croatia, he is a living punk enciclopaedia, name a band-he knows. Not only punk, the guy lives for music and travel. That's a life worth living
WOW! What a great story!
“My daddy was a bank robber but he never hurt nobody, he just loved to live that way and he loved to steal your money…”
@@djquinn11steal who’s money?
@@nige5902 : Lyrics from a song recorded by The Clash, a punk band from the 70’s. That’s why I used the quotation marks.
Istra? Ili?
I was next to ronnie biggs at belmarsh in mental health care, once he had finished with his paper he would always get the screes to give it to me, this was 2003 and he could hardly speak back then and would breath very heavily
Funny how so many of you crims were serving time with Biggs.
@@bobjames6622 ok
@@peterjames1075 So what did YOU do to get into Belmarsh?
@@cranegantry868 u snowflake
@@peterjames1075 don't listen to them bro, in the 6 years he was at Belmarsh he would of seen hundreds of people come and go. I was in Norwich young offenders. He came to the healthcare wing for HMP Norwich which was in the grounds of the YOI and I was a red band cleaner so used to see him in his bed everyday when he was really bad. Sad thing to see him like that, he was just a presence in a bed then. His board didn't just have letters on either it had about 50 words on it and the letters for words that weren't there but then I guess I'm lying too.
Happy mondays spent the day chilling with Ronnie at his home having a bbq and drinks
Remember Assange, still in Belmarsh 😡
Belmarsh is certainly a prison for political reasons. It does not reflect true justice. People like Ronnie Briggs were initially given ferocious sentences then, when he became very ill, and incapable of.cmitting more crime he should have been freed or, at least, been sent to a calmer jail😢
So what
@@michaelharrison3602 do you don't care about injustice. Would you care if it happened to you ?
And committed less crime than Ronnie!🤨
The imprisonment of Assange is because he told the truth about what governments prefer to bury. Keep his name in the discussion because that is his course to freedom.
He has a lot of people who think well of him that says a lot about the man !
Really nice guy I was n Belmarsh wi him He'd lost his voice by then but still he'd point out words on a board of letters kinda thing Charming man really bless his soul❤
Nope! He was just a crim.
@@cranegantry868no doubt you are too. If you’ve never met the guy, spent time with him, nor understood his motives then you’re ‘nope’, is irrelevant
Yeah, right, of course you were. If only we all had a penny for the "old lag" stories we would ALL be millionaires. You're just another leg-end in your own lunchtime. Next you'll be telling us that you served time with the Krays!
@@bobjames6622 you know one day, someone will be right, even this fella could be. But ever the skeptic, you’ll walk right on past it.
@@bobjames6622only unbelievable to someone who has only ever lived a 9-5 life and served no jail time
The establishment reaped what they sowed. If he had been given (and the rest) 10 years in prison which would have been reasonable, there would have been no escapes and no more expense to this country, it was despicable behaviour by several governments but no more than expected of them 🙄
Yep, go soft on some crimes, just those where you like the crim's story.
An innocent man died I’m sure his family think 10 year was not enough
10 years is "reasonable "?
Red mist makes for bad decisions,
Ronnie Biggs was doin time...till he done a bunk...Now he says he saw the light..and sold his sole to Punk...GREAT ROCK nROLL SWINDLE
No one is innocent the sex pistols
Old punks never die,we just stand at the back. 😎
But some are more guilty than others!
i dont believe that 'honest' Journalist McKenzie for a minute.
Criminally underated..
Needs updating
Ronnie Biggs was doing time 'till he done a bunk Now he says he's seen the light And sold his sole for punk - Sex Pistols
Michael was great. He saved his father and made a lot of money. Great story.
Brazil had no extradition treaty. Ronnie was a clever bloke!
No, clever people get money without ending up in prison or attacking train drivers
Dont ever forget the driver of that train was so badly injured he never worked again.Biggs is no hero.
Nor ate the British GOVERN-ment..they killed millions...
Fantastic story and think about it, if he hadnt robbed that train, his life would be very ordinary. He has lived more than most of us will ever do...but tell me: "The LIFE of England's BIGGEST ROBBER".. So.. how big was he...in stones, pound or kilos??
I bumped into Ronnie on avenida copal cabana rio. He was wearing an English written t shirt. I thought I know that face then he was.gone
This is so sad.RIP ronny Biggs never forgotten ❤
No. Not sad. He was a criminal.
@@cranegantry868 as are you.
@@cranegantry868 Did he harm you ffs
Quite an old documentary but interesting. I got to know Ron in 97 in Rio. A friend and colleague of mine took me to his place. There was a barbecue and a German film team was there in order to direct a documetary. An English friend of his played the trumpet. Ron did build the biggest and strongest joints I have ever smoked....but he did not like cocaine. When I was snorting a line on the toilet, he took me by surprise and was not amused. Anyway, apart from that we got along very well. Of course, I met Mike (Mikinho) there. He was a young dude at that time, in his twenties...and I remember a Belgian journalist called Phyllis Huber (who knew Mick Jagger), a close friend of Ron`s. In one of my books I wrote a short story about that barbecue (I made up something in addition), which is a mix of fiction and reality. Time goes by indeed ....I was 36 at that time and now I am 62.......R.I.P. Ron.....really R.I.P.
You got to love this dude for the way he tormented the British justice system and of course the queen but I reckon Rio D.J. used Ronnie as a tourist attraction for the British people to come on holiday to Brazil Inc the gangster's who needed to get away for a minute in hiding if they have done a bank job or whatever it was but he managed to live somewhat a half decent life in Rio God bless you Ronnie Biggs a true soldier that never snitch on the rest of whoever was involved in the train robbery that was supposed to be great huh I have read stuff through the years that people stole money that was meant to get to Ronnie but I'm not sure if that's true but more than likely is knowing the know if you know you know man ha ha ha go on my son give it to them where it hurts the most, respect brother !!!
"but more than likely is knowing the know if you know you know man ha ha ha go on my son give it to them where it hurts the most, respect brother" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - you have quite the intellect!!!
Its amazing that this tough criminal wrote such a beautiful childrens story 'the snowman' big softie at heart
Guy is such a player❤😂
Us brits dont celebrate this man as a good guy,or someone to look up to. Ronnie Biggs was a criminal but his part in the train robbery was very small. He didnt cosh the driver or participate in the act of the robbery.He dropped off a replacement train driver at the scene,nothing more. The govt tried to make an example of him. British people love it when someone gets one over on the govt ,which is why he became a bit of a infamous celebrity hero. Criminal yes but not a dangerous guy and not deserving of 30yrs inside.
then how do you explain the fascination with the krays?
@kevindhargu641 idont. I've found it very strange myself why they are so prominent and celebrated. I think it's because they were known to people more due to being minor celebrities, after featuring in TV interviews due to their ownership of clubs and mixing with film stars and British celebs. Also they were portrayed in the press as being glamorous and affluent , typical East end boys who had nothing and became rich and famous. Everybodies heroes.They were also said to only be violent towards fellow crininals and left the general community alone and made sure nothing bad happened in their own territory. The public are easily swayed by the press and TV. That's how I see it anyway.
DEFINITELY deserving of 30 years. He was part of and agreed to, the criminal activities of the robbery and that included whatever it took to get that money which he would share in. He was in FULL agreement so you cannot assign a veritable innocence to him by reassigning his task in the robbery to a minor role.
@cranegantry868 yeah I can see your point and I can imagine many people would agree with you. It was called The great train robbery by the press and that name gave it a kind of celebratory,story type feel so maybe it didn't seem so bad in the eyes of many people,myself included.
@@briggaskin Make ALL of your OWN decisions on what you see and read based on YOUR moral system. Don't allow someone to hand their ideas of morals to you. Be independent.
all this for a nonviolent crime, he didn't molest, r@pe or kill anyone. no matter what Ronnie got the biggest laugh. funny how Scotland Yard can beak law and get away with it when their supposed to be the "good guys"
The British Governments insistence on Biggs being incarcerated in a Maximum Security Prison, just smacks of vengefulness, a malevolent vindictiveness.
The guy said his life wasn’t that great is he fucking demented led a life better than most lol
Having a pot of tea 😂 brilliant Old school gentlemen liertally just needed to live
I remember back in 2001 when he gave himself up, I got a call from all the newspapers to get my take on things sharing the same name as one of his kids. I could have have had some fun for sure, but I said they'd made a mistake as I just shared a name.
Honest John over here... Should taken those media scum for as much as you could 😂
I remember an old theatre lady telling me that Biggs was trying to get out of one of the Australian cities. There was a theatre production happening where they were taking Egyptian stage scenery from one city to the other apparently they had him hiding in one of the oesophagus . The police actually pulled up the truck but the people said we have to be in the next city whichever that was, and will sue you if we can't have this stuff set up in time so they let them go
He was in Adelaide for awhile set up his own business with a removal van which would be parked outside the Grange Hotel at the seafront which was his local pub the removal van had "Biggs Removals " painted on sides .it was from there he fled to Melbourne then onto Rio
30 years was always excessive: 12 years was for the robbery and 18 was for the embarrassment, in an era of Profumo and the start of major social change, and when the Krays had as much power as the police. 30 years was an establishment backlash when the establishment was trying to show they were boss.
All those ridiculous sentences : the train robbers ,the Krays, the Richardsons were all political decisions
Wow should be proud England 😢
God bless him
Good one XX mate love Declan X Trev Dec singer songwriter xx respect Declan ❤rip Johnny ❤
If it was me I would have stayed and not given the establishment the satisfaction, he had a great life and really stuck his fingers up to the system a clever man.
What a great wife he had
Brilliant documentary , Ronnie Biggs kept the British Establishment on its toes , very sad to see the end they was never going to let him out , but even from that bed on a hospital wing I think he stuck two fingers up to the Establishment , F**K what the press say , I say "VERY WELL DONE Ronnie" you will always be a LEGEND !!!!!!!
Phil Daniels narrating too ! 👍🏼
Ronnie wrote the book on spin Doctory
Many years ago i read about this trainrobbery and find it fascinating........i also saw the movie......
Maybe you are unaware the Royal Family "blacked" the Premiere of that disgusting movie. As the Train Driver who was brutally injured by those scum, & later died, was washed over in the film !
@@railwaymechanicalengineer4587wasn't ronny tho that killed him was it and who cares if they tried to stop the the premier or not the royal family are full of corruption not met andrew and people before him ?
@@railwaymechanicalengineer4587 he did die, but not from his injuries. Do yourself a favour, pull your melodramatic, aspergic head out of your arse.
@@railwaymechanicalengineer4587 jack mills, the train driver, died 7 years later of leukemia, aged 64
Apparently his work as a joiner was criminal as well.
He never had a cscs card.
@@matthewdonovan6073 You need to pass a masters degree to get a laborer's.
Much love& respect for a true Legend
Is this Phil Daniels narrating?
Who else saw this video and thought -"Ronnie Biggs was doing time 'till he 'come a punk..."?
I love how his punishment was sewing mail bags😂😂✌
I am a huge admirer of Simon Jordan, a proponent of integrity in sport
What a waste of lives.....nobody ever got rich on this , just heartache for most of them. Great story though
Toniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight I'm a rock n' roll star
is this the police force that doesn't prosecute 'historic ' crimes, or does that only apply to rich tories ?
They not changed horrible lot
Tories don't commit crimes, apparently, it's called an error of judgement, which is good enough for the establishment to let them off, possibly remove them from their job and give them a golden handshake at the expense of the great British tax payer.
Just reading the title, no where near Englands biggest robber. He had a minor role in the GTR and was just a bloke who could carry shit.
We Brazilians loved Biggs and how the Brazilian government gave the finger to the arrogant English police.
Colonial arrogance
Keeping him in Belmarsh was a disgrace.
"I'd never met such a good looking man" should have gone to specsavers
White
My Grandfather was Ronald Graves. Mum told me about how Biggs and his gang came to their house and turfed the entire inside of the house out onto the street, and torched it all. The British Government sent them to Australia and changed their names to try and protect them. We where never allowed to talk about it when grandad was alive. When i was a child and Biggs came to Australia i remember times being very tense. They thaught he was here to get grandad.
Actor.. Proof of all CLAIMS Required.
Pure legend of a man 🫡
Er, no. He was a scumbag thief.
@@bobjames6622 you’re a criminal too
What about the innocent train driver they assaulted?
@@katoness what about him? He lived.
@@Luke_275 Wow, you are a sick puppy! And if that was your relative, would you think the same?
Who's the narrator of those I know the voice but can't place it
Phil Daniels Kevin from Eastenders
Raimunda impressed me as the best kind of woman and her son is clearly a chip off her block. I hope Ronnie gets a piece of blue sky soon...
Bro, this documentary is like over a decade old, Ronnie died 11 years ago.
Ronnie was released from prison in August 2009 and lived in a nursing home in Barnet until his death in 2013 at the age of 84.
Nobody tells me anything. I guess it's not too late to raise a glass to a true rascal...@@richardphillips6281
She left her child
Poor Charmian, she really suffered
Oh dear mr daniells
Absolutely disgusting what the British government did to him at the end. The Great Train Robbery was ancient history by then Biggs was fuked. He should have been looked after and put into a Secure care home for a few months as a gesture of "Oh look we did lock him up" Then let go to live the remaining few years out with his Family.
Bad luck do the crime
He was put in a secure home
People spend their entire life in prison for what less than what this guy did. He got what he had coming. He played he partied, he lost.
VISCOUS CRIMINAL BRUTALITY. Obviously you missed the bit, about the train Driver they injured, who later died from the injuries he received. Or maybe this insulting programme forgot to mention that fact !!!
@@railwaymechanicalengineer4587 He didn't die from the one plonk on the head.
Never knew him but I have been in his house in alpine road Redhill.
What number was it
@@maxngm8590 can't remember it was 36 years ago.
In humane conditions is appalling in a civilised place proportionate circumstances no way
Why did I think this was Ronny FKIN Pickering at first !!!!!!!!!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Brilliant...and no he should not be in prison.... too delicate at the end.
Why fidel castro junior standing over an unlit bbq with a frozen Iceland beef burger in front of him in the garden of a council house 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Who was the team that was supposed to clean up 🤔
Who are the two birds @38:00
What right did the jock have to kidnap him
Who wouldn’t want to be in this family…😂😂 RIP
Lesson, do the crime, do the time.
@fubar, Tell that to all the EU/UK/US "leaders" they all should be doing long, long time. And Miller a typical money skunk.
He did nearly 40 years on the run and came back as an old frail man by choice , he did fairly well for himself
One of my grandfathers oldest friends
Best times in England 🏴 .. Look at it now
Not an evil man, plenty worse about. Great character.
Im sure roy shaw and Norman wisdom are brothers they both grew up a stone trow )??from each other and the milkmans name was Erny 😂
Bruce Reynolds painted as a mastermind, cant have been that good of a mastermind, didn't he leave his prints/forensics all over Leatherslade farm.
Many of them did not only Bruce Reynolds I believe.
The gang got let down by a contact who was supposed to go in after they'd left to clean the farmhouse from top to bottom!!
He is a great guy and lived a very good life
Ronnie should have stayed where he was, UK is nothing to go back to
They could've sent him to an open prison. Maximum security Belmarch, come on they really wanted to make an example of him then.
my uncle & mother was brought up next door to him in croydon
Remember The Gang were all Ex British National servicemen.
ive been a fan of Ronnie for all of my life still am really he's the only true guy who kind of made it and im glad would love to know how his son is now long live ronnies memory
Hope the Train Drivers family are ok.
The biggest criminals you never hear about. You become too well known, you are a liability.
His wife’s a legend stuck by him thick and thin
don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. if he stuck in jail the first time, he would be free now & probably healthier.
I like this guy! You cant be mad at him.
Yes you can
RIP Ronnie Biggs 🇬🇧🙏🏻
Why?
@@POPE_FRANC1S Cos he gave us a great story!
@@pr-tj5by he also ruined an innocent man's life
@@POPE_FRANC1S So you know for a fact that he coshed the driver 🤔
@@pr-tj5by he was still involved
What a life story. I don’t believe keeping this man in jail accomplishes anything 🤷♂️ All that seems to be happening is making an example out of someone 😞
Law enforcement is a matter of catching and punishing enough criminals that people are afraid to commit crimes, without combing through every citizen's life. That's called deterrence, and it means you punish people as an example, as well as a personal deterrence against further crimes. By your logic, if a man murdered only his wife, all you need to do is prevent him from getting married and the punishment otherwise does no good except as an example.
@@ED-es2qv Well said.
This is old and he’s dead now but they did let him out in the end after 8 years and he lived another 4. I think they thought he was going to die a lot quicker than that though.
Terry Moogan here in the usa liverpool bank robber to the Hollywood Butler, in them days I would have had the bank robbers has heroes, instead of the government, they became heroes because of the underclass in Britain . I was on the run in the usa for 18 years. my book has just come out on amazon liverpool bank robber to Hollywood Butler, great read five stars went to number one on amazon, peace love to all of you,
Just read a bit about u..the tom hanks son crash bit made me laugh lol
hello max thank you read my book you will like it Liverpool bank robber to Hollywood Butler all the best,@@maxngm8590
Judging by your grammar you never wrote the book?
hello Steven .I was in approve schools detention borstal. and jails in my youth Has you know you don't get to get an education . also the story I wrote is from my experiences. then its Edited. professional people put it together. they can't make it up, all the best Terry .
Or maybe even try prose ting those who ruined multiple lives through the PO Horizon debacle … but no
My God Bruce,s son is the spitting image of his father!