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UK Releases 'Great Train Robber' Biggs to Die

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 7, 2009 1:23 PM CDT

(Newser) – Ronnie Biggs, part of a crew that stole millions from a British mail train in 1963 in the notorious Great Train Robbery, has been issued a “compassionate release” from prison to undergo medical treatment in his final days, the Guardian reports. Biggs, 80, has...   Read full story »

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