Train robber in care home

RONNIE BIGGS, one of Britain’s most notorious criminals, was being transferred from hospital to a care home yesterday, days after being released on compassionate grounds due to serious illness.

Great Train Robber Biggs, 80, was being moved from hospital in Norwich – where he was serving his prison term before being freed on August 7 – to a care home in Barnet, north London, near his son’s home.

Biggs’s legal adviser Giovanni di Stefano said Biggs was “very, very ill”.

“He is just well enough to be moved and that will be his final home,” Di Stefano said.

Biggs spent 35 years on the run after the 1963 Great Train Robbery, which saw a 15-strong gang hold up a Glasgow to London mail train north of London and make off with £2.6m.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw last month rejected Biggs’s application for parole because he was “wholly unrepentant” over his crime but then performed a U-turn, releasing him on compassionate grounds.