Great Train Robber flies back to Britain

Ronnie Biggs is on a plane back to England after 31 years on the run in Brazil.

Great Train Robber flies back to Britain

Ronnie Biggs is on a plane back to England after 31 years on the run in Brazil.

Biggs, who robbed £2.6m from the Glasgow-London mail train in 1963, has decided to turn himself in to the British authorities after a third stroke left him debilitated and unable to speak.

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