He died at the age of 62, soon after getting out of prison.Ī crooked solicitor who the gang used for the conveyancing when they bought the farm hideout used after the heist.įield was arrested and sentenced to 25 years, which was later reduced to five.Īn engineer who was arrested with Roger Cordrey in possession of £141,000.Reynolds said he had never heard of Boal. James was jailed again for six years in 1993 after shooting his wife's father and hitting her with a pistol. Jailed for 30 years, he served 12 and later sold silver from a market stall before moving to Spain. James left a tell-tale fingerprint at the gang's farm hideout after the heist and was caught following a chase over rooftops in London. He was nicknamed 'Weasel' and was the chief getaway driver. Police seize bags of cash following the heistĪ silversmith and racing driver, James dreamed of investing his share of the loot in new car technology. Wilson moved to Marbella, Spain, where he was shot and killed by a hitman on a bicycle in 1990.
He was the final train robber to emerge from prison in 1978. He was captured again in Canada after four years on the run and served 10 more years in jail. He was jailed for 30 years but escaped after just four months.
He was captured quickly and during his trial at Aylesbury Crown Court in 1964 earned the nickname 'the silent man' as he refused to say anything. Wilson was the gang's 'treasurer' who gave each of the robbers their cut of the haul. Two wreaths in the shape of trains accompanied his funeral cortège.
He was the subject of the 1988 film Buster, in which he was played by Phil Collins.Edwards was found hanged in a garage in 1994 at the age of 62. Mills' family say he never recovered, and he died seven years later.Įdwards served nine years in jail and then became a familiar figure selling flowers outside Waterloo station in London. Ronald Arthur 'Ronnie' Biggs played a minor role in the robbery, but his life as a fugitive after escaping from prison gained him notorietyĪn ex-boxer, club owner and small-time crook who fled to Mexico after the heist but gave himself up in 1966.Įdwards is widely believed to be the man who wielded the cosh used to hit train driver Jack Mills over the head. He was finally freed in 2009 on 'compassionate grounds' by then Justice Secretary Jack Straw who said he was not expected to recover. His health deteriorated in 2001 and he returned to the UK voluntarily where he was sent back to prison. He was given a 30-year sentence in 1964, but he escaped after 15 months by fleeing over the walls of London's Wandsworth prison in April 1965.Īfter having plastic surgery, he lived as a fugitive for 36 years in first Australia then Brazil, where he fathered a son Michael. Ronald Arthur 'Ronnie' Biggs played a minor role in the robbery, but his life as a fugitive after escaping from prison gained him notoriety. His son Nick said his father died in his sleep in the early hours of February 28 2013. In the 1980s he was jailed for three years for dealing amphetamines.Īfter his second release, Reynolds went on to work briefly as a consultant on a film about the robbery, Buster, and published the Autobiography of a Thief in 1995. He was released on parole in 1978 and moved, alone and penniless, into a tiny flat off London's Edgware Road. They later moved on to Canada but the cash from the robbery ran out and he came back to England.įive years after the heist, in 1968, a broke Reynolds was captured in Torquay and sentenced to 25 years in jail.
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