A careless mistake left the crime bosses on the run from police until their deaths following the Glasgow robbery.
In the history of robberiesthe vast majority of those that go down in history are characterized by the high degree of violence they used to achieve their goal, the ingenious strategies to avoid the police or by the recognized criminals who developed the plan.
Ronnie Biggs and Bruce Reynolds They had information about a transport train that was traveling from London to Glasgow with a load of approximately 60 million dollarsand assembled a band of meticulously selected criminals for the heist. However, they did not have the clumsiness of menwho would report them to the police.
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The Glasgow Train Robbery
The early morning of August 8, 1963a gang of 17 criminals managed to stop and loot the “Up Special” convoy of the UK Traveling Post Office as it passes through a railway bridge near Aylesbury, 65 kilometers from London. So at 3:15 in the morning, he stopped on the aforementioned bridge due to a red light, something that surprised the engineer’s assistant Jack Mills, who decided to get off to see what was happening. Over there He met the group of criminals.
They tied up the driver’s companion and boarded the convoy, where They hit Mills with a metal bar after he resisted. The operation, which was carried out in a few minutes, concluded with the theft of 118 of the 126 bags of moneywhich disappeared inside two small vans and a truck.
Although the escape was successful and the police were unable to capture them at that time, a funny mistake He ended up condemning the fate of the criminals. They forgot a board Monopoly which they had been playing with, which contained their fingerprints, which allowed his identification.
What happened to the criminals
The two leaders of the plan managed to flee after the robbery: Reynolds He hid for five years in Mexico and Canada after undergoing cosmetic surgery. He died in 2013. Biggs He was wanted for 31 years after his escape from prison in 1965 until his capture in 2001, when he voluntarily returned to the United Kingdom, where he also died in 2013.
Source: Ambito
