Ronnie Biggs released

[john_p]

Compassionate release on medical grounds.

Fair enough IMO

[TankRizzo]

I take it from that he's not long for this world...

[jamesson]

I wouldn't have released him.

[john_p]

79 and in hospital with chest infection .. generally doesn't bode well.

[Jasandjules]

I think the chances of him re-offending are low enough for this not to be much of a risk.

[jamesson]

He wasn't much of a risk when he went in. In this case it's more about getting the punishment for the crime carried out than the risk posed to society.

[tubbystu]

jamesson said:

He wasn't much of a risk when he went in. In this case it's more about getting the punishment for the crime carried out than the risk posed to society.

And because he stuck one up at the establishment for 20 years from Rio. Knocking his parole back previously has been vengeance by the establishment.

I'd bet he'll be lucky to make it to September........

[Teppic]

TankRizzo said:

I take it from that he's not long for this world...

His son said that he hopes that his dad will live long enough to celibrate his 80th birthday.

It's this Saturday.

[Mclovin]

what i cant believe is the publicity for this waster, its not like hes going to grass up his accomplises....he leeched off society all his life, probably not done much real work and now he will probably sell his story and make a killing.....

[rfisher]

Only came back to get free medical treatment on the NHS.

Was directly responsible for the death of the train driver.

Pointless to release him - he should have been left to rot in Brazil.

[SLCZ3]

Just what is Jack Straw playing at, in, out, shake it all about, Ronnie Biggs should have been left in jail, do the crime, do the time. What is the betting Biggs makes a surprise recovery???? just like Ernest Saunders, the only man to recover from Alzheimers!!!!!!
If he had done his time he would have been out years ago, as the rest of them.

[tubbystu]

I guess it saves a few quid in Prison Officers hours if he is in hospital and not needing to be guarded any longer.

He has only been released on compasionate grounds, so the records will not show he has been paroled.

[neilski]

Bloke robs a train, goes to prison, gets released. How is this headline news for two days? Come on BBC, sort it out, you haven't run a pointless story on Susan Boyle for a few days.

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Does not show Jack Straw in a good light tbh.

Shows he's weak and indecisive.....but we knew that already.

[jshell]

SLCZ3 said:

just like Ernest Saunders, the only man to recover from Alzheimers!!!!!!

That still boils my piss after all these years.....!!! :rage

[tubbystu]

And I notice from today's Times, it is the 46th anniversary of the actual robbery today too.

[shoggoth1]

tubbystu said:

And I notice from today's Times, it is the 46th anniversary of the actual robbery today too.

46th you say?
4+6 = 10
1+0 = 1

Exactly the number of bullets that should have been used when he attempted to return to this country for free health care.

Coincidence? You decide...

[youngsyr]

Yet another decision by this government that boils my p*ss.

He has played this country for a mug for decades and now they let him out on compassionate grounds?! F him and his medical condition in my opinion, he made his bed, he can f'ing lie in it or more accuratly rot in a prison cell until he draws his last.

[nonegreen]

jamesson said:

He wasn't much of a risk when he went in. In this case it's more about getting the punishment for the crime carried out than the risk posed to society.

What a load of utter rubbish. By todays standards he would have got 2 years for his crime and been out in less than 12 months provided he posed no danger to the public. The current filthy vermin that run this country are simply taking revenge against someone who beat the system. Jack Straw need to be ripped limb from limb by an angry mob while the civil servants who control him look on, then it should be their turn.

How dare these people allow scum like the youth who threw bleach in a womans face or the criminals who robbed Martin go free while they torture an onl man who was not even armed.

[Saddle bum]

It is not justice to exact revenge on a dying old man.

The judiciary and others have shown they have wanted to torture him to the end because he gave the system the finger.

To keep him a prisoner any further would just be tormenting his kin, he hardly knows the difference now.