'There I met and was introduced to 13 men, one of whom I already knew.
Three of these men and another who joined the group later have never, to
my knowledge, been wanted by the police in connection with the train
robbery so, for their protection, I will refer to them as, Joe, Bert,
Sid, and Fred.'
Ronnie Biggs
In the early hours of Thursday, 8 August 1963, sixteen masked men
ambushed the Glasgow-Euston mail train at Sears Crossing in
Buckinghamshire. Making off with a record haul of £2.6 million, the
robbers received approximately £150,000 each (over £2 million in today's
money). While twelve of the robbers were jailed over the next five
years, four were never brought to justice - they evaded arrest and
thirty-year prison sentences, and lived out the rest of their lives in
freedom. In stark contrast to the likes of Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards
and Bruce Reynolds, they became neither household names nor tabloid
celebrities.
Who were these men? How did they escape detection for so long? And how,
almost sixty years later, are their names not common knowledge? In No
Case to Answer, Andrew Cook gathers and examines decades of evidence
and lays it out end-to-end. It's time for you to draw your own
conclusions.
