Bruce Reynolds – The Great Train Robber’s life in photos
RIP Bruce Reynolds. It’s not often a thief’s death is announced on the national news. But then history has been kind to the gang whose great caper was masterminded by Reynolds, a known armed burglar. Reynolds was arrested after nearly five years on the run and on January 15, 1969, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment. On August 8, 1963, Reynolds and the gang stole £2,500,000 from the overnight mail express from Euston to Glasgow. They forced the driver to stop at Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, where they unloaded the booty. When arrested in Torquay, Reynolds, 38, told Detective Chief-Superintendent Tommy Butler: “Anyone who thinks crime pays must be mad. It has been driving me silly.” Reynolds was released from prison on 6 June 1978 after serving 10 years. Not all the money was found.
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File - (AP) Wanted men Pictures by Early Bird. Photographs of men wanted by Scotland Yard in connexion with the Great Mail Train Robbery of August 1963, which were transmitted to Europe, the United Staates, Canada, and Mexico today, May 2, during a three minute police television programme vita the Early Bird communications satellite. The men are still at large and Scotland Yard is hoping that someone will recognise them and inform the police. They are Bruce Reynolds (top left), James White (top right), Charles Wilson (lower left), who escaped after being jailed for his part in the robbery, and Ronald "Buster" Edwards. (AP-Photo) 1963
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