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| Train robber Biggs has pneumonia | Train robber Biggs has pneumonia |
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| The Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs has been readmitted to hospital with severe pneumonia, his son said. | The Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs has been readmitted to hospital with severe pneumonia, his son said. |
| The 79-year-old inmate at Norwich Prison has been taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. | The 79-year-old inmate at Norwich Prison has been taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. |
| He was taken to the hospital last month with a serious chest infection and a fractured hip but returned to prison on 17 July. | |
| His son Michael Biggs said: "It's the worst he's ever been. The doctors have just told me to rush there." | |
| Biggs was refused parole by Justice Secretary Jack Straw earlier this month. Mr Straw said he remained "wholly unrepentant" for his crimes. | |
| Fractured pelvis | |
| He has been moved between his prison cell and a bed at the hospital several times. | He has been moved between his prison cell and a bed at the hospital several times. |
| A picture of him in his hospital bed was sent to MPs by his legal adviser Giovanni Di Stefano several weeks ago. | A picture of him in his hospital bed was sent to MPs by his legal adviser Giovanni Di Stefano several weeks ago. |
| His family said his life remained in the balance as he was suffering pneumonia and has fractures of the hip, pelvis and spine. | His family said his life remained in the balance as he was suffering pneumonia and has fractures of the hip, pelvis and spine. |
| They said Biggs has had three strokes and cannot eat, speak or walk. | |
| A parole board recommended he be released but Mr Straw disagreed, saying he had expressed no remorse for his crimes. | |
| Biggs, from Lambeth, south London, was a member of a 15-strong gang which attacked the Glasgow to London mail train as it passed through Buckinghamshire in August 1963 and made off with £2.6m in used banknotes. | |
| He was given a 30-year sentence but after 15 months he escaped from Wandsworth prison in south west London by climbing a 30ft wall and fleeing in a furniture van. | |
| He was on the run for more than 30 years, living in Spain, Australia and Brazil, before returning to the UK voluntarily in 2001. |