on 31-12-2014 11:42 AM
Charmian Brent, the former wife of great train robber Ronnie Biggs, dies
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-30/former-wife-of-great-train-robber-ronnie-biggs-dies/5992932
Whatever anyone thinks of Biggs, theirs was a real love story, and Charmian continued in a dignified way to contribute to society.
on 31-12-2014 11:48 AM
on 31-12-2014 11:49 AM
That, it did !! Certainly one of those "Is this for Real " stories. RIP Charmian.
on 31-12-2014 11:50 AM
I have a feeling it was Doncaster ? I may be wrong ?
on 31-12-2014 11:57 AM
i just looked it up as it was before my time. We were both correct !!!
In 1966, Biggs fled to Sydney, where he lived for several months before moving to the seaside suburb of Glenelg in Adelaide, South Australia
In 1967, just after their third child was born, Biggs received an anonymous letter from Britain telling him that Interpol suspected that he was in Australia and that he should move. In May 1967, the family moved to Melbourne where he rented a house in the suburb of Blackburn North while his wife Charmian and their three sons lived in Doncaster East. He had a number of jobs in Melbourne before undertaking set construction work at the Channel 9 TV studios.