The author of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs’ latest book will be visiting Sutton next month for a signing session at Waterstones.
Mike Gray’s new book ‘Ronnie Biggs - The Inside Story’ tells the Great Train Robber’s story of his time in prison since he returned to this country in 2001.
Mr Gray has been a close family friend of Mr Biggs since 1989 and was the first to see the 80-year-old when Justice Secretary Jack Straw released him from prison on compassionate ground last August.
He said: “This book tells the Ronnie Biggs story with a difference, its not about the Train robbery, the prison escape, the high life in Brazil, but a truthful and disturbing insight into the prison system from 2001 to 2009.
“How Biggs was treated like his fellow inmate, child killer Ian Huntley, in the UK's most secure prison HMP Belmarsh.
“To write the book I visited Biggs in HMP Belmarsh and HMP Norwich every month for over eight years.”
Mr Gray and his co-author Tel Currie visited Biggs along with notorious bareknuckle hardman Roy "Prettyboy" Shaw, as well as Great Train Robbery mastermind Bruce Reynolds, TV personality Uri Geller and gangster Dave Courtney.
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