Two fingers to you all: Frail and 車椅子-bound, Ronnie Biggs, 83, makes a feeble gesture of 反抗 at the funeral of one of his train robber pals
Even half a century later, he speaks of it as ‘an adventur e’.
Ronnie Biggs might be a pathetic 人物／姿／数字 in a 車椅子 these days but he still has fond memories of the 広大な／多数の／重要な Train 強盗 and his 36-year flight from 司法（官）.
An engine driver coshed on the skull with an アイロンをかける 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業. A life on the run. A circle of friends 含むing ギャング（個々）s, hard-men, 凶漢s and petty 犯罪のs.
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Partner-in-罪，犯罪: Ronnie Biggs makes an obscene gesture as he …に出席するs the funeral of Bruce Reynolds, the 操る behind the 広大な／多数の／重要な Train 強盗
Event: Hundreds of 会葬者s …に出席するd the service which took place at St Bartholomew the 広大な／多数の／重要な, in London
Colourful life: Bruce Reynolds, left, was the brains behind the 広大な／多数の／重要な Train 強盗 (pictured in 1963 権利)
悪名高い: 会葬者s 慰安 each other outside the church. The funeral was very 井戸／弁護士席 …に出席するd
Biggs said 別れの（言葉，会） to one of them yesterday ? and 設立する the strength to raise two fingers for the cameras.
Frail, 83, and unable to 逸脱する far from 医療の care, he made a rare public 遠出 from his nursing home to join 会葬者s at the funeral of his old pal Bruce Reynolds, fellow ex-逃亡者／はかないもの and いわゆる ‘操る’ of the 1963 強盗.
In a 尊敬の印 read out on his に代わって, Biggs told a 200-strong congregation: ‘It was Bruce who 始める，決める me off on an adventure that was to change my life, and it was typical of Bruce that he was there at the end to help me 支援する from Brazil to? Britain. I am proud to have had Bruce Richard Reynolds as a friend. He was a good man.’
井戸／弁護士席-known associate of the Kray brothers Freddie Foreman (centre) leads a group of 会葬者s to the funeral, 含むing former celeb and football スパイ／執行官 Eric Hall (権利)
尊敬（する）・点s: 会葬者s at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds who was 刑務所，拘置所d for 25 years for his part in the 広大な／多数の／重要な Train 強盗
暗黒街: Self-styled ギャング（個々） Dave Courtney, who was 刑務所，拘置所d in the Eighties for attacking five men with a meat cleaver, at the funeral
A 会葬者 makes a 陳列する，発揮する of his 暗黒街 関係s at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds
EastEnders actor Jamie Foreman - the son of former ギャング（個々） Freddie Foreman, left, and another of the 生き残るing 広大な／多数の／重要な Train robbers Bobby Welch, 権利
NICK REYNOLDS: GANGSTER'S SON WHOSE BAND FOUND FAME WITH THE SOPRANOS THEME TUNE
Nick Reynolds' 禁止（する）d, Alabama 3, was 設立するd at an 酸性の House party in Brixton, London, in 1995, when members agreed that a fusion of country music with 酸性の house was a 可能性.
They were 調印するd to Geffen 記録，記録的な／記録するs for a million dollars which, in their words, was spent: ' on 'さまざまな contraband items and with the 残り／休憩（する） we made an over-produced, brilliant situationist masterpiece called '追放する on Coldharbour 小道／航路'
They 達成するd international fame when the 生産者s of The Sopranos, a 攻撃する，衝突する TV series about a マフィア family living in the U.S., chose their 跡をつける 'Woke Up This Morning' for the show's 開始 credits.
That tune, written by 禁止（する）d member 略奪する Spragg, 'bought someone a swimming pool, but it sure wasn't any of us...', they （人命などを）奪う，主張する.
Their music has also appeared in a number of films 含むing Gone in 60 Seconds and A Life いっそう少なく Ordinary.
That ‘good man’ was part of the ギャング（団） that needlessly attacked train driver Jack Mills and left him bleeding in his cab.
Although Mills died seven years later from 癌, his family 持続するs the 外傷／ショック never left him, 主張するing the blow 与える／捧げるd to his 早期に death.
The 強盗 netted more than £2.6million in used bank 公式文書，認めるs, around? £40million in today’s money and the biggest of its 肉親，親類d.
にもかかわらず the unnecessary brutality, it 逮捕（する）d public imagination for １０年間s, spawned a succession of films and 調書をとる／予約するs, and earned 主要な ギャング（団） members 疑わしい celebrity.
Hence, other 指名するs from the past joined Biggs yesterday for the 私的な church service in St Bartholomew The 広大な／多数の／重要な in the City of London.
の中で them were former Kray brothers’ henchmen Freddie Foreman, known as ‘Brown Bread Fred’ for the 援助 he gave in 配置する／処分する／したい気持ちにさせるing of one of the twins’ high profile 犠牲者s; fellow member of ‘The 会社／堅い’, Chris Lambrianou; and self-布告するd ギャング（個々） Dave Courtney.
Yesterday Courtney said of Reynolds: ‘He was a real class 行為／法令／行動する.
‘He used to wear the cravat and everything. He was a 君主 for naughty people. The 広大な／多数の／重要な Train 強盗 ? that was the big one for him. He always used to call it his Moby 刑事.’
Reynolds, an antique 売買業者 愛称d ‘Napoleon’, 誇るd that he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to pull off a 罪，犯罪 that would go 負かす／撃墜する in? history and make him rich.
He 後継するd in one of those amb itions ? but was broke by the time he was 逮捕（する）d five years later in Torquay after returning to Britain from a? succession of （犯人の）隠れ家s in Mexico and Canada.
He was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd and 宣告，判決d to 25 years in 刑務所，拘置所. In the 1980s he was 刑務所，拘置所d again, for 麻薬 取引，協定ing.
He died in his sleep on February 28, 老年の 81, a few months before the 50th 周年記念日 of the 強盗.
It might have been あられ／賞賛するd as one of the most audacious of the 20th century, but Reynolds, the service was told, was not looking 今後 to celebrating it. In his 1995 memoirs, he labelled it ‘a 悪口を言う／悪態’ that followed him for the 残り／休憩（する） of his life.
Yesterday his son Nick 述べるd his father as ‘a romantic, a true adventurer... a journeyman who chose a lunatic path and paid the price.’
He 追加するd: 'He was an artist at heart and although he referred to the train 強盗 as his Sistine Chapel, his greatest 勝利 was in 再評価するing himself and changing his 態度 about what is important in life.’
Having left the church to the 緊張するs of Let’s 直面する the Music and Dance, guests were 招待するd afterwards to remember Reynolds at an East End pub.
Biggs was joined by a number of associates of Reynolds. A 公式文書，認める (left) placed by a 会葬者 at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds
Nick Reynolds' leads his family into the service where 尊敬の印s and readings were made
An 病んでいる Ronnie Biggs (left) shakes Nick Reynolds' 手渡す after an emotional service, while self-styled ギャング（個々） Dave Courtney turns up with a toy train
Nick Reynolds 成し遂げるs with his 禁止（する）d Alabama 3 during his father's funeral
A 声明 read out on に代わって of Ronnie Biggs 述べるd Bruce Reynolds as a 'true friend'
Flowers left by 井戸／弁護士席-known associate of the Kray brothers Freddie Foreman
A 尊敬の印 from Reynolds' 副 Gordon Goody was also read out at the service
Emotional: 尊敬の印s were read out by Bruce Reynolds' son Nick and his friend and fellow robber Gordon Goody
The 棺 leaves St Bartholomew the 広大な／多数の／重要な church followed by 会葬者s in the City of London
Nick Reynolds paid 尊敬の印 to his father 述べるing him as his best friend and greatest inspiration
Ronnie Biggs, centre, said he was 'proud' to count Bruce Reynolds as a friend
逮捕（する）: Reynolds 存在 taken away by police in November 1968 after spending five years on the run
Family: Reynolds, left, with his wife フランs 同様に as fellow robber John Daly and his wife Barbara
ギャング（団）: Reynolds, centre, with his 共犯者s Buster Edwards, Tom Wisbey, Jim White, Roger Cordrey, Charles Wilson and Jim Hussey in 1979
Heist: The train which was 的d by the robbers pictured soon after the 罪，犯罪
Scene: The 橋（渡しをする） where the 強盗団の一味 held up the train and attacked its 労働者s
大虐殺: Inside a carriage of the mail train in the 影響 of the 強盗 in 1963
Cash: 探偵，刑事s search through 解雇（する）s of banknotes which were stolen in what was then a 記録，記録的な／記録する 強盗
調査: A policeman 選ぶs up the train driver's hat from the 鉄道 跡をつけるs 近づく the 待ち伏せ／迎撃する 場所／位置
Father and son: Reynolds with his son Nick, an artist who is a member of the 禁止（する）d Alabama 3
THE FUNERAL OF BRUCE REYNOLDS: A CONGREGATION OF MURDERERS AND ASSORTED VILLAINS
THE MEAT CLEAVER MAN
Dave Cortney (left) and Chris Lambriano …に出席する the funeral of Bruce Reynolds, the 操る behind the 広大な／多数の／重要な Train 強盗 of 1963 at St Bartholomew The 広大な／多数の／重要な Church in Smithfield, London
Dave Courtney, 54, (pictured left - speaking to Chris Lambrianou, 権利) （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to have been 発射, stabbed and had his nose bitten off. He also says he’s had to kill to stay alive.
The 暗黒街 hardman, who was 刑務所，拘置所d in the Eighties for attacking five men with a meat cleaver, is said to have been a 負債 collector for the Kray twins.?
In this 役割, he cultivated a 評判 for using the knuckleduster. He （人命などを）奪う，主張するs he was the model for Vinnie Jones’s character in the 199
8 film Lock 在庫／株 and Two Smoking バーレル／樽s. However, it’s been 示唆するd that he’s embellished his past so his 調書をとる／予約するs sell better.
THE KILLER TURNED CHRISTIAN
Chris Lambrianou, 75, was 伴う／関わるd in the 試みる／企てる by the Krays to muscle in on Birmingham in the 1960s ? but failed to ひったくる 支配（する）／統制する of the city’s 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s. He was 手渡すd 15 years in 刑務所，拘置所 for his part in the 1967 殺人 of Jack ‘the Hat’ McVitie.
Lambrianou later turned to 宗教 and after his 解放（する） he moved to Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, to live a 静かな life.
BROWN BREAD FRED
Freddie Foreman ? aka ‘Brown Bread Fred’ ? was a 重要な associate of the Krays. Now 80, he was linked to the 1960s 殺人，大当りs of ‘Mad Axeman’ Frank Mitchell and Tommy ‘Ginger’ 示すs.
Foreman (権利) has 認める he was asked by the Krays to kill? Mitchell. He 発射 him in the 支援する of a 先頭 and had his 団体／死体 捨てるd at sea.
示すs was killed for arranging the 狙撃 of Foreman’s brother George. Foreman was 刑務所，拘置所d for ten years in 1975 as an 従犯者 to the 殺人，大当り of McVitie and served six years from 1989 for his 役割 in the 1983 £7million 安全 表明する 強盗.
悪名高い: Ronnie Biggs, pictured left at the time of the 強盗 and 権利 in 2011, is the best-known of the ギャング（団） after escaping from 刑務所，拘置所 and spending １０年間s on the run
傷害s: Jack Mills, driver of the train which the ギャング（団） 的d, after 存在 beaten by the robbers
Police: Jack Slipper, left, and Gerald McArthur, 権利, were two officers intimately 伴う／関わるd with the 調査
Audacious thieves who shocked the nation: Where the 広大な／多数の／重要な Train Robbers ended up
Ronnie Biggs (left): The most famous of the train robbers, even though he played a minor 役割 as a 接触する for the 交替／補充 train driver. He is best known for his escape from 刑務所，拘置所 in 1965 and living as a 逃亡者／はかないもの for 36 years. He 任意に returned to the UK in 2001 and spent several years in 刑務所，拘置所. During this time his health 速く 拒絶する／低下するd and on August 6, 2009, he was 解放（する）d from 刑務所，拘置所 on compassionate grounds.
Charles Frederick (Charlie) Wilson (権利): The treasurer whose 役割 was to give the robbers their 削減（する） of the 運ぶ／漁獲高. He earned the 愛称 'the silent man' after he was 逮捕（する）d because he 辞退するd to say anything during his 裁判，公判. 刑務所，拘置所d for 30 years but escaped after four months. Was 逮捕（する）d in Canada four years later and served another ten years in 刑務所，拘置所. Moved to Spain in 1978 where he was 発射 and killed by a 暗殺者 on a bicycle in 1990.
Ronald 'Buster' Edwards (left): Fled to Mexico after the 強盗 but gave himself up in 1966. After nine years in 刑務所，拘置所 he became a familiar 人物／姿／数字 selling flowers outside London Waterloo. Killed himself in 1994 at the age of 62. He was played by singer Phil Collins in the 1988 film Buster.
Roy James (権利): The 長，指導者 逃亡 driver left a 指紋 at the ギャング（団）'s farm （犯人の）隠れ家 and was caught に引き続いて a rooftop chase. He moved to Spain after serving 12 years of a 30 year 宣告，判決. He was 刑務所，拘置所d again for six years in 1993 for 狙撃 his wife's father and hitting her with a ピストル, and died soon after 存在 解放（する）d, at the age of 62.
Tommy Wisbey (left): One of the '激しいs' of the ギャング（団）, Wisbey was there to 脅す the train staff. Was 刑務所，拘置所d for 30 years and 解放（する）d in 1976 before 存在 刑務所，拘置所d for another ten years in 1989 for 取引，協定ing コカイン. After 存在 解放（する）d he lived in north London, where he 苦しむd a number of 一打／打撃s.
Jimmy Hussey (権利): 'Big Jim' died last year after 明らかに making a deathbed 自白 （人命などを）奪う，主張するing he was the ギャング（団） member who coshed the train driver. He was 宣告，判決d to 30 years for the 強盗. After he was 解放（する）d in 1975 he 結局 opened a restaurant in Soho after working on a market 立ち往生させる. He was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd for 強襲，強姦 in 1981. He was then 刑務所，拘置所d for seven years, eight years later, for a 麻薬 密輸するing 共謀, along with Wisbey.
Roger Cordrey (left): Was 刑務所，拘置所d for 20 years after 存在 逮捕（する）d in Bournemouth. He was caught after renting a lock-up from a policeman's 未亡人. His 宣告，判決 was 減ずるd to 14 years on 控訴，上告. The florist returned to the flower 商売／仕事 after he was 解放（する）d in 1971 and moved to the West Country.
Jimmy White (権利): The 'quartermaster' for the 強盗. The former Paratrooper was caught in Kent after 存在 on the run for three years and was 宣告，判決d to 18 years, He moved to Sussex after 存在 解放（する）d in 1975.
Douglas Gordon Goody (left): Was 解放（する）d in 1975 after 存在 宣告，判決d to 30 years in 刑務所，拘置所. After 存在 解放（する）d the hairdresser moved to Spain to run a 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業.
John Daly (権利): Reynold's brother-in-法律 was 逮捕（する）d after his 指紋s were discovered on a Monopoly 始める，決める linked to the 事例／患者, but was acquitted when he 首尾よく argued this did not 証明する he was 伴う／関わるd.
Bobby Welch: Was also 刑務所，拘置所d for 30 years and 解放（する）d in 1976. The nightclub boss was left 手足を不自由にする／（物事を）損なうd after an 操作／手術 on his 脚 went wrong. After 存在 解放（する）d from 刑務所，拘置所 he became a gambler and a car 売買業者 in London.
Brian Field: The solicitor was used to make the 協定 to buy the farm （犯人の）隠れ家 used after the 強盗. 刑務所，拘置所d for 25 years, which was later 減ずるd to five. He later died in a motorway 衝突，墜落 in 1979.
John Wheater: A solicitor who was 宣告，判決d to three years for conspiring to pervert the course of 司法（官）. He was 解放（する）d in 1966 and went to live in Surrey.
法案 Boal: An engineer who was 逮捕（する）d with Roger Cordrey in 所有／入手 of £141,000. Reynolds said he had never heard of Boal. He （人命などを）奪う，主張するd Boal was not 伴う／関わるd in the 強盗 and was 'an innocent man'. Boal was 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with receiving 盗品 and 刑務所，拘置所d for 24 years, which was 減ずるd to 14 on 控訴，上告. He died of 癌 in 刑務所，拘置所 in 1970.
Leonard Field: A former merchant 船員, Field was 宣告，判決d to 25 years, which was later 減ずるd to five. He was 解放（する）d from 刑務所，拘置所 in 1967 and went to live in north London.
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