Sex Pistol, was celebrating his "escape" from British justice after Brazil's Supreme Court rejected a request for his extradition.The London-born villain had been convicted in 1963 of robbing a Royal Mail train – a crime which has passed into legend as The Great Train Robbery.Biggs and 14 accomplices made off with £2.6 million (equivalent to around £57 million in today’s money) – and in the process the train driver Jack Mills was clubbed with an iron bar, causing injuries from which he never completely recovered.But Biggs only served 15 months of his 30-year sentence before scaling the walls of Wandsworth Prison with a rope ladder and fleeing to Europe.There he spent some £40,000 (about £750k today) on plastic surgery in Paris to disguise.
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