Train robber Ronnie Biggs says farewell to Bruce Reynolds

Biggs salutes a 'true friend' as the mastermind of the Great Train Robbery is laid to rest in London

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs gestures to photographers at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds, at the church of St Bartholomew the Great in London March 20, 2013. Reynolds, the key planner behin
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GREAT Train Robber Ronnie Biggs raised a defiant two fingers to press photographers yesterday at the funeral of Bruce Richard Reynolds, the mastermind of the infamous 1963 heist.

Biggs, who is 83 and partially paralysed after a series of strokes, is unable to speak. But in a statement read out at the church of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield, he said Reynolds – who died in his sleep at the age of 81 – was a "true friend". He added: "A friend through good and bad times and we had plenty of both."

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