As Ronnie Briggs dies at the age of 84, the following video looks back at the the young man who was one of the criminals involved in of the Royal Mail's train robbery, going through his life as a fugitive and as an old man returning to British prison.
Watch below a report of Ronnie Briggs' life on the run following what the world called The Great Train Robbery:
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