Uncovering my father’s role in the Great Train Robbery

Fifty six years since the Great Train Robbery, Rosa Silverman hears how one assailant’s son made a shocking discovery 

Danny Pembroke always knew his father was different. He didn’t look, talk or walk like other fathers. He had no social circle, did not belong to a darts team or a golf club. He was, says Pembroke, a private man.

So when he discovered his mysterious parent had taken part in the Great Train Robbery, “I was sort of like, ‘of course,’” he says. “I just thought he knew them all, but I didn’t think he was one of them. Not only one of them, but a pretty significant one, too. But it was an easy thing to believe because of the way he was.”

Until today, Pembroke Jnr has never spoken…