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It took up to five years in some cases (like Bruce Reynolds, who fled straight from the hideout to Mexico), but eventually, all but two identified robbers were caught and convicted, sentenced to a total of 307 years in prison. In their retributive fervor, however, the courts also convicted two men who were later exonerated, one who helped to rent the hideout in exchange for a cut of the take but had no idea of the scale of the robbery and another who just gave one of the gang members a couch to crash on. The latter ended up dying in prison, so that’s less than ideal.
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The Great Train Robbers had sort of become folk heroes, so not long after he was imprisoned, one of the gang members, Charles Wilson, was freed by a fan club of London criminals. He fled to Mexico to hang out with Reynolds but decided he preferred snow and relocated to Montreal, where he and his family became such pillars of the community that it lobbied to let his family stay after he was recaptured four years later. Ronnie Biggs made his own impressive escape by leaping over a wall and into a furniture truck and actually managed to live undetected in Australia and Brazil until 2001, when he returned to the U.K. for medical treatment. There’s really no beating that N.H.S.
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