Biggs Ronald Arthur - Ronnie Biggs: The Inside Story

Ronnie Biggs: The Inside Story

Mike Gray and Tel Currie

Foreword by Michael Biggs

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Copyright 2008 by Mike Gray and Tel Currie The authors have asserted their moral rights

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to: Harry Marsden, Joey Pyle Snr and Tel Currie Snr

by Mike Gray

Since Ronnies return to England in 2001, myself and Tel have visited him in both HMP Belmarsh and HMP Norwich and are still doing so today. Ronnie has had a very rough ride since landing back in Blighty, serving six years in the UKs most secure prison with the strictest security regime you can ever imagine. In this book we tell of our visits, which were sometimes unpleasant and heartbreaking, but during which we had to stay strong for Ronnie.

Ronnie is 79yearsold, totally wheelchair bound, has no speech, cannot write, needs assistance to go to the toilet, is fed via a tube into his stomach and has poor overall health, yet he is still imprisoned in Category C HMP Norwich. We wrote our book to make the public aware of the conditions he is living under and his current situation, which is bordering on grave. As I have always said: Ronnie Biggs is being slowly crucified on the Home Office Cross. The time has come, to take him down.

Best regards, Mike Gray

by Tel Currie

I have mentioned before that I worry about a so-called democracy that can keep a sick old man behind bars whilst sending young men and women in their prime to the other side of the world to be killed!

There are no morals when money is involved. As the genius Roger Waters of Pink Floyd wrote, It all makes perfect sense, put into dollars pounds, shillings and pence!

My great friend, Mike Gray, and I will not be silenced by the propaganda of the upper classes. The world needs more Mike Grays and Chris Cowlins men with balls who will not accept a medieval Britain because its easier to watch EastEnders and let others do it!

Ronnie Biggs, along with Kevin Lane, Ian McAteer, Willy Gage and God knows how many more men, who are being treated like the animal in the zoo that nobody wants to see.

Ronnie Biggs is being treated like an animal WE HAVE SEEN IT!

When will people wake up and realise that the police and lawmakers are NOT always right? Its time to stop taking everything at face value and swallowing everything they want us to swallow. For all these men enough is enough!

But dont tut and do nothing, do something. It may be you one day; its not only career criminals that end up in prison you know, sometimes theyre not even criminals at all, the Guildford four and Birmingham six spring to mind. This is everyones concern. The point of prison is to reform somebody NOT destroy them.

How much more reformed can you get than to be robbed of your speech, unable to eat, hardly able to walk, nearly 80 years old and have suffered countless strokes? Is it possible for someone to be reformed any more than that? I dont think so.

Here we will tell you what happens inside our prisons and dispel the Biggs myth. The Britain has the best justice system in the world mob may not like what they read but, if it awakens one person from their flag waving dream, the book has succeeded.

And to Ronnie, a non violent, lovable rogue.... WE LOVE YOU MATE!

Respect, Tel Currie

By Michael Biggs

This book is an inside view of my fathers life in HMP Belmarsh and HMP Norwich from 2001 to the present date.

Mike Gray and Tel Currie are two among very few people who have firsthand knowledge of my fathers life inside Her Majestys Prisons. Its a real eye opener into the harsh regime my father has had to endure for the past seven-plus years.

I have known Mike Gray since he first contacted my father in 1989, and we have been friends ever since.

Friend (noun): A person whom you know well and whom you like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family.

The above can sum up my personal feelings for Mike Gray.

Once you are in the spotlight there is no shortage of hangerson who will always be there for your 15 minutes. Once those are up they disappear like theres no tomorrow.

Unlike most of the idiots who come up once in a while, Mike is always there, in the background; not wanting any attention, not after money or media recognition, and with a loving family who respect and support his admiration for, and friendship with, my father.

Mike has become different from a friend over the years; he has become more than that, and we consider him part of the family.

Like all friends we have had our differences and always will that is what friends are all about!

When mention of this book came to me my first thought was: if anyone has the right to tell the story of his long-term friendship with Ronnie Biggs, that is surely Mike Gray!

With all of the Biggsy family love

Michael Biggs