The Great Train Robbery (42 page)

Lenny Field, no relation to Brian Field, was used as a front man in the purchase of Leatherslade Farm. (Author’s collection)

Jim Hussey; put under observation shortly after the robbery and eventually arrested at the flat he shared with his parents on 7 September 1963. (Author’s collection)

Bill Boal – the forgotten victim of the Great Train Robbery. He had no involvement whatsoever in the robbery but was found guilty and sent to prison, where he died in 1970. (Author’s collection)

John Daly’s arrest at a flat in Eaton Square on 3 December 1963 was, like a number of other robbers’ arrests, only made possible by a tip-off from an associate who was minding his money. (Author’s collection)

When Ronald Edwards left the country for Mexico in 1965 he had plastic surgery and a new identity. This photograph was taken for his new passport. (Author’s collection)

Ronald Biggs, alias Terrance Furminger – the passport Biggs used to travel to Australia in December 1965. (Author’s collection)

The ‘Grey Fox’, Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Butler and Harry Lyons of the Post Office Investigation Branch leaving court in Aylesbury. (Author’s collection)

John Daly is released from custody after his shock ‘not guilty’ verdict on 14 February 1964. (Author’s collection)

When John Daly was finally arrested, Flying Squad officers barely recognised him as he had lost several stone in weight and now sported a beard. (Author’s collection)

John Daly’s appearance before he went into hiding shortly after the robbery. (Author’s collection)

The shoes that convicted Gordon Goody – how and when did the yellow paint get onto the soles? (Metropolitan Police)

The sentences handed down by Judge Edmund Davies totalled 307 years. (
Evening Standard
)

Danny Pembroke. Taken in for questioning in September 1963, the DPP concluded that there was no tangible evidence to prove his involvement in the robbery. (Metropolitan Police)