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Good morning/afternoon class and Mr K. Today I will be discussing a famous crime, the crime I will be presenting is The Great Train Robbery. This robbery has many people involved but today I am just choosing one criminal to focus on the most, this criminal is Bruce Reynolds the ring leader of the robbery that occurred on a train holding £2.6 which is equivalent to about £46,000,000 today. Bruce Richard Reynolds aged 81 was born on 7 September 1931 at Charing Cross Hospital, central London. He grew up as an only child and lost his mum in 1935 when he was only 4 years’ old. He then grew up with his father and stepmother but often lived with one of his grandmothers because he didn’t like his life living with his father and stepmother. Reynolds was living in London during the London Blitz of World War two and was evacuated to Suffolk and then to Warwickshire. Reynolds …show more content…

There was a post office train containing 2.6 million pounds of cash in envelopes travelling from Glasgow to Euston with staff on board sorting the mail. At Sears Crossing there was 16 men ready to rob this train and take all it had. Jack Mills (the train driver) was planning to just pass through Sears Crossing but instead stopped at a red signal. There wasn’t supposed to be a red signal the 16 train robbers had actually put a glove over the green light and then turned the red light on using a battery. When the train stopped the co-train driver (David Whitby) tried to call for help but the phone wires were cut, unexpectedly the masked robbers snuck up behind him and tossed him out of the train and then also punched Mr mills in the head knocking him out cold. The train robbers then drove the train about 1 mile to Bridgeo Bridge to unload all of the money into land rovers that were waiting there. Once they unloaded all the cash into the land rovers they drove to a nearby hideout to lay low for a couple of

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