Daniel Khalife made a remarkable escape – but it can’t match the panache of some of his predecessors
t is nearly 60 years since, as the Guardian reported at the time: “The 30-year prison sentence which Ronald Arthur Biggs, one of the Great Train Robbers, began 15 months ago was abruptly placed in suspense yesterday afternoon when he was allowed out to exercise in the yard of Wandsworth prison, London. With three other prisoners he disappeared over the 20ft-high wall while his guards, obstructed by men still on exercise, watched helplessly.
Biggs managed to stay on the run for 35 years before returning to London from his hideaway in Brazil to serve out the remains of his sentence and dying in 2013. In those days one prison job was chopping up kindling wood for government offices and packing them into delivery vans. Reynolds’ son, Nick, has just authored an audiobook, Fugitive! On the Run With Britain’s Most Wanted, which recounts his and others’ experiences of a life in hiding, which he says is, in the end, the real test of escaping.
He once told me: “You don’t need a lot of patience to plan an escape, because you’ve got nothing else to do. It’s a labour of love, something you really enjoy doing. It’s like a hobby.” One momentous escape was that of George Blake, who was serving 42 years for spying for the Soviet Union, but who made it out of Wormwood Scrubs in 1966.
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