Great Train Robbery, The by Cook Andrew

Author:Cook, Andrew
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752492223
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

At 6.45 pm on Saturday, 24 August 1963, in company with Detective Sergeant Church, I saw Ronald Biggs at his home at 37 Alpine Road, Redhill. His wife was present at the time. I told him that we were police officers from Reigate and that we had heard that his wife had recently been spending quite a lot of money. He said, ‘Yes, I expect she has. I won £510 at the races and we decided to spend that and use the money I get from the business towards the houses’.

I told him that I understood that the bookmaker concerned was a man named Inkpen and he said, ‘Yes’. I told him that Inkpen had already been seen and that we had verified that he had, in fact, won £510, and that I understood that the winnings had been collected by a man named Stripp. He said, ‘Yes, he is my partner’. I then asked him why he had not collected the money himself, and he said, ‘I had to go down to Brighton that day so he collected it for me.’ I asked him if he knew any of the men who were wanted in connection with the train robbery in Buckinghamshire, and he said, ‘I knew Reynolds some years ago. I met him when we were doing time together in Wandsworth. Then he used to come down to Mrs Atkins place at Malmstone Avenue when I used to go there, and I met him there once or twice afterwards, but I haven’t seen him now for about three years’.1

I then asked him if any cases or boxes had been brought to his house recently, and he said, ‘No. We had a party last night and we brought a crate of beer in, but that’s all that’s been brought in here’.2

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