LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Buster Edwards’ criminal career

Genre

News report; Interview; Obituary

TX Date

29 Nov 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:02:35

Description

Great train robber Buster Edwards has been found hanged in a lock-up garage near London’s Waterloo station where he had a flower stall. He is believed to have committed suicide. Clodagh Kennedy looks back on his criminal career with archive interviews with Bruce Edwards, one of the train robbery gang; Buster Edwards; Ronnie Biggs, another gang member, speaking from his new home, Brazil.

Contributors

Clodagh Kennedy; Buster Edwards; Bruce Edwards; Ronald Biggs

Keywords

Deaths; Suicide; Criminals; Robbery; Great Train Robbery (1963); Jack Mills; Buster Edwards

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