Great Train Robber Gordon Goody dies aged 86

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Until breaking his silence last year, Gordon Goody was known as the quiet man of the Great Train Robbery. Now, what secrets he may have held about the notorious 1963 heist will never be revealed after the 86-year-old passed away on Friday in the Spanish village he came to call home.

 

For 50 years, Goody remain tight-lipped over the crime that captured the public’s imagination. He modestly tended to his bar in the whitewashed streets of Mojácar while the former gang leader Bruce Reynolds courted the media and accomplice Ronnie Biggs grabbed headlines with his globetrotting efforts to evade capture.

 

But in 2014 Goody finally decided to illuminate some – if not all – of the dark holes in the story of what has been dubbed the crime of the century.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/29/great-train-robbery-gordon-goody-dies-aged-86

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963)