He Was the Brilliant Detective Who Tracked Down the Great Train Robber - Twice! Here the Only Journalist to Witness Their Rio Showdown Remembers... The Slipper Who(Almost) Brought Ronnie Biggs to Heel
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ONE of Britain's most celebrated detectives has died aged 81.
Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Slipper helped trace those responsible for stealing more than Pounds 2.5 million - Pounds 40 million today - from a Royal Mail train in 1963. When Ronnie Biggs later escaped from jail, it was Slipper who arrested him in Rio de Janeiro. Here, the Mail's COLIN MACKENZIE, the only journalist present, recalls Slipper's career and its most dramatic moment.See the full content of this document
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He Was the Brilliant Detective Who Tracked Down the Great Train Robber - Twice! Here the Only Journalist to Witness Their Rio Showdown Remembers... The Slipper Who(Almost) Brought Ronnie Biggs to Heel
THE atmosphere in room 909 of the Trocadero hotel, Rio de Janeiro, was crackling with tension as Ronnie Biggs, a fugitive for more than eight years from Wandsworth prison, posed for pictures and told his extraordinary story of life on the run.
It was 10am on the morning of Friday, January 31, 1974, and Biggs, who had escaped from prison in July 1965, was running out of ideas about how...See the full content of this document
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