Brazil Denies British Extradition Request for Biggs, the Great Train Robber

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Monday, December 1, 1997
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
13
Issue: 
12
498
Abstract: 
On November 13, 1997, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal ruled unanimously to deny the British request to extradite the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, twenty-four years after he participated in the legendary robbery of a Glasgow-London mail train... [more]