Posts Tagged ‘Ronnie Biggs’
Quilting in prison
Interesting article by Maggie Fergusson in Intelligent Life magazine: When Colin Eliot, four years into a 15-year sentence, stuck a bird’s-eye diagram of HMP Wandsworth , London, to the wall of his cell on the high-security wing, the screws were straight on to him. Escapes do happen: it was from Wandsworth, in 1965, that Ronnie Biggs gave the authorities the slip, scaling a 30ft wall during afternoon exercise. And Colin, who was a successful architect on the outside, is crafty. As the dia