(4 May 2001)
1. Various of Biggs' home entrance
2. Biggs' lawyer on the phone
3. Biggs' lawyer reading today's newspaper story about Biggs
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Wellington Mousinho, Biggs' Lawyer;
"I have the information that he wants to go back to England, one way or another. (Question: What do yo mean by one way or another?) As I understand it 'one way or another' means to go back with or without pardon."
5. Biggs' photo from 1998
6. Today's Brazilian newspaper showing Biggs' son.
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Wellington Mousinho, Biggs' Lawyer
"(Question: Do you have any idea on when he will go back to England? What are his family's plans?) No, no, I don't have that information. It is just that today we are convinced that he will go back to England to serve his time or live as a free man."
8. Various of Ronald Biggs's Brazilian tax identification card.
9. Lawyer speaking on the phone.
STORYLINE:
A lawyer for convicted "great train robber" Ronald Biggs on Friday said his client wanted to return from his self-imposed exile in Brazil to Britain - with or without a pardon.
"He wants to go back any way possible," Wellington Mousinho told APTN "to serve out his sentence or be free."
A day earlier, Mousinho had cast doubt on reports in both the Brazilian and British media that the 71-year-old fugitive would return to his native country without a pardon.
The possibility that Biggs would give himself up - sparked by an e-mail he allegedly sent Scotland Yard - was big news in Britain, a country that remains fascinated by "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.
Biggs was part of a gang that stole two point six (M) million pounds - worth seven point three (M) US dollars at the time, or nearly 47 (M) million dollars today - from a Glasgow-to-London mail train in the early hours of August 8, 1963.
The gang held up the mail train north of London, making off with 125 sacks of bank notes.
The train's driver was hit over the head during the robbery.
He never returned to work and died of cancer in 1970.
Most of the gang was captured and Biggs was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
He escaped after 15 months by scaling the prison wall on a rope ladder and jumping into a waiting furniture van.
During his long exile, Biggs turned his notoriety into a thriving cottage industry.
He welcomed a steady stream of visitors with tales of his escapades and lunch at his home - for a fee.
He also has sold T-shirts and photos extolling his exploits.
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