Tony Beswick writes about his colleagues:
Another brief tale and this time about Bennetstone Hall.
After
the Great Train Robbery some of the gang escaped from prison and
obviously had quite a bit of money. One such person was Charles Wilson.
He was rumoured very strongly to have stayed at the Hall. He would be
right up Gerry Adshead's street. Gerry liked money and characters. It
was said that Wilson used to sit quietly at one end of the bar drinking.
Apparently even the police knew he was living there and spent some time
drinking with him.
Don't forget there was a lot of sympathy
for the robbers after their excessive sentences and they became sort of
heroes. Wilson did get caught and I think he was the last man to be
released. He was asassinated in Spain years later. Others got away
scott free.
Bruce Reynolds, the mastermind, after he was finally
released did one last job: he broke into a mansion in Macclesfield,
opened the safe and stole £50,000.00 He thought he would have to go on
the run again but the crime was never reported.
Charles Wilson
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