Ronnie Biggs time from first meeting to Biggs's flight to Brazil. In 1970, when Biggs arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil did not have an extradition treaty with the United Kingdom. In 1971, Biggs's eldest son, Nicholas, aged 10, died in a car crash in Melbourne. In 1974, "Daily Express" reporter Colin MacKenzie received information suggesting that Biggs was in Rio de Janeiro; a team consisting of MacKenzie, photographer Bill Lovelace and reporter Michael O'Flaherty confirmed this and broke the story. Scotland Yard detective Jack Slipper arrived soon afterwards, but Biggs could not be extradited because his girlfriend, nightclub dancer Raimunda de
Chris Brent Chris Brent Christopher (Chris) Dean Brent (born January 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer. He set the Fitzroy Football Club record for most goals kicked in an Under 19s season when he kicked 91 goals in the 1981 season. He had kicked 98 goals for Doncaster Football Club in the Eastern Football League Under 18s the previous year. Brent's father, the great train robber Ronnie Biggs, had little influence on his son's life. Brent never played for Fitzroy at senior level, playing instead in Tasmania for Burnie Tigers and then for Old Trinity Grammarians in the Victorian Amateur Football