Great Train Robbery (1963) and 5 years for obstructing justice), which was later reduced to five. He was released from jail in 1967 and went to live in north London. John Denby Wheater (born 17 December 1921, died 18 July 1985), was the employer of Brian Field. He was convicted and sentenced to 3 years. He died in Harrowgate, near Leeds aged 63 years old. At 5 am, Chief Superintendent Malcolm Fewtrell, head of the Buckinghamshire Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID), located at Aylesbury, arrived at the crime scene, where he supervised evidence-gathering. He then went to Cheddington railway station, where the train had
Great Train Robbery (1963) notes whose serial numbers were known and the rest of the money was completely untraceable. The £5 notes were of two different types, because in 1957 the British Government had begun to replace the large white notes with smaller blue ones. The final changeover had not been completed by the time of the robbery. The white notes quickly became far more conspicuous to use, making it harder for them to be spent. Although within six months of the robbery ten of the robbers had been locked up awaiting trial and three others were wanted criminals on the run, very little