Jack Straw has declined to endorse the Parole Board’s recommendation and release Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs on the grounds that he’s not sorry. This is even though the
79-year-old rogue – who was actually much better at escaping than stealing – is incapacitated after suffering a number of strokes and now has pneumonia. The Justice Secretary once took a rather different attitude to another infirm old villain who wasn’t sorry either. He was mass murderer Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator. Mr Straw, then Home Secretary, let him go.
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