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For some reason the legal aid board will not grant my father legal aid and it will not deny him legal aid – this has been going on for more than a year. Paedophiles get it straight away, murderers get it straight away but, for some reason, Ronnie Biggs doesn’t.”One of Biggs’ complaints in the case dismissed yesterday related to the disparity between his 30-year sentence and the jail terms of between six years and 25 years imposed on his 11 co-defendants.Bruce Reynolds, who received the 25-year sentence, served seven years.. A man was shot dead after two assailants opened fire with automatic weapons from a van near a Hertfordshire town centre today. He served less than two years of the sentence imposed for his part in the £2.6m mail train heist in 1963.Biggs had applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission to refer his sentence back to the Court of Appeal.

The commission refused and Biggs then sought to challenge its decision in the High Court.The case was listed for “disposal” yesterday. No one appeared to represent Biggs and his case was dismissed by Mr Justice Jackson and Mr Justice Silber. Michael Biggs said that the case had been made impossible because his father could not get legal aid.He said that his father’s lawyers were drafting an application to the European Court of Human Rights.He said: “The simple fact is that I can’t pay for this battle. The judge said that it was “hopeless” and “completely misconceived” attempt.Biggs, 74, has been held in the hospital wing of Belmarsh prison, south-east London, since he returned voluntarily to the UK from Brazil in May 2001, 36 years after escaping from jail and fleeing abroad. Ronnie Biggs’ son said yesterday that his father would go to the European Court of Human Rights after the train robber’s case to have his sentence dropped was dismissed in a British court. Mr Knight was due to go on a camping trip the next day with and the five children ­ Christopher, Charlie, Joe, Vicky, and 11-year-old Denise Worell, the daughter of Mr Knight from a previous relationship. The tragedy has generated a wave of sympathy in the surrounding community.

A benefit evening held last month, which included raffle prizes donated by local businesses, raised £12,000 to be distributed between the families and help to pay for the rehabilitation of the injured children. Joe, who was kept under sedation for at least six weeks because of the seriousness of his injuries, was recently moved out of intensive care, but is expected to have skin grafts to repair the damage to his arms, legs and back Vicky Chaundy has already had similar operations.. Detective Chief Superintendent Jon Shatford, the officer in charge of the inquiry, said last week that he was considering “other possibilities” about the origin of the fire. One neighbour said the mother had held her head in her hands and screamed: “My babies, my babies” as the fire took hold. In an interview last week, before the funeral of Mr Springer, Mrs Knight described how she had opened a side door to be confronted by the blaze, inadvertently fanning the flames She said: “All you could see was yellow, just yellow flames I was by the phone so I dialled 999 The next thing I know, I am outside It all happened so quickly “We are just a small family running a pub You don’t imagine something like this.