Oral question asked in the House of Lords, by Lord Elystan-Morgan (Crossbench). It was answered on Thursday, 9 July 2009.
Parole: Ronald Biggs
- Question
- My Lords, the Minister has very properly listed a number of aggravating features of Biggs’s case, but is it not also perfectly correct to say that he did, after all, return voluntarily to the jurisdiction?
- Answer
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My Lords, it is right to say that he returned voluntarily—some 36 years after he committed the offence of escaping from Her Majesty’s Prison Wandsworth. Why he returned voluntarily has been a matter of some comment in the media, and I will not repeat it. The noble Lord is strictly right that Mr Biggs returned voluntarily, but if he had not escaped he would have finished his sentence a long time ago.
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- 712 c765-6
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- 2008-09
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- Parole Biggs, Ronald
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