RELATING to Anthony Bennett's letter over the Ronald Arthur Biggs affair, which sadly is brimming with inadmissible, inaccurate, hearsay evidence:

1) Det Chief Superintendent Jack Slipper (nicknamed Slip-Up of the Yard) flew out to Rio De Janeiro only to attempt to arrest Biggs and Slip-Up failed because he tried to ride roughshod over the Brazilian legal authorities.

2) Relating to the tragic death of Crewe train driver Jack Mills. The West Cheshire coroner clearly furnished on Jack Mills' death certificate that he died as a direct result of a) chronic lymphatic leukaemia; b) bronchial pneumonia.

Furthermore, driver Mills stated to the distinguished writer, Peta Fordham, the wife of barrister Wilfred Fordham, who defended both Biggs and Gordon Goody at Aylesbury Crown Court before his Lordship Mr Justice Edmund Davies in 1964 . . . 'that the Great Train Robbers had treated him like a gentleman.'

Biggs was not a paedophile, drug dealer or murderer, yet he was sentenced to an inhumane 30-year stretch. It didn't take the British Government 30 years to forgive Nazi Germany or Japan for their appalling shocking atrocities.

Biggs, at 71, is a frail, ill man who has suffered three strokes, cannot speak and is said to be suffering from Parkinsons's Disease, yet without the slightest shred of compassion, the prison authorities at London's Belmarsh top security prison have handed a dying old man a sentence sheet advising Biggs that he has another 28 years to serve and won't be eligible for parole for at least 14 years. The Met Police were involved in a conspiracy in London's Soho on March 9, 1981, to kidnap Biggs from a restaurant in Rio de Janeiro on March 16, 1981, after being administered with a noxious gas when he ending up fighting extradition from Barbados. All very Christian behaviour, I don't think. However, since Biggs's escape from HM Prison Wandsworth on July 8, 1965, he appears to have forfeited all rights of protection by the law with enough whitewash to mark every football pitch in the UK.

Having known Biggs, Buster Edwards and Gordon Goody since the early 70s and having written several articles in crime mags and national newspapers on the Great Train Robber, and been asked in writing by Biggs to write a book in conjunction with him called Crime and Punishment, which I refused, I feel that I can write more factually than many.

While our British outmoded, outdated legal system is being dictated to by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which allows two evil killers of little Jamie Bulger to be allowed to walk free and Cherie Blair QC fights for the release of a paedophile with 27 convictions against little children.

Evan Williams, Carr Meadow,Clayton-le-Woods.