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Thread #15088   Message #1522649
Posted By: sapper82
16-Jul-05 - 02:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Have You Seen Bruce Richard Reynolds?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixties Great Train Robbery
Not a song I like. Renolds was criminal scum and with his scum friends destroyed the life of the driver, Jack Mills. As Jack was just an ordinary working man of course, he is ignored, but after the injuries he suffered he was never well enough to work on the mainline again and was restricted to Shunting duties, retiring due to ill health within a couple of years.
I think it was 6 years after he was clubbed by those thugs that he died of a cancer that was probably induced by the attack and his wife died very soon after.