Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs has been taken to hospital with a suspected broken hip and chest infection, his son Michael has said.

The 79-year-old is being treated for the infection in Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in Norwich and will be seen by an orthopaedic surgeon later.

Biggs, from Lambeth, south London, is being held on the hospital wing of Norwich prison. He is eligible for release on July 3.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw is expected to make a decision on the case within days.

Biggs was a member of a 15-strong gang which attacked the Glasgow to London mail train at Ledburn, Buckinghamshire, in August 1963, before making off with £2.6 million.

He was given a 30-year sentence, but he escaped from Wandsworth prison in south west London in a furniture van after spending 15 months in jail.

He was on the run for more than 30 years, living in Spain, Australia and Brazil, before returning to the UK voluntarily in 2001.

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