Jack Slipper

Jack Slipper ( born April 20, 1924 in Ealing, London, † 24 August 2005), slippers called from the yard, was a British detective in the Metropolitan Police Service. He was known by the pursuit of the robbers who were involved in the Great Postzugraub.

Slipper was 1.92 meters tall and had served in the war with the Royal Air Force. He has seen many successes in his career, among other things, he explained to the murder of three police officers, who ( to German: The Massacre of Braybrook Street ) in England under the name Massacre of Braybrook Street was known.

2001 he was diagnosed with cancer, he died in 2005.

Ronald Biggs

A team of Scotland Yard under the direction of Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Slipper took some time after the Great Postzugraub, 1964, thirteen of the robbers. The criminals were convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison, but two of them, Bruce Reynolds and Ronald Biggs, managed to escape. The police felt Biggs in Rio de Janeiro, and slippers traveled to Brazil in 1974, to arrest him. Biggs hoped through an interview with the Daily Mail to a fee of 35,000 British pounds. After three days Slipper Biggs visited the Hotel Trocadero and is said to have " not seen Hello Ronnie, " greeted him with the words.

The arrest did not succeed. Slipper had not been discussed with the local authorities, and they prohibited him from the father of a Brazilian child - out of the country - the Brazilian stripper Raimunda de Castro actually expecting a child of Biggs. On the return flight, a Daily Mail photographer took the sleeping slipper - and the empty seat next to him. He is said to have complained later that the media had " as a village policeman " shown him, " which is slipped on the floor of the international crime. "

Later, in 1993, visited Slipper Biggs in Rio. 2001, when Biggs voluntarily returned to England for health reasons, pleaded slippers for humane treatment.

Quotes

• " A great man as he had in the underworld a certain weight. " - Bruce Reynolds, Postzugräuber
• " Though my father and Mr. Slipper were on different sides of the fence, there was mutual respect between them. " - Michael Biggs, son of Ronald Biggs and Raimunda de Castro