Great train robber, Buster Edwards, found hanged - Barry Rowan’s reaction

Title

Great train robber, Buster Edwards, found hanged - Barry Rowan’s reaction

Genre

Interview

TX Date

9 Dec 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:00:29

Description

Interview with taxi driver and former Millwall soccer player Barry Rowan about the death of Great Train Robber, Buster Edwards, who has been found hanged at a lock-up garage near Waterloo Station in south London where he ran a flower stall. Rowan says Edwards rarely talked about the robbery which took place on 08/08/1963. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Barry Rowan

Keywords

Deaths; Suicide; London; Crime; Robbery; Great Train Robbery (1963); Buster Edwards

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