7th Sept Prison escapes better in the good old days

Back in swinging sixties the whole idea of a prison break seemed to generate a very different response in the general public to what it seems to do today. 

In July 1965 most of the UK seemed to be on the side of the escaped convict as Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs  scaled the walls of Wandsworth priosn with the aid of a rope ladder before dropping into a waiting removals van.

Seen as a bit of a contemporary Robin Hood, although he never actually appeared or even intended to give to the poor any of the dosh he stole from the rich,  the hot pursuit of Biggs by  DS Jack Slipper acoss the globe had large swathes of the population cheering everytime Biggs managed to escape the long arm of the law. A long arm that stretched all the way to to Australia and Brazil.

At the time of going to press the publics enthusiam for the prison break achieved by terror suspect Daniel Kaliffe from the very same prison that Biggs fled, doesnt seem quite so enthusiastic. 

Even though his mode of escape, by strapping himself to the undercarriage of a delivery van is something not even Tom Cruise has managed to do in the Mission Impossible series, Kaliffe, just doesnt have the crowd appeal as a good old East end villian. But probably still more popular that Prison Break series 2-5.