Let’s be honest: this is pure pop-culture gold. You have a man who once pulled off the UK’s biggest heist, killed a guy, and then ran a parking-lot painting business from prison. Now he’s a retired dog-walker in Spain.
It’s like a Goodfellas sequel directed by Wes Anderson. Every detail is a punchline. The gold? Gone. The violence? Over. The legacy? A bloke who can’t cross the Channel.
He even tried to sell a memoir from prison. The publisher cancelled it because the public was too angry. So instead, he wrote letters to a journalist. They’re surprisingly dull.
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He is 74 years old. He has a wife, Brenda. She’s been by his side through it all. They live in a third-floor apartment. No guards. No safe room.
His typical day: coffee, dog walk, lunch, maybe a nap. He reportedly loves gardening. He grows tomatoes. He doesn’t talk about the gold.
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British tabloids still stalk him. They snap photos of him buying bread. The headlines scream “GANGSTER ON THE LOOSE!” But the photos show a man in a cardigan. It’s hilarious.
