Jack slipper

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Jack Slipper (born April 20, 1924 in Ealing , London , † August 24, 2005 ), called Slipper from the Yard , was a British detective with the Metropolitan Police Service . He was best known for tracking the robbers involved in the Great Mail Train Robbery .

Slipper was six feet tall and had served in the Royal Air Force during the war. He has had many successes in his career, including solving the murder of three police officers, known in England as the Massacre of Braybrook Street (in German: The Braybrook Street Massacre ).

He was diagnosed with cancer in 2001 and died in 2005.

Ronald Biggs

A Scotland Yard team, led by Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Slipper, captured thirteen of the robbers some time after the Great Mail Train Robbery in 1964. The criminals were convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison, but two of them, Bruce Reynolds and Ronald Biggs , escaped. Police tracked Biggs down in Rio de Janeiro , and Slipper traveled to Brazil in 1974 to arrest him. Biggs was hoping for a fee of £ 35,000 through an interview with the Daily Mail . After three days, Slipper visited Biggs in the Hotel Trocadero and is said to have greeted him with the words “Hello Ronnie, haven't seen him for a long time”.

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

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

Quotes

  • “A tall man like him had a certain weight in the underworld.” - Bruce Reynolds , mail robber
  • “Although 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

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SURNAME Slipper, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slipper by the yard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British detective
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Ealing , London
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2005