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malaise

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Tue Sep 2, 2014, 09:29 PM Sep 2014

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah - Great Train Robbery cash was passed on to Catholic church, claims film

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/02/great-train-robbery-cash-catholic-church-gordon-goody-film
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A documentary due to be released next month suggests that the Catholic church in Ireland was the likely beneficiary of hundreds of thousands of pounds stolen by the Great Train Robbery.

It also claims to solve one of the mysteries that dogged investigators at the time – the identity of the infamous "Ulsterman" credited with being the inside man at Royal Mail.

The film-makers claim the donation was made by a god-fearing Post Office worker who was a key player in the 1963 robbery of £2.6m from Royal Mail. It claims the devout, church-going, Ulsterman died in 1995 without his identity ever being revealed.

In the film, A Tale of Two Thieves, the train robber, Gordon Goody, now 84 and living in Spain with his Spanish partner, Maria, identifies the Ulsterman, or the Irishman, as he is sometimes known, as a Post Office worker based in Manchester who told him and the late Buster Edwards which train to rob.

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Surprise - NOT!!!
I want to see this documentary
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