GAOL ON ISLAND
Train Robbers To Be Moved
(N.Z P.A -Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, Jan. 31, Secrets of a new gaol to house three closely-guarded
ringleaders of Britain’s £2,500,000 Great Train Robbery are to be made public. Reporters and photographers are tn be allowed into the £250,000 maximum security prison block on the Isle of Wight, to which Britain's most expensive prisoners are to be transferred soon.
An Army detachment, manning machine-gun nests, is on duty ait their present gaol in Durham, north England. Government officials say escape will be impossible from the new island prison, the secrets of which include concealed electronic eyes, closed-circuit television, arm-our-plated glass, and alarms to detect tunnelling.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 8
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112GAOL ON ISLAND Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 8
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