Biggs can challenge parole refusal (From Western Telegraph)

Biggs can challenge parole refusal

4:20pm Thursday 30th July 2009 in

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Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs has been given permission to challenge the decision to refuse him parole, his legal adviser has said.

Earlier this month Justice Secretary Jack Straw refused to release the 79-year-old Lambeth man from prison on the grounds that he was "wholly unrepentant" about his crimes.

But Biggs's legal adviser, Giovanni di Stefano, said the High Court had granted his client permission to launch a judicial review of the decision.