British "Great Train Robber" Ronnie Biggs was rushed to hospital again late last night, it emerged today.
Biggs (75) was taken from Belmarsh jail to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Greenwich, south east London.
It is the fifth time that ailing Biggs has been moved to the Queen Elizabeth from the hospital wing at Belmarsh after suffering a series of strokes, minor heart attacks and contracting scabies.
According to his son Michael, who is going to see Biggs in hospital today, the train robber is unable to speak or walk unaided and his health is deteriorating. He is being fed by a tube through his stomach.
Biggs is understood to have been rushed to hospital this time because he was passing blood.
Earlier this month his lawyers began a High Court bid to win his release on compassionate grounds.
He was sentenced to 30 years for his part in the raid on the Glasgow to London mail train on August 8th, 1963, when the 15-strong gang made off with £2.6 million sterling in used bank notes.
Biggs fled Britain after escaping from Wandsworth prison in a furniture van after just 15 months in jail. He then spent 36 years on the run but surrendered himself back into custody in 2001.
PA