The Isle of Wight and Parkhurst prison feature numerous times in a new book about the Great Train Robbery of 1963 called “The Great Train Robbery Quiz Book” by True crime Author Mike Gray.
The Great Train Robbery Quiz Book has 200 quiz questions regarding the infamous 1963 Train robbery and the train robbers involved, its the first time a Quiz book has been published on the crime, and it also has very unusual and very interesting questions about the train robbery, that many today now call The Crime Of The Century.
In 1968 when Train robber Charlie Wilson was re-arrested in canada by Scotland Yard, he was flown back to the UK and then transported in a police convoy under armed guard to HMP Parkhurst, as in 1968 it had a newly constructed high security wing, known as ‘The Cage’, and when Wilson was deatined he was not allowed to socilaise with the other Great Train Robbers already in HMP Parkhurst, who were Gordon Goody, Roy James, Jim Hussey, Roger Cordrey and Tommy Wisbey, Gordon Goody was the last Train robber to be released from Parkhurst in 1976.
One of the leading and most household names of the Detectives hunting the Train robbers is Ernest Malcolm Fewtrell, he was born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, where his father was a ploiceman, and Fewtrell went to the mainland to become a policeman with Buckinghamshire police as a cadet in 1927, little did he realise that in thirty six years time, he would be investigating the train robbery that took place on his patch.
All the above and more about the surrounding areas are all to be found in ‘The Great Train Robbery Quiz Book’ By Mike Gray, whos previous publication was ‘The Ronnie Biggs Quiz Book’ both available on Amazon.Com or from Mikes publisher www.Apexpublishing.co.uk.
