Original sentence: After being convicted and jailed, he escaped from HM Prison Wandsworth on 7 July 1965 by scaling the wall by rope ladder.In the course of the robbery the train driver was badly beaten with an iron bar.Together with other gang members, he stole £2.6 million from a mail train on 8 August 1963 (his 34th birthday)the equivalent of around £40 million ($67 million) today - after holding up a mail train from Glasgow to London in the early hours of the morning
Edited sentence: After being convicted and jailed, Biggs escaped from HM Prison Wandsworth on 7 July 1965 by scaling the wall by rope ladder.In the course of the robbery the engine driver was badly beaten with an iron bar.Together with other gang members, he stole £2.6 million from a mail train on 8 August 1963 (his 34th birthday), the equivalent of around £40 million ($67 million) today, after holding up a mail train from Glasgow to London in the early hours of the morning