GREAT Train robber Bob Welch found out the hard way that there is no honour among thieves. His greatest coup turned out to be the worst when he was betrayed to police and had his loot stolen by tho…
Bob Welch was the last surviving member of the Great Train Robbery gang until his death was announced this weekage 94 — had been tipped off by a corrupt cop that he was in the frame for the record-breaking 1963 heist.Mystery of Great Train Robbery's Third Man 'solved' with secret cop files
He had escaped without charges with the help of corrupt detective Dave Dilley when, in late 1961, hundreds of bottles of stolen Soon afterwards they were invited by another team of South West London villains to take part in the Great Train Robbery. Welch’s fate was sealed when an associate of the robbers failed to burn down their hideout, which yielded an Aladdin’s Cave of forensic clues.Thanks to the corrupt Dilley, who later became a commander in the Met’s intelligence section, Welch got wind that he was about to be arrested and disappeared.before going to stay at the isolated Beaford House Hotel in North Devon, where he was joined by Pembroke and three other men, one of whom was the dapper Charles Lilley.
The church vicar was even invited by the men to join in a card game and they conspired to lose against him for Under arrest, he claimed he had been with Lilley and pickpocket Jimmy Kensit on the morning of the robbery.
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