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It has been 18 months since I came back to the UK with my father and I can clearly state that it has not been a smooth ride. While I have been in the country I have seen so many injustices that I wonder if this government has the balls to refer it self as a first world government. To start with I had that horrible encounter with the home office, not only I had one of the fastest denial cases on my human rights appeal to stay in the country (3 weeks, the average denial can take up to 2 years) I had to face a sad adjudicator who said that I could not be granted a visa because it could cause disturbance, can you imagine people setting their cars on fire because I got a visa? Any way moving on, my family was targeted as they came to visit me, my wife and daughter were held twice at Heathrow airport and had their passports removed while they were here for short visits. (This is not to mention the hours without a chair, water or food while they waited) Then we move on to my father's case, he's now 73, had 2 strokes, 2 epileptic seizures, a minor heart attack, 3 stomach ulcers, was passing blood for three weeks before it was noticed, has a tube inserted into his stomach to feed him, he cannot read, speak, hardly writes, cannot walk more than 50 feet by himself, cannot bathe or clothe unaided, we have a medical letter stating that he should receive therapy and daily exercise, he has had none in the past 10 months, should I go on? He is still being kept under a 23 hour lock up regime at top security Belmarsh prison where he is among some of the most dangerous prisoners in this country, this is totally inconsistent with what Mr. David Blunkett has been putting out on his speeches about over crowded prisons and non violent prisoners being tagged. My father has jus been diagnosed with scabies and skin cancer, how can the best medical wing on the prison service in Great Britain justify my father getting scabies?? They cant and they wont. My father has not had a bath or a shower in the past 3 weeks because there appear to be an eternal shortage of staff, he has not been shaven or helped at all with his personal hygiene (remember this is the UK) under his medical condition that would be a scandal, but it is not because he is Ronnie Biggs. As he is not capable of writing he can't send me the visiting orders. When he is allowed to associate with other prisoners they try to help as much as they can but they are always told not to interfere with my father. So only God can tell me when I will be able to see him again. On the legal side of thing it is not much better as the legal aid board refuses to reply or take to our calls and can never justify the fact that they can't make a decision on granting him legal aid or not. Every time there is a different excuse or further questions to be sent...........but they never arrive. What gets to me is that all you need to do is open any newspaper to see that murderess, rapists and paedophiles usually get away with less than 15 years and my father is being made to serve another 28 out of 55 for taking part in a robbery that happened 40 years ago with no firearms used, makes me wonder why the millennium Dome raiders all together got 74 years. In an age where child molesters get community service and terrorists get pardoned for political gains it does not surprise when one thinks of Ronnie Biggs as a political prisoner of the 21ts century, and that his condition will not improve until one of these letters are published and the health guru minded people who run this country feel that something human could be done. I am not suggesting they let him out as a lot of people out there would jump up and down decalring he did not do his time. He is serving his time but should he be made to suffer further that what he was sentenced for? As I mentioned before paedophiles get better treatment than my father. Right now I can only hope that Santa does exist and as a Christmas present I will be allowed to see my father before the end of the year. Michael Biggs
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