Identity of ‘The Ulsterman’ suspected of tipping off Great Train Robbers revealed for first time in Sun investigation
As the 60th anniversary of the robbery approaches on Tuesday, two questions remain: Who coshed Jack Mills and who was the gang’s inside mole known as The Ulsterman?
In contrast McMorran, who died in 1999, would know the exact timings of the train and crucially, how much money was on board. The seniority of the suspected mole within the Post Office was referred to in a recorded interview between robber Roger Cordrey and Piers Paul Read which came to light in 2019."They showed me a list of the HVP movements and the number of bags.
Three of the postal workers on the train had criminal records, but checks showed none had any links to the gang.In that era it was possible to see from which line a call had been made, but not where it was received. But there were no searches made for calls from London to Pangbourne or the area around the farm, adding to the theory that the insider was in London.
Field was deemed to be a weak link after being jailed for 20 years for conspiracy to rob and five years for obstruction of justice. “One thing I learned pointed . . . to a link between the gang and somebody in Post Office security. This somebody made contact . . . with one of the men who stood trial, and it was this man, one of my fellows in the dock, who gave me the information when I was discussing with him how he became involved.”
He worked his way up and later moved to England, settling with his family in a quiet, middle-class South London suburb.
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