Prisoner’s Model
( N.Z.PdL.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, May 28. A matchstick model of Sir Francis Chichester’s Gipsy Moth IV has been made as a tribute to the yachtsman—by one of the men who took part in the Great Train Robbery. The model, made in Leicester Gaol by James White, who is now serving 18 years for his part in Britain’s £2.5 million mail train robbery of 1963, will be presented to Sir Francis Chichester next month. White, aged 47, spent six weeks building the boat in his cell in the gaol’s maximum security wing. He needed 12,000 matches which he laid against a cardboard base for the hull and for the ship’s rigging he used a torn prison bedsheet. Before his arrest, White paid £l6OO for his own yacht, Karelia. In prison, he has placed an order for all available yachting magazines.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31381, 29 May 1967, Page 1
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