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Buster Edwards
Buster Edwards (1931-1994) was a former boxer and then owner of The Walk In Club.
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Neil Maskell
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He fled to Mexico after the heist but gave himself up in 1966. Edwards served nine years in jail and then became a familiar figure selling flowers outside Waterloo station in London.
Edwards became a familiar figure selling flowers outside Waterloo station...Recollections of Buster Edwards
He was the subject of the 1988 film Buster, in which he was played by Phil Collins.
Buster Edwards was found hanged in a garage in 1994 at the age of 62. Two wreaths in the shape of trains accompanied his funeral cortege.
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A lovely woman - not a train robber
Neil Maskell felt Buster and Jean's flat in the programme should be clean and tidy.
