Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs is making a new bid to be released from prison on compassionate grounds.
Biggs (77) last month welcomed being moved to a lower security prison but his lawyers have said he wants to spend his remaining years with his family.
He is partially paralysed and can barely speak after suffering several strokes and was been transferred from Belmarsh prison to a unit at Norwich jail for elderly life-sentenced inmates, even though he is not serving a life sentence.
His son Michael, on a business trip to Brazil, said: "He still cannot speak hardly walk or read or write but the Government still thinks fit to keep him in jail. Hopefully they will release him now"
Giovanni Di Stefano, a member of Biggs' legal team, said in an email sent to Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor: "Our client has fully appreciated this move but we are instructed to state that the said transfer cannot for one moment compensate the need and urgency for our client to spend his remaining period of life with his family for compassionate reasons."
The train robber has been in the UK since May 2001 after giving himself up to British authorities.
Biggs was part of a gang which ambushed a Glasgow to London night train in August 1963, escaping with £2.6 million cash - a record haul at the time.
He was caught and jailed for 30 years but escaped after 15 months and fled to Australia and later Brazil.
The Home Office has previously refused to allow his release on compassionate grounds.