Editing Great Train Robbery (1963) (section)

===Brian Field===
[[Brian Field|Brian Arthur Field]] was born on 15 December 1934 and was immediately put up for adoption. He served two years in the [[Royal Army Service Corps]], seeing service during the [[Korean War]]. Although soldiers in the Service Corps were considered combat personnel, they were primarily associated with transport and logistics. When he was discharged from the military, it was with "a very good character".<ref>Peter Gutteridge ''Crime Archive: The Great Train Robbery''</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2020}}

Field later became a solicitor's managing clerk for John Wheater & Co. Although he was only 28 at the time of the robbery, he was already apparently more prosperous than his boss, John Wheater. Field drove a new Jaguar and had a house, "Kabri" (an amalgam of Karin and Brian [Field]), with his wife at the Bridle Path, [[Whitchurch Hill]], Oxfordshire, while his boss owned a battered Ford and lived in a run-down neighbourhood. Part of the reason for Field's prosperity was that he was not averse to giving Goody and Edwards information about what his clients had in their country houses, making them prime targets for the thieves.<ref name="Reynolds 1995"/>{{page needed|date=August 2020}}{{unreliable source?|date=August 2020}}{{primary source inline|date=August 2020}} On one occasion he described the contents and layout of a house near Weybridge where his wife Karin had once been a nanny.<ref>Piers Paul Read ''The Train Robbers'' (1978), pp.27–29</ref>

Prior to the robbery Field had represented Buster Edwards and Gordon Goody. He had arranged Edwards' defence when he had been caught with a stolen car and had met Goody at a nightclub in [[Soho]]. Field was called upon to assist in Goody's defence in the aftermath of the "Airport Job", which was a robbery carried out on 27 November 1962 at BOAC Comet House, Hatton Cross, [[London Heathrow Airport|London Airport]]. This was the big practice robbery that the South West Gang had done before the Great Train Robbery.<ref name="Reynolds 1995"/>{{page needed|date=August 2020}}{{unreliable source?|date=August 2020}}{{primary source inline|date=August 2020}} Field was successful in arranging bail for Goody and Charlie Wilson.