Robbery victim Tommy Ward's get-well card from notorious Charles Bronson

The convicted armed robber and serial offender, who has reinvented himself in jail as an award-winning artist, sent the 80-year-old ex-miner and former soldier the unexpected greeting, as well as a signed calendar, after news of the shocking raid on his home in Maltby went global.

Tommy was left for dead by robbers who stole a safe containing his £30,000 life savings when they raided his home in Salisbury Road.

More than £33,000 has been made in donations to a GoFundMe appeal page set up in his name and he has received a flood of messages of support \_ including the astonishing one from 62-year-old Bronson, who now calls himself Charles Salvador and is currently in Wakefield Prison.

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