Kray twins

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Ronnie and Reginald Kray

Reggie (left) and Ronnie Kray

Born

24 October 1933
Hoxton, London, England

Died

Ronnie:
17 March 1995 (aged 61)
Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England
Reggie:
1 October 2000 (aged 66)
Norwich, Norfolk, England

Cause of death

Heart attack (Ronnie)

Cancer (Reggie)

Other names

Ronnie & Reggie

Occupation

Nightclub owners, gangsters

Criminal status

Both deceased

Spouse(s)

Reggie:
Frances Shea (m. 1965; her death 1967)
Roberta Jones (m. 1997; his death 2000)[1][2]

Ronnie:
Elaine Mildener (m. 1985;div. 1989)[3]
Kate Howard (m. 1989;div. 1994)[3]

Twin brothers Ronald"Ronnie" Kray (24 October 1933 17 March 1995)

andReginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 1933 1 October 2000) were Englishgangsters who
were the foremost perpetrators oforganized crime in the East End of London during the 1950s
and 1960s. With their gang, the Firm, the Krays were involved in
armedrobberies, arson, protection rackets, assaults, and the murders of Jack "the Hat"
McVitie and George Cornell.
As West End nightclubowners, they mixed with politicians and prominent entertainers such
as Diana Dors, Frank Sinatra, andJudy Garland. The Krays were much feared within their milieu;
in the 1960s, they became celebrities, even being photographed byDavid Bailey and interviewed
on television.
They were arrested on 9 May 1968 and convicted in 1969, by the efforts of detectives led
by Detective Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Ronnie remained in Broadmoor Hospitaluntil his death on 17 March 1995; Reggie was released
from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2000, eight weeks before his death from
cancer.
Contents
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1Early life
o

1.1National Service

2Criminal careers
o

2.1Nightclub owners

2.2Celebrity status

2.3Lord Boothby and Tom Driberg

2.4Frank Mitchell

2.5George Cornell

2.6Jack "the Hat" McVitie

2.7Arrest and trial

2.8Conviction and imprisonment

2.9Imprisonment

3Deaths

4Personal lives

5Controversies

6In popular culture

o

6.1Film

6.2Literature

6.3Music

6.4Television

6.5Theatre

7References

8External links

Early life[edit]
Ronnie and Reggie Kray were born on 24 October 1933 in Hoxton, East London, to Charles
David Kray (10 March 1907 8 March 1983), a scrap gold dealer,[4] and Violet Annie Lee (5
August 1909 4 August 1982).[5]
They were identical twins, Reggie being born 10 minutes before Ronnie. Their parents already
had a seven-year-old son, Charles James (9 July 1927 4 April 2000).[6] A sister, Violet (born
1929), died in infancy. When the twins were three years old, they contracted diphtheria. Ronnie
almost died in 1942 from a head injury suffered in a fight with Reggie.
The twins first attended Wood Close School in Brick Lane, and then Daniel Street School.[7] In
1938, the Kray family moved from Stean Street in Hoxton, to 178 Vallance Road in Bethnal
Green. At the beginning ofWorld War II, 32-year-old Charles Kray was conscripted into the army,
but he refused to go and went into hiding.
The influence of their maternal grandfather, Jimmy "Cannonball" Lee,[8]caused the brothers to
take up amateur boxing, then a popular pastime for working-class boys in the East End. Sibling
rivalry spurred them on, and both achieved some success. They are said to have never lost a
match before turning professional at age 19.

National Service[edit]
The Kray twins were notorious locally for their gang and its violence, and narrowly avoided being
sent to prison several times. Young men wereconscripted for National Service at this time, and in
1952 the twins were called up to serve with the Royal Fusiliers. They reported, but attempted to
leave after only a few minutes. The corporal in charge tried to stop them, but Ronnie punched
him in the chin, leaving him seriously injured. The Krays walked back to the East End "just in time
for tea".[citation needed]The next morning they were arrested and turned over to the army.
While absent without leave, they assaulted a police constable who tried to arrest them. They
were among the last prisoners held at the Tower of London, before being transferred to Shepton
Mallet military prison inSomerset for a month, to await court-martial. They were convicted and
sent to the Home Counties Brigade Depot jail in Canterbury, Kent.
Their behaviour in prison was so bad that they both receiveddishonourable discharges from the
army. During their few weeks in prison, when their conviction was certain, they tried to dominate
the exercise area outside their one-man cells. They threw tantrums, emptied their latrine bucket

over a sergeant, dumped a dixie (a large food/liquid container[9]) full of hot tea on another guard,
handcuffed a guard to their prison bars with a pair of stolen cuffs, and set their bedding on fire.
When they were moved to a communal cell, they assaulted their guard with a china vase and
escaped. Quickly recaptured and awaiting transfer to civilian authority for crimes committed while
at large, they spent their last night in Canterbury drinking cider, eating crisps, and
smokingcigarillos courtesy of the young national servicemen acting as their guards.[citation needed]

Criminal careers[edit]
Nightclub owners[edit]
Their criminal records and dishonourable discharges ended their boxing careers, and the
brothers turned to crime full-time. They bought a run-down snooker club in Bethnal Green, where
they started severalprotection rackets. By the end of the 1950s, the Krays were working for Jay
Murray from Liverpool and were involved in hijacking, armed robberyand arson, through which
they acquired other clubs and properties. In 1960 Ronnie Kray was imprisoned for 18 months for
running a protection racket and related threats. While he was in prison, Peter Rachman, head of
a violent landlord operation, gave Reggie a nightclub calledEsmeralda's Barn on
the Knightsbridge end of Wilton Place next to Joan's Kitchen, a bistro. The location is where the
Berkeley Hotel now stands, on the corner opposite the church.
This increased the Krays' influence in the West End, by now making them celebrities as well as
criminals. They were assisted by a banker named Alan Cooper, who wanted protection from the
Krays' rivals, theRichardsons, based in South London.[10]

Celebrity status[edit]
In the 1960s, they were widely seen as prosperous and charming celebrity nightclub owners and
were part of the Swinging London scene. A large part of their fame was due to their non-criminal
activities as popular figures on the celebrity circuit, being photographed by David Bailey on more
than one occasion; and socialising with lords, MPs, socialites and show business characters
including actors George Raft, Judy Garland,Diana Dors, Barbara Windsor and singer Frank
Sinatra.
They were the best years of our lives. They called them the swinging sixties. The
Beatles and The Rolling Stones were rulers of pop music, Carnaby Street ruled the fashion
world... and me and my brother ruled London. We were fucking untouchable...
Ronnie Kray, in his autobiographical book, My Story.[11]

Lord Boothby and Tom Driberg[edit]

The Krays also came into the public attention when an expos in
thetabloid newspaper Sunday Mirror alleged that Ron had had
a sexual relationship with Robert Lord Boothby,
a Conservative politician.[12]Although no names were printed, after
the twins threatened the journalists involved and Boothby
threatened to sue, the newspaper backed down. It sacked the
editor, printed an apology and paid Boothby 40,000 in an out-ofcourt settlement.[13] Because of this, other newspapers were
unwilling to expose the Krays' connections and criminal activities.
Much later, Channel 4 established the truth of the allegations and
released a documentary on the subject, The Gangster and the
Pervert Peer(2009).[14]
The police investigated the Krays on several occasions, but the
brothers' reputation for violence made witnesses afraid to testify.
There was also a problem for both main political parties.
The Conservative Party was unwilling to press the police to end
the Krays' power for fear the Boothby connection would again be

publicised, and the Labour Party's MP Tom Driberg was rumoured

to have had a relationship with Ron Kray as well.[15][16]

Frank Mitchell[edit]
On 12 December 1966 the Krays helped Frank Mitchell, "the Mad
Axeman",[17] to escape from Dartmoor Prison. Ronnie had
befriended Mitchell while they served time together
in Wandsworth prison. Mitchell felt the authorities should review his
case for parole, so Ronnie felt he would be doing him a favour by
getting him out of Dartmoor, highlighting his case in the media and
forcing the authorities to act.
Once Mitchell was out of Dartmoor, the Krays held him at a friend's
flat in Barking Road, East Ham. As a large man with a mental
disorder, he was difficult to control. He disappeared, but the Krays
were acquitted of his murder.[17] Freddie Foreman, a former
member of the Firm, claimed in his autobiography Respect that
Mitchell was shot by him and his body disposed of at sea.

George Cornell[edit]

The Blind Beggar pub in 2005

Ronnie Kray shot and killed George Cornell, an associate of the

Richardsons, leaders of a rival gang, at the Blind
Beggar pub in Whitechapel on 9 March 1966. Ronnie was drinking
in another pub when he learned of Cornell's location. He went
there with his brother's driver John Dickson and his assistant Ian
Barrie but killed Cornell alone. Just before he died, Cornell
remarked "Well, look who's here."
There are differing motives offered for the murder: Cornell's
position as a leader of an opposing gang; Cornell was threatening
the Krays; he had previously insulted Kray; Cornell was thought to
have a part in the murder of Ronnie's former associate, Richard
Hart. Ronnie Kray was already suffering from paranoid
schizophrenia at the time of the killing.[18]
According to some sources, Ronnie killed Cornell because on
Christmas 1965, during a confrontation between the Krays and the
Richardson gang at the Astor Club, Cornell referred to Ronnie as a

"fat poof". The confrontation resulted in a gang war, and about

three months later, on 8 March 1966, Richard Hart, Ronnie's
associate, was murdered at 'Mr Smith's Club' in Catford. A member
of the Richardson gang "Mad" Frankie Fraser was taken to court
for Hart's murder but was found not guilty. Another member of the
Richardson gang, Ray "The Belgian" Cullinane testified that he
saw Cornell kicking Hart. Due to intimidation, witnesses would not
cooperate with the police in Hart's case, and the trial ended
inconclusively without pointing to any suspect in particular.[19]
Cornell was the only one to escape the brawl without major
injuries, and was probably suspected by Ronnie as having an
important role in Hart's murder. But, at court, Ronnie denied that he
had been insulted and that the murder was in order to avenge
Hart's death. Instead, he claimed that the reason for the murder
was because Cornell had been threatening the Kray brothers.

Jack "the Hat" McVitie[edit]

The Krays' criminal activities remained hidden behind their
celebrity status and "legitimate" businesses. In October 1967, four
months after the suicide of his wife Frances, Reggie was allegedly
encouraged by his brother to kill Jack "the Hat" McVitie, a minor
member of the Kray gang who had failed to fulfil a 1,000 contract
paid to him in advance to kill Leslie Payne. McVitie was lured to a
basement flat in Evering Road, Stoke Newington, on the pretence
of a party. Upon entering, he saw Ronnie Kray seated in the front
room. As Ronnie approached him he let loose a barrage of verbal
abuse and cut him below his eye with a piece of broken glass. It is
believed that an argument then broke out between the twins and
McVitie. As the argument got more heated, Reggie Kray pointed a
handgun at McVitie's head and pulled the trigger twice, but the gun
failed to discharge. McVitie was then held in a bearhug and Reggie
Kray was handed a carving knife. He stabbed McVitie in the face
and stomach, driving the blade into his neck whilst twisting the
knife, not stopping even as McVitie lay on the floor dying. However,
it was thought that Reggie never intended to kill McVitie and he
was lured to the basement flat to be put straight by the twins, not
killed.[20]
Several other members of the Firm including the Lambrianou
brothers (Tony and Chris) were convicted of this. In Tony
Lambrianou's biography, he claims that when Reggie was stabbing
Jack, his liver came out and he had to flush it down the toilet.
McVitie's body has never been recovered.

Arrest and trial[edit]

Photograph of London gangster Reginald Kray(second from

left) taken in the months leading up to his trial in 1968. The evidence
from this file and others resulted in him and his brother Ronald being
sentenced to life imprisonment.

When Inspector Leonard "Nipper" Read ofScotland Yard was

promoted to theMurder Squad, his first assignment was to bring
down the Kray twins. It was not his first involvement with them.
During the first half of 1964, Read had been investigating their
activities, but publicity and official denials of allegations of Ron's
relationship with Boothby made the evidence he collected useless.
Read went after the twins with renewed activity in 1967, but
frequently came up against the East End "wall of silence", which
discouraged anyone from providing information to the police. [21]
Nevertheless, by the end of 1967 Read had built up enough
evidence against the Krays. Witness statements incriminated
them, as did other evidence, but none made a convincing case on
any one charge.
Early in 1968 the Krays employed a man named Alan Bruce
Cooper, who sent Paul Elvey to Glasgow to buy explosives for a
car bomb. Elvey was the radio engineer who put Radio Sutch, later
renamed Radio City, on the air in 1964. Police detained him in
Scotland and he confessed to being involved in three murder
attempts. The evidence was weakened by Cooper, who claimed he
was an agent for the United States Treasury
Department investigating links between the American Mafia and
the Kray gang. The botched murders were his attempt to put the
blame on the Krays. Read tried using Cooper, who was also being
employed as a source by one of Read's superior officers, as a trap
for the Krays, but they avoided him.

Conviction and imprisonment[edit]

Eventually, a Scotland Yard conference decided to arrest the Krays
on the evidence already collected, in the hope that other witnesses
would be forthcoming once the Krays were in custody. On 8 May
1968,[22] the Krays and 15 other members of their "firm" were
arrested. Many witnesses came forward now that the Krays' reign
of intimidation was over, and it was relatively easy to gain a
conviction. The Krays and 14 others were convicted, with one
member of the Firm being acquitted. One of the firm members who
provided a lot of the information to the police was arrested yet only
for a short period.
The twins' defence, under their counsel John Platts-Mills, QC,
consisted of flat denials of all charges and the discrediting of
witnesses by pointing out their criminal past. The judge, Mr
Justice Melford Stevenson said: "In my view, society has earned a
rest from your activities."[23] Both were sentenced to life
imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 30 years for the murders
of Cornell and McVitie, the longest sentences ever passed at
the Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court, London) for murder.[24] Their
brother Charlie was imprisoned for 10 years for his part in the
murders.

Imprisonment[edit]

On 11 August 1982, under tight security, Ronnie and Reggie Kray

were allowed to attend the funeral of their mother Violet, who had
died of cancer the week before, but they were not allowed to
attend the graveside service at Chingford Mount Cemetery in East
London where their mother was interred in the Kray family plot.
The service was attended by celebrities including Diana Dors and
underworld figures known to the Krays.[25] The twins did not ask to
attend their father's funeral when he died in March 1983, to avoid
the publicity that had surrounded their mother's funeral.
In 1985, officials at Broadmoor Hospital discovered a business
card of Ron's, which prompted an investigation. It revealed the
twins incarcerated at separate institutions plus their older
brother Charlie Kray and an accomplice not in prison, were
operating a "lucrative bodyguard and 'protection' business for
Hollywood stars". Documents released underFreedom of
Information laws revealed that officials were concerned about this
operation, called Krayleigh Enterprises, but believed there was no
legal basis to shut it down. Documentation of the investigation
showed that Frank Sinatra hired 18 bodyguards from Krayleigh
Enterprises during 1985.[26]
Ronnie Kray was a Category A prisoner, denied almost all liberties,
and not allowed to mix with other prisoners. Reggie Kray was
locked up in Maidstone Prison for 8 years (Category B). In his later
years, he was downgraded to Category C and transferred
to Wayland Prison inNorfolk.[citation needed]

Deaths[edit]

Funerary monument, Chingford Mount Cemetery

Ronnie was eventually certified insane in 1979[27] and lived the

remainder of his life in Broadmoor Hospital in Crowthorne,
Berkshire.[28] He died on 17 March 1995 of a heart attack, aged 61,
at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire.[29]
During his incarceration, Reggie became a born-again Christian.
[30]
After serving more than the recommended 30 years he was
sentenced to in March 1969, he was freed from Wayland on 26
August 2000.[31] He was almost 67, and was released on
compassionate grounds for having inoperable bladder cancer.
[32]
The final weeks of his life were spent with his wife Roberta,
whom he had married while in Maidstone Prison in July 1997,[33] in
a suite at the Townhouse Hotel at Norwich,[34] having left Norwich

Hospital on 22 September 2000.[35] On 1 October 2000, Reggie

died in his sleep.[36] Ten days later, he was buried beside his brother
Ronnie in Chingford Mount Cemetery.[37]
Older brother Charlie Kray was released from prison in 1975 after
serving seven years,[38] but was sentenced again in 1997 for
conspiracy to smuggle cocaine in an undercover drugs sting.[39] He
died in prison of natural causes on 4 April 2000,[40] aged 73.[38]

Personal lives[edit]
Ronnie was openly bisexual, evidenced by his book My Story and
a comment to writer Robin McGibbon on The Kray Tapes, wherein
he states: "I'm bisexual, not gay. Bisexual." He also planned on
marrying a woman named Monica in the 1960s whom he had
dated for nearly three years. He called her "the most beautiful
woman he had ever seen." This is mentioned in Reggie's
book Born Fighter. Also, extracts are mentioned in Ron's own
book My Story and Kate Kray's books Sorted, Murder, Madness
and Marriage, and Free at Last.
Ron was arrested before he had the chance to marry Monica and,
even though she married Ronnie's ex-boyfriend, 59 letters sent to
her between May and December 1968 when he was imprisoned
show Ron still had feelings for her, and his love for her was very
clear. He referred to her as "my little angel" and "my little doll". She
also still had feelings for Ronnie. These letters were auctioned in
2010.[41]
A letter, sent from prison in 1968, from Ron to his mother Violet
also references Monica; "if they let me see Monica and put me with
Reg, I could not ask for more." He went on to say, with spelling
mistakes, "Monica is the only girl I have liked in my life. She is a
luvely little person as you know. When you see her, tell her I am in
luve with her more than ever."[42] Ron subsequently married twice,
wedding Elaine Mildener in 1985 at Broadmoor chapel before the
couple divorced in 1989, following which he married Kate Howard,
who he divorced in 1994.[18]
In 1997 Reggie married Roberta Jones.[18]
In an interview with author John Pearson, Ronnie indicated a
strong identification with Gordon of Khartoum and accepted as true
an unproved theory about him: "Gordon was like me, homosexual,
and he met his death like a man. When it's time for me to go, I
hope I do the same."[43]

Controversies[edit]
There was a long-running campaign, with some minor celebrity
support, to have the twins released from prison, but
successive Home Secretariesvetoed the idea, largely on the
grounds that both Krays' prison records were marred by violence
toward other inmates. The campaign gathered momentum after the
release of a film based on their lives called The Krays (1990).
Produced by Ray Burdis, it starred Spandau
Ballet brothersMartin and Gary Kemp, who played the roles of
Reggie and Ronnie respectively. Ronnie, Reggie and Charlie Kray
received 255,000 for the film.[18]

Reggie wrote: "I seem to have walked a double path most of my

life. Perhaps an extra step in one of those directions might have
seen me celebrated rather than notorious."[44] Others point to
Reggie's violent prison record when he was being detained
separately from Ronnie and argue that in reality, the twins'
temperaments were little different.
Reggie's marriage to Frances Shea (194467)[45] in 1965 lasted
eight months when she left, although the marriage was never
formally dissolved. An inquest came to the conclusion that she
committed suicide,[46] but in 2002 an ex-lover of Reggie Kray's
came forward to allege that Frances was actually murdered by a
jealous Ronnie. Bradley Allardyce spent 3 years in Maidstone
Prison with Reggie and explained, "I was sitting in my cell with Reg
and it was one of those nights where we turned the lights down low
and put some nice music on and sometimes he would reminisce.
He would get really deep and open up to me. He suddenly broke
down and said 'I'm going to tell you something I've only ever told
two people and something I've carried around with me'
something that had been a black hole since the day he found out.
He put his head on my shoulder and told me Ronnie killed
Frances. He told Reggie what he had done two days after." [47]
A British television documentary, The Gangster and the Pervert
Peer(2009), showed that Ronnie Kray was a man-on-man rapist
(commonly referred to in criminal circles as a "nonce case"). The
programme also detailed his relationship with Tory peer Bob
Boothby as well as an ongoing Daily Mirror investigation into Lord
Boothby's dealings with the Kray brothers.[48][49][50]

In popular culture[edit]
Film[edit]

The Krays (1990), film biopic starring Spandau Ballet's Gary

Kemp as Ronnie and Martin Kemp as Reggie

The Rise of the Krays (2015) a low budget film starring Simon
Cotton as Ronnie and Kevin Leslie as Reggie[18]

Legend (2015), a biopic starring Tom Hardy as both Ronnie

and Reggie[51]

The Fall of the Krays (2016) a low budget sequel to the earlier
2015 film, again starring Simon Cotton as Ronnie and Kevin
Leslie as Reggie [18]

In addition to films explicitly about the twins, James Fox met

Ronnie whilst the twins were held at HM Prison Brixton as part of
his research for his role in the 1970 film Performance, and Richard
Burton visited Ronnie at Broadmoor as part of his preparation for
his role as a violent gay gangster in the 1971 film Villain.[18]

Literature[edit]

Gaines, J.H. (2012). The Krays Not Guilty Your

Honour. Biography

Kray, Reggie & Kray, Ronnie (1988). Our Story. autobiography

Kray, Reggie (1990). Born Fighter. autobiography

Kray, Ronnie (1994). My Story. autobiography

Kray, Reggie (2000). A Way of Life: Over Thirty Years of

Blood, Sweat and Tears. Autobiography of Reggie Kray

Music[edit]

Ronnie Kray is mentioned in the Blur song "Charmless Man",

in the line: "I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray".

Ray Davies repeats the line "...and don't forget the Kray twins"
in his song "London", later adding, "very dangerous people
those Kray twins".

The former singer of The Smiths and solo

artist Morrissey mentions each Kray brother by name in his
song "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" saying,
"Reggie Kray do you know my name?" and "Ronnie Kray do
you know my face?". It was reported that Morrissey sent a
wreath to Reggie Kray's funeral in 2000.[52]

Renegade Soundwave released their first single, "Kray Twins",

in 1986. They also recorded a video for the song. Lyrics
reference The Blind Beggar pub.

Francesca Kray, the great niece of Ronnie and Reggie Kray,

released a song called "Haunted". Her style has been referred
to as "gangster glamour."[53]

Television[edit]

The television drama series Whitechapel includes a three

episode mini-series which was first aired 11 October 2010. In
this series twin brothers were portrayed as the alleged
biological sons of Ronnie Kray.

Monty Python's Flying Circus parodied the brothers as the

ridiculously violent gangsters Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, and
chronicled their arrest at the hands of Police
Superintendent/amateur actor Harry "Snapper" Organs.

The Kray twins were one of the subjects of the fourth episode
of the UK version of the TV show Drunk History.

Theatre[edit]
Two plays were produced in the 1970s that were based on thinlyveiled versions of the Krays:

Alpha Alpha, by Howard Barker in 1972[18]

England England, a musical by Snoo Wilson with music

by Kevin Coyne and directed by Dusty Hughes in 1977,
starring Bob Hoskinsand Brian Hall in the lead roles.[18]

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External links[edit]

The Kray Twins: Brothers In Arms at the Crime Library

Krays BBC TV interview (1965)

BBC: On this day...1969: Kray twins guilty of McVitie murder,

Richard Whitmore's BBC report on the Kray murder trial

Professional boxing record for Reg Kray from BoxRec

Professional boxing record for Ron Kray from BoxRec

"200 years of The Krays' Family History" from Time Detectives

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