News about Reggie Kray

When a dead body was dumped a short distance from his Rotherhithe pub in October 1967, Freddie 'Brown Bread Fred' Foreman had no qualms about what needed to be done. Ronnie and Reggie Kray had warned him that Jack 'The Hat' McVitie badly mutilated remains had been dumped nearby. It was one of the times in in his life when 'certain bits of work came along, which I could not refuse'.

I knew who was under the black balaclava because he took it off, showed me his face, and groped when he pulled the trigger on my lover. BANG! Got the rifle, grabbing my boyfriend Ron's arm. His sleeve was soaked in blood. 'This one's for Mickey Calvey!' Danny yelled before unleashing the bullet that killed Ron Ron.

Call The Midwife will be remembered as the grand backdrop to some of the drama's most memorable scenes. St Anne's Church has gone to rack and ruin behind its stunning Baroque facade, which they don't see. The East End church in Limehouse, England, has been in dire need of restoration and on the Historic England heritage at risk register, due to rainwater damage, cracked plasterwork, and collapsing ceilings.

In a gangland war of words, Dave Courtney was imprisoned in a squabble with underworld king Mad Frankie Fraser for years. Fraser, a man who died at the age of 90 in 2014, was furious that the younger man, who died this weekend, had embellished his stern guy image. Fraser was accused of being a snitch at one point, and the worst of all, especially in the criminal world.

Dave Courtney, who wore a smart suit and often with a mischievous grin on his face, became the face of old school London gangsters in recent years. The 64-year-old turned his back on the world of crime and became a reformed figure, appearing in gritty films or public appearances. However, the police were never far away, always carrying him to court over weapons at his beloved Camelot Castle in south east London.

Since notably taking on 18 men on his own, a bareknuckle fighter earned the nickname as the 'Britist man of the United Kingdom.' Lenny McLean has made a name for himself, claiming that he had attended up to 3,000 unlicensed combats under his name 'The Guv'nor'. McLean had fallen into a life of crime, including befriending gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray before dipping into acting in his later years. Possibly his biggest victory in a fight, though he may have been a nightclub killer after beating up 18 guys so badly that he was charged for serious bodily harm.

In the East of London in the 1960s, twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray ruled the criminal underworld with a combination of extreme brutality and coercion. The night club owners' 12-year reign of terror came to an end on Friday night, when they were arrested on suspicion of murdering fellow gangsters Jack 'the Hat' McVitie and George Cornell. As the men who had mixed with high-profile celebrities, including Barbara Windsor, received justice, the trial was the longest and most costly in criminal history, all carried out under a burgeoning media spotlight. Ronnie was eventually admitted to Broadmoor's mental hospital, but Reggie, who had caused his teenage wife Frances to suicide, spent the majority of his life behind bars. Images: Ronnie and Reggie in 1964 (left); Reggie after his capture (top right); Ronnie's police mugshot of Ronnie (bottom right); the Daily Mail's coverage after their indictment (inset) from their inception.

At HMP Weyland, the jail that once held Reggie Kray (left), a new 30-cell segregation unit was delayed due to a 'unbelievable' mix-up with procuring locks and keys for cells. In a study by the Independent Monitoring Board, which was supervising the Category C men's jail, the confusion at the prison, near Thetford, Norfolk, was revealed. "Unbelievably, everybody wrongly thought someone else was obtaining the keys for the cells and the building," the monitoring board reported.

In a joint operation carried out by the National Crime Agency and Met Police, Essex-based drug barons Robert Smith (left), 37, and Ismet Salih (right), 33, have had their empires shattered. The two kingpins had been operating on Encrypted Messaging Software, raking in more than £1.25 million in sales by exporting cocaine and cannabis (inset) to Essex markets. The pair aspired to be like East End gangsters, Ronnie and Reggie Kray, whose organised crime gang terrorized London in the 1950s and 1960s, naming themselves the 'Chadwell Cartel,' a reference to where they were selling narcotics. However, their hopes were shattered when investigators arrested them in September 2021 after three kilos of cannabis worth £15,760 were discovered in Salih's garden shed.

Charles Bronson, Britain's most violent prisoner, told his parole hearing today that he is now a 'born again artist' in his fight for freedom for the sake of his 95-year-old mother. Bronson, 70, was released after being arrested of armed robbery and was given a life term for kidnapping prisoner Phil Danielson in 1999.

The hardened criminal spoke to George Bamby-Salvador (pictured together right) via video call from HMP Woodhill for the Channel 4 programme 'Bronson: Fit To Be Free?' On Monday and Tuesday night, the show was broadcast in two parts. In the discussion (Bronson pictured on tablet left), Bamby-Salvador, who argues to have DNA evidence that Bronson is his father, can be heard telling the reluctant criminal that he must show remorse for escorting a former prison instructor hostage at a forthcoming parole hearing. According to Ministry of Justice reports, this will likely damage his chances of parole and could have cracked down on the legendary prisoner's freedoms.

Leonard 'Nipper' Read, Detective Chief Superintendent Leonard 'Nipper' Read diligently wrote down reports as he tried to locate evidence and witnesses willing to testify against the notorious East End brothers. Read died from Covid in April 2020, aged 95, and his widow Pat, who also worked on the investigation, decided to sell the never-seen-before documents on auction. They were expected to £700 but they were sold for £4,000, up to £5,200 in fees. The papers, as well as Read's findings, include court files and transcripts pertaining to two lawsuits involving Ronnie and Reggie Kray. The first of which occurred in 1965 when they were charged with demanding money with threats, but they were cleared.

Soho, late 1964, about 18 months before London was proclaimed the world's youngest city. The first shots of the social revolution are already available. The Profumo affair has deposed the Conservative Party and, with them, Britain's rigid notions of deference toward power. Music and fashion are also shifting. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones dominate the charts and hemlines are getting noticeably shorter. However, certain things never change. Soho remains a seedy square mile of red lights and blue films, ruled over by ruthless criminals running surveillance rackets that a singularly tenacious detective named Leonard 'Nipper' Read is struggling to crack. Read outlined the frustrations he faced facing trying to bring down the two most famous underworld figures of the day, Ronnie and Reggie Kray, in a series of undercover reports for his Scotland Yard bosses, revealed for the first time by The Mail on Sunday.

Ronnie and Reggie Kray, two East End gangsters, purchased The Brooks in Bildeston, Suffolk, for £11,000 (pictured) in 1967. However, the notorious thugs were arrested in May 1968 and banned for life the following year, having spent little more than a year and a few months at the house. Cops were said to have been dug up for cops looking for bodies on its 'extraordinary' grounds. Following being evacuated there during World War II, the homicid brothers fell in love with Suffolk, promising to return and buy a house in the rolling hills if they could afford it. In a recent interview, Ronnie Anderson suggested that the pair settled well into country life, frequenting the pubs and rubbing along well with the locals. Once locked up, however, they sold the house for £14,000. Bedfords, an elegant seven-bedroom house with separate cottage and an extensive range of high-quality outbuildings, located in a stunning six-acre setting yet conveniently located in the village center,'

With help from a convicted criminal once known as the 'Godfather of London,' Tom Hardy got to grips with his role as a gangster.' Ronnie and Reggie Kray in the 2015 film Legend were the actor's most popular criminal brothers, and Freddie Foreman, a retired Kray, took the actor's advice. The twin brothers were instrumental in organised crime in London during the 1950s and 1960s, being blamed for murder, armed robbery, arson, and assaults.

In his return to the United Kingdom to compete in Strictly Come Dancing, Bros star Matt Goss has struck out at Britain's 'lack of pride' in their world. The singer, 53, who has lived in the United States for decades, claims that people are afraid of being shouted down when attempting to express an opinion. "I think it's OK if you were born here to say, 'Please revere our country,' he said in a tweet.'

He's one of a number of celebrities to have starred in the 20th series. Matt Goss, the strictly Come Dancing actor, has revealed that he was forced to make a painful sacrifice in order to be on the show, parteing ways with his beloved dog Reggie and leaving him in the United States. The 53-year-old hitmaker confirmed that he is hoping to bring his French bulldog to the United Kingdom, but he fears that the lengthy flight will be a nightmare.