Flesh And Blood the story of the Krays

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  • Twin brothers Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 1933 -- 17 March 1995) and Reginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 1933 -- 1 October 2000) were English gangsters who were foremost perpetrators of organised crime in London's East End during the 1950s and '60s. Ronald, commonly referred to as Ron or Ronnie, most likely suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.[4]
    With their gang, "The Firm", the Krays were involved in armed robberies, arson, protection rackets, assaults, and the murders of Jack "The Hat" McVitie and George Cornell.
    As West End nightclub owners, they mixed with prominent entertainers including Diana Dors, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and with politicians. The Krays were much feared within their milieu, and in the '60s became celebrities in their own right, even being photographed by David Bailey and interviewed on television.
    They were arrested on 9 May 1968 and convicted in 1969 by the efforts of a squad of detectives led by Detective Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read, and were both sentenced to life imprisonment.
    Ronnie remained in Broadmoor Hospital until his death on 17 March 1995, but Reggie was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2000, eight weeks before his death from cancer.
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  • @Raven431
    @Raven431 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    30 years turned to life. yet you let a bunch of child killers, rapists, and pedophiles out. UK justice at its finest

    • @Raven431
      @Raven431 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      erm i dont think so, not one report to say other wise, the uk government would have loved to have charged them with that.

  • @nlondonex
    @nlondonex 10 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I once met Ronnie at a an Art appreciation evening at the Tate Gallery in 1965, he was utterly charming! His quaint mannerisms and insightful appreciation of the nuances of cubism however were disappointingly undermined by a violent incident later that evening when he caved in the face of a local artist with a rusty lump hammer.
    Oh.... such wasted talent

    • @nigelperren5714
      @nigelperren5714 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Top commenting!

    • @ToddiusMaximus
      @ToddiusMaximus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Cough cough bullshit

    • @angelahagerman5693
      @angelahagerman5693 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Those boys had no boundaries...but I wonder what made them such gentlemen towards women and children..uncanny...where they got their etiquette training..

    • @pampennyworth
      @pampennyworth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@angelahagerman5693 really! What about the endless string of young boys that both of the twins enjoyed. Not to forget about the threats given to the barmaid of The Blind Beggar pub. She kept quiet for 4 months after the shooting. They apparently used her kids against her. They were nothing but sociopathic nonces.

    • @ObsidianCrocodile
      @ObsidianCrocodile 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes indeed!

  • @Cmoney860
    @Cmoney860 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of the BEST documentaries I have seen. No question about it. Great job on the thoroughness of the information being brought forth....

  • @swarthyjake4433
    @swarthyjake4433 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    both ron and reg loved pie & mash , they would scoff it down as quick as they could make it . lovely lads .

    • @swarthyjake4433
      @swarthyjake4433 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +StamfordMax i make a very neat sausages & mash with onion gravy monsier .

    • @swarthyjake4433
      @swarthyjake4433 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +StamfordMax right on old buddy

    • @swarthyjake4433
      @swarthyjake4433 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +StamfordMax you couldnt afford it old son .

    • @swarthyjake4433
      @swarthyjake4433 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +StamfordMax lesson one . you put your left leg in , left leg out , in out , in out , shake it all about .

    • @swarthyjake4433
      @swarthyjake4433 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +StamfordMax youre welcome son

  • @simonyip5978
    @simonyip5978 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I think a lot of the attraction that the krays have is based on the fact that they are from the 1960's.
    Many people like to look back at the swinging sixties, hippy's, LSD, the civil rights movement, etc.
    The same goes for Charles Manson, he's also part of that whole hype (if he had committed his crimes in 1939 or 1949, would he be as well known?).
    The Vietnam War is the subject of many films and TV shows etc, but the Korean War (1950-53) is much less well known, there are few films about the Korean War, compared to the Vietnam War.
    A lot of people associate the krays with David Bailey, Twiggy, the mods, the British music scene of the 60's, the TV shows and films (Monty Python etc), Enoch Powell, the start of the Northern Ireland troubles, the moon landing, the 1966 World Cup, etc is remembered much more than the 1950's and earlier.
    In other words, the krays would probably be virtually unknown if they had been active 10-20-30 years earlier.

    • @MikeGreenwood51
      @MikeGreenwood51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They were active criminals in the fifties. The documentary even tells of Ronnald Kray's three years prison for GBH in '49 as well as court attendence in the 'Old Bailey'. Their end (Pre prison years) was in the Sixties. The seriously sensationalist criminals of the 1930s are also still well known. Or as known as Mad Manson the Tate La Bianca serial killer. But clearly they have lost some of their ability to sell films and books and many already exist. How about Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Baker Gang, Bonnie and Cylide. John Dillinger, Ed McBain, John Reginiald Christie, DR Crippin, the Brides in the Bath, or the Acid Bath Murderer. I think it is their crimes that got them their notirioty. Not the fact they got caught in the sixties. They were active 10, 20 years earlier and were known. Being sent to Shepton Mallet Military Prison for 8 months in 1951 would clearly have got them known.

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your right Billy Hill and Jack Spot were much more organized and respected than the Krays so were the sabinis between the wars they just didn't pose for press pictures or court publicity

    • @aceofspades4948
      @aceofspades4948 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Criminals that were born during the right era

    • @patkearney9320
      @patkearney9320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yea you nailed it every word you wrote came straight from the atmosphere of the times! But the media made it what it became. Well done Regards Eire32

    • @tonyhoodlass1846
      @tonyhoodlass1846 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The picture of the twins coming out stoke Newington flats was taken by David Bailey

  • @halfbakedproductions7887
    @halfbakedproductions7887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What really surprised me was just how normal, grounded and generally alright Charlie Kray was. If the twins were a 9/10 on the scale of being hardcore and dangerous, Charlie was probably a 4 at best. He wasn't involved in most of their crap.
    He was interviewed on another documentary and talked about his reaction to the George Cornell shooting. Basically, he was pretty angry and upset when the murders started and basically had no sympathy for the twins when Ronnie confessed to him. He gave them a lecture - they could have been something, they were doing great, but they had blown it and the shooting in The Blind Beggar over a petty dispute was just taking it too far because the police would be all over it.
    And sure enough he was right. The law even managed to turn some of the firm's associates to go QE.
    But what he also said was how genuinely devastated Reggie was when his wife died. He started drinking in a big way and was loaded up on various medications, barely functioning as a human.

    • @Nicole_happydays92
      @Nicole_happydays92 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is a surprise how Charlie was in comparison to them, yes he was involved in other crimes but from the outside looking in he seemed to know when to stop. And from another documentary I’ve watched it seems that their father wasn’t around at all so in a way Charlie and their grandad took on more of a parental role which shouldn’t have been at all.

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    FEAR, RESPECT. Those two words are interchangeable when talking about gangs and GANGSTERS.

  • @oliverharrington5460
    @oliverharrington5460 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    30 years for killing fellow criminals was too much.

  • @ammorreztristar
    @ammorreztristar 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Fascinating documentary .

  • @mattfield914
    @mattfield914 9 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    If after watching this documentary you'll feel the need to browse the comments then I give you fair warning... Don't.
    It's like the Jeremy Kyle show of TH-cam.

    • @VNExperience
      @VNExperience 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Matt Field I wasn't going to but your comment peaked my curiosity

    • @mattfield914
      @mattfield914 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Soz bud :-/ my bad

    • @VNExperience
      @VNExperience 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah, I'm sorry too

    • @soldierboy9756
      @soldierboy9756 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      lmao xD I pissed myself laughing after reading this

    • @sarahgooding2902
      @sarahgooding2902 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Matt Field I couldn't help myself and browsed the comments. Now i sincerely regret it.

  • @lewisshane9403
    @lewisshane9403 8 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Tom hardy could be their third twin by how much he looks like them in Legend.

    • @Sniffles68
      @Sniffles68 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Lewis Shane LOL...didn't see it at first, but holy shit....you're right! LOLOL....the boxing pics convinced me...

    • @thugnasty8919
      @thugnasty8919 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      yea he could definitely be the THIRD TWIN.

    • @allthewarsintheworld1823
      @allthewarsintheworld1823 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lewis could be their 3rd dad

    • @danielospino3727
      @danielospino3727 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Lewis Shane I'd say more like Jon Bernthal.

    • @TheKnives777
      @TheKnives777 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Lewis Shane I come here for a PROPER shootout! What you gonna do with
      that rollin pin? You gonna bake me a cake? What I want is a shootout, a
      SHOOTOUT IS A SHOOTOUT... like a Western!

  • @SPARTANZODIAC007
    @SPARTANZODIAC007 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thx uploader,i vant get enough serial killet and gangster documentarys

    • @MikeGreenwood51
      @MikeGreenwood51 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Try '10 Rillinton Place' about serial murderer Reginald Christie.

  • @pggbtwo8455
    @pggbtwo8455 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for posting! Interesting bio.

  • @BritishPatriot87
    @BritishPatriot87 9 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    From a time when London was London!

    • @AlexOjideagu2
      @AlexOjideagu2 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What else is it, skegness?

    • @BritishPatriot87
      @BritishPatriot87 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ***** 'gay bummer boys'
      And you have the nerve to moan about hate speech, LOL, oh the irony of it all! :)

    • @andywayne278
      @andywayne278 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      *****
      For the record, I'm far from a woman hater. Quite the opposite in fact. Consider yourself reported to Google. You basically made a threat to kill. I'm actually gonna take this even higher, no one threatens me with being shot or killed. So you live in Wisconsin Rapids? I'm pretty sure they have a Police Dept there right? You have taken things too far, they will be getting this exchange via an email, threats to kill are serious. I wont be looking at, or reading anything else you post because your vitriol make my eyes bleed.

    • @BritishPatriot87
      @BritishPatriot87 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ben Grimes She was in the navy, how do you get 'PTSD' by serving in the navy?

    • @BritishPatriot87
      @BritishPatriot87 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** Ben Grimes Ben, take no notice of this clown-with-a-keyboard! :)

  • @scottishsov
    @scottishsov 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    check out the relationship between the krays - cliff richard aka (kitty) - Lord Boothby and Haut de la Garenne ( childrens home in Jersey)

    • @granto6738
      @granto6738 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes I no of it bud

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ronnie fancied Cliff but I don't think he ever got to know him

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Didn't know the twins were involved with the children's home in Jersey

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't think there was a relationship with Cliff Richard Ronnie saw him once in a restaurant and fancied him but I don't know if they ever actually met

    • @upsidedownworldexposed6735
      @upsidedownworldexposed6735 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@michaelharrison3602 Ronnie asked to meet him ,but Cliff didn't want to

  • @ColinPfc
    @ColinPfc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My dear ol' mum God bless her was an extra in Sparrows can't Sing, and she told me about the time the Krays turned up on set. They said they should've been told about filming yet producer said he had informed Met Police, Ronnie and Reg took over control as long as the "FIRM" can have 2 minders in the film. I know mum said she met the Twins on numerous occasions and said any lady was treated with up most respect.

    • @Smokeyr67
      @Smokeyr67 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats because they preferred to rape young men.

  • @williamwhitcombe6487
    @williamwhitcombe6487 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I find it interesting that Nipper(or anyone else, fo that matter)doesn't tell us exactly WHY he was brought in. It was reportedly because unlike his bent copper colleagues he was incorruptible & couldn't be bought off by the Krays to turn a blind eye to their activities

    • @0000dear
      @0000dear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your getting mixed up with Eliot ness

  • @OakleyANDSittingBull
    @OakleyANDSittingBull 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    @Abigail Morrison,
    I think the reason the Kray twins always come up in your conversations about Organized Crime "Gangsters" is because they were overtly celebrated by entertainers; charming & dapper in appearance; philanthropists; automatic artillery & sabres; commanded attention & fear from all who crossed paths with them and flaunted the fact that they were *serial killers* (who were permitted to roam free for a shamefully long time in the beautiful, so-called sophisticated city of London).

  • @combedpubes
    @combedpubes 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Forget Ronnie Kray its all about Ronnie Fucking Pickering these days!

  • @doodlebugsofficial
    @doodlebugsofficial 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    50:47 - Burke & Hare we're both Irish and murdered in Scotland Mr 'Criminal Historian'

  • @geor99
    @geor99 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My grandad used to hang out with the kray twins , he was in prison for a few years after what he done

  • @johnmcluskey
    @johnmcluskey 9 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    The Kray twins were friends with jimmy savile and cliff richards and also numerous MP's who were uncovered as beasts.

    • @taffysaur
      @taffysaur 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow, is that really true?
      Even so, it doesn't mean they knew about any illegal shenanigans on the part of those men. Saville and Richards were huge celebrities. EBERYBODY loved them, not just the Kray Bros.

    • @alanplatt8192
      @alanplatt8192 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +johnmcluskey Your Point is ?

    • @suesmith4289
      @suesmith4289 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shit and blanket sticks love

    • @melaniecraddock419
      @melaniecraddock419 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +johnmcluskey one big pedo ring if u ask me ...wonder how far that would of gone if they never got locked up and lets face it they were locked up for not wot people knew about them but wot they knew about others

    • @drunkbyu7515
      @drunkbyu7515 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jon K go back to school n learn some more English before writing a book in comments u u fûckin idîot!!!

  • @pipersson9258
    @pipersson9258 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Kray Jokes: "What's the difference between Eddie Richardson and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist."
    The two Krays brothers are "Walking down the street. Reggie Kray asks Ron: "Do you use condoms?" Ron replies: "Durex", Reg answers: "I asked you first.""

    • @lmjones7716
      @lmjones7716 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stick to the day job: nailing mugs heads to the floor.

    • @Beastgrows
      @Beastgrows 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      PipersSon Shit comedians as well as criminals then.

  • @smithci
    @smithci 9 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Oh god the comments on here, keyboard warriors

    • @lightningshizzle
      @lightningshizzle 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ahaha yeahh and the level of English is a fucking joke

    • @leanneroberts7658
      @leanneroberts7658 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agree nobody would be saying these comments if they were still alive.

    • @Beastgrows
      @Beastgrows 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Leanne Roberts I agree... I'd be scared they'd come round my house and rape my arse (I am a 14 year old boy).

    • @thebenjamins9
      @thebenjamins9 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i will insteaD

    • @miamunday9875
      @miamunday9875 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your probably gonna laugh, 🤣but I'm gonna ask you anyway:
      What's a "keyboard warrior"? 🤷🏼‍♀️

  • @natashawatson6056
    @natashawatson6056 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The first 8 minutes are about everything other than the krays.

    • @cal593
      @cal593 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks

  • @wightangel
    @wightangel 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ronnie had a bad case of diptheria when he was a kid and it nearly killed him. That is what is believed to of caused his Schizophrenia. I believe that if it wasnt for Ron , Reggie would of become a prominent nightclub owner and business man and would never of gone inside.

    • @thedrinkinggamemaker9749
      @thedrinkinggamemaker9749 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They were gangsters, that's all they needed 😎

    • @halfbakedproductions7887
      @halfbakedproductions7887 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Charlie Kray was very rattled when the murders started. He tried in vain to explain to the twins that they could have had everything, they could have been someone, done well for themselves and gone straight with plenty of money. But now they'd blown it and it was the beginning of the end, he explained to Ronnie that he knew what would happen next with The Blind Beggar shooting - police would be all over it and all over them.
      And he was right.
      Charlie really wasn't that bad. He was busted for a few things, but they were nothing to do with the family firm activities and his crimes were nothing like as serious.

  • @MrMzhoney2265
    @MrMzhoney2265 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Dam the krays were crazy as hell.

  • @TheDragonEevee
    @TheDragonEevee 9 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Interesting to watch, wanna get an idea of the brothers before the movie coming out.

    • @Justwatching-yc1sg
      @Justwatching-yc1sg 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The film doesn't look to be accurate at all man

    • @tomasronan
      @tomasronan 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      David Gannon Whys that bud?

    • @TheDragonEevee
      @TheDragonEevee 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ***** Film is gonna dramatize and almost turn them into heroes, the ruthless gangsters, which is fine and expected but not very "accurate" if u care for it.

    • @tomasronan
      @tomasronan 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Theo Truter I for one have never seen a film about criminals, that made me believe that the protagonists were in some way, heroes.
      Can you name a film in which criminals have looked good?

    • @TheDragonEevee
      @TheDragonEevee 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** Shawshank redemption kinda and God Father a little at times

  • @venmxshadows
    @venmxshadows 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    "it's a fucking rolling pin" 😂

  • @truckerfromreno
    @truckerfromreno 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ronnie gave me a Park Drive in 1964. Top bloke.

  • @MarkSmith-tp6zc
    @MarkSmith-tp6zc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The best named villain was Jack Spot. Classic!

  • @lynne150351
    @lynne150351 9 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    I personally think the east end was a lot safer when the krays were there, compared to today!! granny bashing , rape, god knows what else, ron & reg only hurt fellow gangsters who tried to take over, they never ever hurt a woman or a child, they looked after there own

    • @johnmellor2153
      @johnmellor2153 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Lynne fox I think that was more to do with the '60's being a generally safer period than simply because the krays were about.

    • @mattfield914
      @mattfield914 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Lynne what about the shopkeepers etc they intimidated into protection rackets? Wasn't they 'their own'? I've no doubt they did do some good deeds but in balance they were complete lunatics.

    • @geraldinedonnelly4568
      @geraldinedonnelly4568 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I think you should remember a girl called frances shea who saw one way out of the terrifying and depressing life she had with the krays...and that was suicide.

    • @lynne150351
      @lynne150351 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I remember her, but she was clinically depressed, reg treated her like a queen, and if they were so bad why did she marry into the family, btw, my dad is from the eastend and new the krays , just to say hello and things, he said they were ok, you just didn't cross them, they looked after the old folk on their mannor, you would never have seen granny bashing then

    • @geraldinedonnelly4568
      @geraldinedonnelly4568 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      No im sorry read up on her she was treated like property not a queen. She got loads of nice things from reg and yes in a twisted way reggie did care for her but she was property. A pretty thing to have. In his own words "a living doll". Ronnie detested her and reggie didn't let her get away from him. She left multiple times due to an emotionally abusive relationship and whatever the krays wanted they got. She couldn't get away from him. She was a fragile girl who was drawn in by the glamour at first but realised too late the violence and deceit underneath

  • @TheMrgaztop
    @TheMrgaztop 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Saying the Kray Twins will be remembered as "Britains only Gangsters" is wrong and shows how little this author knows about the Underworld of this country.

    • @aceofspades4948
      @aceofspades4948 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh yeah definitely lol made him look a right tit

    • @mark675
      @mark675 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Place is full of wannabe gangsters these days lol

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@mark675 who do you think those wannabes wannabe like 😂

  • @annaelisavettavonnedozza9607
    @annaelisavettavonnedozza9607 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    “Demolition is replacing pubs & clubs”
    So it’s boring af

  • @MM0SDK
    @MM0SDK 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now both gone. We're not here long.

  • @abigailmorrison1996
    @abigailmorrison1996 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think what they meant was that they are the best known 'Gangsters' when i have conversations with people over Gangsters in general, The Kray twins are always the ones that pop up.

  • @craigmaher508
    @craigmaher508 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    cant wait to see Tom Hardy as the twins

    • @VCYT
      @VCYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      But which twin will he play?

    • @itsme1585
      @itsme1585 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      VC YT 🙄

    • @JohnWick54935
      @JohnWick54935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great movie it was an amazing job at playing both brothers

  • @ellataylor6060
    @ellataylor6060 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Reggie could have been a contender or a business man without his brothers influence

    • @MikeGreenwood51
      @MikeGreenwood51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But he did crime instead. So what could have been, wasn't.

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was a pretty good boxer but you need to be more than pretty good to be a contender could he have been a business man if he wasn't allowed to intimidate people I dunno doubt it. Now Charlie richardson could definitely have been a business man he actually had legitimate businesses away from crime

  • @cuddlybear9041
    @cuddlybear9041 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    all big cities have a hardcore criminal element, Freddie foreman has admitted he liked the buzz that crime gave him, Freddie could have been a very talented businessman, he is a clever man, but he enjoyed the buzz that crime gave him

  • @thebenjamins9
    @thebenjamins9 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I regularly walk up Valence road ..and past the Krays house ...and think of what those days were like

    • @smilerdon
      @smilerdon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @graham moore the krays House isn't there anymore it got knocked down and redeveloped, there house was 178 vallance Road

  • @tinasharpe440
    @tinasharpe440 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Richardson's were smarter and much more advanced rip Charlie

    • @pghudd
      @pghudd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tina Sharpe I agree the Richardson’s were the proper gangsters
      But the krays wanted to be celebrities that’s the difference .
      That said the Richardson’s were a nasty bunch and wouldn’t care who you were the krays only went after those who wronged them and added to their gentlemen gangster image.
      I respect them more tbh

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Richardsons were mainly concerned about making money and never appeared in the papers. The Krays were more concerned with appearing in the local paper and never made any real money until they were in prison
      They even kept a scrap book about themselves. They had good clothes and money in their pockets to flash in the pubs and clubs just like today's tracksuited drug dealers they owned no legitimate businesses or property unlike the Richardsons and Fred

    • @norbertalbertz7259
      @norbertalbertz7259 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Richardsons were homosexuals

  • @Victory987
    @Victory987 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One day we'll have the good old boys back. Time always repeats its self. And I hope so.

    • @JakTheLad
      @JakTheLad 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I Eat My Own Poop Sometimes hopefully pal. Hopefully.

    • @chuckscro.2501
      @chuckscro.2501 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JakTheLad 9i.

  • @alanlysaght58
    @alanlysaght58 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    and the Krays always made you say thankyou

  • @coffeecrimegal5968
    @coffeecrimegal5968 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There has been other London gangsters, Terry Adams Clerkenwell and in the surrounding areas like Manchester & Liverpool, The Noonans, Curtis Warren! But the Krays’ are definitely the most infamous & certainly the most unique!

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 ปีที่แล้ว

      What's Liverpool and Manchester got to do with London Al Capone

    • @chrisrowe7503
      @chrisrowe7503 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Adams syndicate are more feared than The Krays ever were and unlike The Krays, it’s an open secret many people have disappeared who have crossed them but they are to this day still untouched for murder. Only thing they’ve been done for is tax evasion. Definitely not a firm anyone would want to get on the wrong side of.

  • @aerosmithskoal
    @aerosmithskoal 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That reporter has a ton of animosity for the Krays. He subtly insults them throughout the entire clip and comes off as a scared journalist that wouldn't talk shit until the Krays were behind bars.

    • @Smokeyr67
      @Smokeyr67 ปีที่แล้ว

      And you would? You might have ended up as a rape victim...

  • @kylehewitt13
    @kylehewitt13 8 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    "london east end" more like middle east now

    • @patrickparker8417
      @patrickparker8417 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +JugNess Certain things in life are common knowledge and you need to wise , im afraid you are letting emotion get in the way of the truth .

    • @1339LARS
      @1339LARS 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +JugNess Most part of them has come to sweden, along with some other sixten thousand, other "rug pilots" !

    • @1339LARS
      @1339LARS 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ***** I bet he is like alot of us, the last figure I read was 16500 "rug pilots" coming to sweden there´s been talk of 15 billion swedish kroner just for the first batch !! How long can we sustain I wonder ?

    • @taylorahern2714
      @taylorahern2714 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, true. I wholly agree with you. Though most of the people living in both nations are thoroughly decent, freedom loving and humane (and English people are some of the most innovative and resourceful people in history, as lots of great and interesting stuff/people/things/cultural items/inventions/upgrades came out of that country, most especially within the modern day, pop and rock musical realm).

    • @taylorahern2714
      @taylorahern2714 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't forget The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, The Animals, The Who, The Police, The Cure, The Stone Roses, The Smiths, Oasis, Def Leppard, Pet Shot Boys and all the others, big and small. What a run of superb, original and outstanding musical manifestations and outpourings back between 1963 till about 1997!

  • @jlaurence3519
    @jlaurence3519 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating story, but why the hammer at the end? It made it seem like it was some sort of American court drama.

  • @StanleyKewbeb1
    @StanleyKewbeb1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for posting. The cop was actually named "Nipper"? Now I *have to* watch the Piranha Brothers!

  • @iskuly
    @iskuly 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Reggie's mrs was gorgeous what a waste

    • @myaselfya1699
      @myaselfya1699 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      🆈🅴🅰🅷 🆂🅾 🆂🅻🅸🅼
      🆈🅾🆄 🅲🅾🆄🅻🅳 🆂🅻🅸🅿 🅱🅾🆃🅷 🆈🅾🆄🆁 🅰🆁🅼🆂 🅰🆁🅾🆄🅽🅳 🆃🅷🅰🆃 🆆🅰🅸🆂🆃

    • @tardiscrew6766
      @tardiscrew6766 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hulk woulda smashed

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Every kid who was born just after the war played on bombsites they weren't only in east London

  • @bashinmybishop
    @bashinmybishop 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is an absolutely brilliant documentary about the Krays.
    For years now I have always wanted to know if it is true of what I hear about the Krays, it is true.
    The streets were safer then than what they are now..figure of speech!

    • @MikeGreenwood51
      @MikeGreenwood51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If the streets avove the under world were safer then it was because murderers such as the Krays were doing a minimum of 30 years.

    • @halfbakedproductions7887
      @halfbakedproductions7887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The streets were safer in those days anyway, regardless of those two. There was just less crime back then in general.

  • @Notmehimorthem
    @Notmehimorthem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Commanded “respect” they know not what it meant

  • @marcuslarwa9098
    @marcuslarwa9098 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s hard to give evidence vs one brother when u know the other one is going to be free to get to u.

  • @daveyork0
    @daveyork0 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You didn't cross the Krays, they used sarcasm and ... satire

  • @stephengallagher5825
    @stephengallagher5825 10 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    kinda weird all these brave people slagging the dead krays off dont you think// very brave on a computer

    • @slaneysolace2133
      @slaneysolace2133 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      People are simply pointing out what they were like. Being brave does not come into thru equation. If you can't identify them as the scumbags they were, you have got a SERIOUS problem.

    • @nigelperren5714
      @nigelperren5714 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah I agree! Nice and safe in their bedrooms! I had a runin on the way home at midnight with a load of young lads with a bag full of cider and cans of beer,they started callin me a cunt,I went over to them and said you got sumfin to say? They started reciting lines from snatch and scareface to me,pretendin thats how they talk etc,I was amused !but they kept up the abuse,tellin me they're gonna do me)so I took the 6 foot2 one clean out! As soon as I did that, they started sayin things like "he's 19 you're about 30!" And he's only 15! Its a strange world we live in! They then thaught i was picking on them! Corporal punishment disappeared and adults are terrified of getting nicked so kids mouth people off,and end up in a pub abit older,try it again and get beaten up,then they end up sat in the corner shitin themselves

    • @thugnasty8919
      @thugnasty8919 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      so people aren't entitled to there opinions anymore?

    • @1000jpok
      @1000jpok 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's called freedom of speech thicko!

    • @zaramariadixon5035
      @zaramariadixon5035 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Slaney Solace dismissing them as scumbags would suggest you have a serious problem pure ignorance they weren't scumbags they were human beings yes they done some bad things but only to other gangsters who had crossed them. They did alot of good too but people seem to want to overlook that which is totally wrong.

  • @donsarde
    @donsarde 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Kray family living down in Ramsgate in the 1970s, any relation to the Krays?

    • @donsarde
      @donsarde 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Of course, having lived in Italy, I knew the " Familia Italiana, " it all came back to me, growing up in an English seaside town, the history of The Krays, swinging London and the east end. Amazing how much the Italians knew about them..... !! 🕶🕶🕶🗿🗿

  • @DarthDuckTV
    @DarthDuckTV 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A person called Tony Costello knew the kray twins, he was a gangster himself, he was younger than them and they used to look after him. Now he is old living in a house near my god brother... And I know him.

  • @miamunday9875
    @miamunday9875 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I never heard of the Kray twins until a few weeks ago but I'm not all that familiar with many things in relation to London, although I've always wanted to visit.
    (I'm from Portugal, Maderia which isn't to far away, so hopefully the next time I go...)
    From reading thru sum comments, I gather that public opinion is either one extreme or the other: Love or Hate.
    I'd likely side with the former.
    I'm gonna satisfy my curiosity now and watch this and see what these two dudes are all about...

    • @futuregirl8803
      @futuregirl8803 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should watch the film made about them called THE KRAYS(1990) it's really good also a more recent film LEGEND (TOM HARDY) 😊

    • @williamryan6162
      @williamryan6162 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      you need a Londoner to show you

  • @leebower116
    @leebower116 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    For some reason I always thought Charlie was a good bloke in a bad family.He seems a lovely fella in every interview I've seen of him if you don't count his drug dealing of course?

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't believe he ever actually dealt any drugs conspiracy charges are like that

    • @peteconrad2077
      @peteconrad2077 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He ran extortion and protection rackets. He once crippled a young girl because her father wouldn’t pay protection money. He lived near me and I knew his daughter. Absolute arsehole.

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@peteconrad2077 nice to read some one tell the truth instead of the usual Kray Groupies going about what good blokes they were

    • @peteconrad2077
      @peteconrad2077 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michaelharrison3602 the fan boys normally know nothing about them.

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@peteconrad2077 I beg to differ fans usually read up on everything about their heroes. My granddaughter is a one direction fan and can tell you anything you want to know about Harry Styles. The Kray fan boys can tell you everything ever written about Ronnie

  • @BaddaBigBoom
    @BaddaBigBoom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This actual documentary MUST be what inspired "Didn't You Kill My Brother"! (look it up, it's hilarious)

  • @sidDkid87
    @sidDkid87 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    *"A Clockwork Orange"* comes to mind ...

  • @jimmarley3214
    @jimmarley3214 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    the krays will always be remembered as Britains only gangsters whats he onabout?

    • @jordanjones6190
      @jordanjones6190 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      The krays were not against drugs and if they were still around, they would try and get into human trafficking

    • @myaselfya1699
      @myaselfya1699 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      🆆🅷🅰🆃 🅰🅱🅾🆄🆃 🆃🅷🅴
      🅲🅷🆄🅲🅺🅻🅴 🅱🆁🅾🆃🅷🅴🆁🆂
      🅰🅽🅳 🆃🅷🅴 🅺🆁🅰🅽🅺🅸🅴🆂

  • @Maru-ge6jn
    @Maru-ge6jn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Guns for show, knives for a pro...

  • @branco6942
    @branco6942 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was Lenny mc Lean's relation to the Kray twins???

  • @felixfox5806
    @felixfox5806 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This guy does make me laugh he's defiantly the type to piss his little pants

  • @chrish12345
    @chrish12345 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    did they really think that they could walk into a crowded pub, shoot someone and hope to get away with it? seems kinda dumb

    • @garnett080
      @garnett080 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They were extremely feared, almost untouchable

    • @unclemort1960
      @unclemort1960 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They ears and eyes all around the eastend .

    • @UNITDW
      @UNITDW 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      chrish12345 No it doesn't. Grassing was not a thing that happened back then so they would expect nobody to talk.

    • @UNITDW
      @UNITDW 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ***** Rupert Murdoch is a media mogul not a murderer like both of the Krays were.

    • @UNITDW
      @UNITDW 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** He doesn't actually kill though. Nor do politicians, The Krays actually stabbed, shot etc.

  • @Aussiebloke311
    @Aussiebloke311 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oh England, your country is totally ruined

    • @dianeroberts751
      @dianeroberts751 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why does everybody want to come here then

    • @petehotton4740
      @petehotton4740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dianeroberts751 good point

    • @MikeGreenwood51
      @MikeGreenwood51 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Imonsmoko,
      If you found one or a pair of criminal books in a City Library does that mean all the library's books are corrupted? Even if it was the Librarian who pointed out to you the book you was reading was a criminal book. Not of the Library stock but illegally there. IE a single dog turn does not the cricket pitch ruin. It may soil an end and smell. But after removal and containment the game continues.

  • @davewalker9899
    @davewalker9899 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Britains most famous gangsters not only gangsters

  • @davidpalmer4879
    @davidpalmer4879 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    wen was this docu made???

    • @danw1374
      @danw1374 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      About 1991, not long after the film was released.

  • @unclemort1960
    @unclemort1960 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A good insight into `TheTwins` is a book written by firm insider Albert Donaghue (Krays Luetenant) it basically blows away a lot of the myth.For instance when on of their firm was `away` they have a collection for the blokes wife then the bastards would put most of it back in their pockets!

    • @searchingforvalhalla
      @searchingforvalhalla ปีที่แล้ว

      He's a grass wouldn't believe a word he says

    • @sophierhodes3
      @sophierhodes3 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Donoghue is full of 💩

  • @MrWeAllAreOne
    @MrWeAllAreOne 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Britains only gansters WTF??? The Adams family made the twins look like paper boys. Also the Richardsons,the Crays were East End Small time.

    • @izaklee7549
      @izaklee7549 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Street Skater 66 And you cant even spell Krays when its on your screen?

    • @leo8438
      @leo8438 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol the adams u kiding? They were unknown u fool the krays ruled london no one took them on the only big major gangssters were the krays and richardsons lol

    • @sophierhodes3
      @sophierhodes3 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No one cares about them though 😂

  • @fgsfds1988
    @fgsfds1988  11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes and a nice place to go on your holidays :))) minty

  • @felixfox5806
    @felixfox5806 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love to all!! Love to every beautiful family out there love to every single person love to allot of great people out there x

  • @OneEyedGirlNG
    @OneEyedGirlNG 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    People can say what they want about the krays but I bet you wouldn't stand a chance against one of them back then. You can only talk shit about them because there dead but back then alot of people did respect the twins and they respected people who respected them my grandad knew them he was brought up in the same part of London he wasn't in there circle but he did know them

    • @lmjones7716
      @lmjones7716 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I classic example of fear mistaken for respect. That mad axe man guy - Mitchell, was a threat to them and they offed him in a cowardly way. They were just bullies.

    • @Beastgrows
      @Beastgrows 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      OneEyedGirl.NG He must've known that the Richardsons were the main crime family in London then and that the Krays were a pair of gays that were only interested in making a name for themselves. They definately had some masculinity issues...I guess fucking a man's ass does that to a man.

    • @jacobfy9696
      @jacobfy9696 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      OneEyedGirl.NG You act as if they Big Boss from MGS. Alone, they would have been torn apart by any other East End thug. It's easy to play the tough guy when you have a gun and 15 men behind your back. Stupid girl.

    • @Canzary
      @Canzary 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jacob Fy and as much as she's wrong so are you. if you watched the whole video you'd be aware they were very skilled fighters as well as armed.

    • @bustamango863
      @bustamango863 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      So I figure your grandad would know if there was any truth to the very well known rumour that the krays biggest source of income was through procuring children for the elite to abuse. Because this rumour has always stained my perception of the krays and I would love to put it to rest.

  • @thierryherreman6286
    @thierryherreman6286 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    There are more notorious criminals in politics, in the justice department and in the vatican. Rest in peace Ronnie And Reggie.

    • @dreasmom2789
      @dreasmom2789 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm surprised you don't have more thumbs up.

    • @nigget-tv-videos4135
      @nigget-tv-videos4135 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i agree, but The Krays werent really nice people, were they? i have nothing to grind with them, but if you are honest, they were out of control and bullies.
      thats the real story. they were not heroes

    • @itsme1585
      @itsme1585 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They would be involved in human trafficking if they were on the streets today

    • @coffeecrimegal5968
      @coffeecrimegal5968 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@itsme1585 I highly doubt that. They had the upmost respect for women! They wouldn’t even curse in front of them. Had they not started to murder people they probably would’ve lasted longer.

    • @coffeecrimegal5968
      @coffeecrimegal5968 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

  • @castra58
    @castra58 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Such poor research by claiming Frank Mitchell was broken out of Dartmoor in 1967 to assist in a gangland war with the Richardsons. Mitchell was broken out in late 1966 and by that time the Richardsons were in the nick anyway.

    • @MikeGreenwood51
      @MikeGreenwood51 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Broken out on the 12th of December and murdered by the Krays Donoghue and Foreman on Christmas Eve the 24th December 1966.

  • @djpythons1252
    @djpythons1252 ปีที่แล้ว

    There no sound on this video 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

  • @musicmann6812
    @musicmann6812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Think about it Yeh, all the police had back then to convict someone of a crime was finger prints and witnesses testimony and that was it. So it was hard, really really hard to nail somebody.

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Back then juries were made up of mainly "respectable "middle class people who'd never had any real experience of the police and would believe anything a police officer said in court. If a police officer said in the witness box that he had seen Ronnie Kray flying over Buckingham Palace holding a machine gun the jury would have found him guilty of it. Look at the Richardsons case:no medical evidence of anyone being tortured, no forensic evidence no " black box" just the testimonies of two professional fraudsters offered immunity from prosecution if they gave evidence plus they wouldn't have to pay back the money they owed. This plus evidence from police officers who had been on the Richardsons payroll but didn't think that they were getting enough money and a few other small time villains serving time who were offered early release to say that they had been present at the torture sessions. A Complete travesty of justice 😅

  • @martadoso9
    @martadoso9 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "LEGEND"...

  • @peterrooke5336
    @peterrooke5336 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I know they are dead and gone but they still scare the crap outta me

  • @pb123996
    @pb123996 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Boxers, Security firm owners, Club owners, Money lenders, businessmen and stand up Gentlemen to those in their manor. (the whole of the East-end of London)
    Everyone outside, and interfering on their manor-
    Their worst f**kin nightmare....

  • @petersutton523
    @petersutton523 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Their name was very very well known and very feared I can assure you of that" says one of their snivelling rats.
    Let me tell you how it really was...
    My mother was a lovely and kind lady and she had no truck with bullying rubbish like the Krays.
    She lived in hard times but she was always strong and honest
    She said to me many times "those people are not men they are cowards and they are bullies, I hope you will always hate them like poison".
    I always hated them like poison and I spit on their memory!
    I value my mother not two filthy cowards.

    • @srmills6139
      @srmills6139 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And some people have the nerve to say that the Krays didn't deserve 30 years in prison. They showed absolutely no remorse for their victims or their victims' families and so, despite what some fools say, they definitely did deserve 30 years in prison.

  • @almuslim2346
    @almuslim2346 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    All who say that east end is like middle east now, I agree and sympathize with you, I really do.. having your old nostalgic town changed, I feel it, I do..
    However the krays where romany, from their dad's side, and we all know that the romanys came from what is Pakistan now, a 1000 years ago, so 20 odd generations ago their grandad was a foreigner..
    Feel free to comment

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think they were romany on their mum's side 'the Lees I think they were Jewish on their dad's side

  • @Spiderwebsider
    @Spiderwebsider 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    29.42: the voice of a feared murderer and psychopath. Not really what I expected.

  • @shelaghmcgee2165
    @shelaghmcgee2165 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this guy at 28:40 / 47:30 who sees things as they really are!

  • @Retroscoop
    @Retroscoop 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Apparantly, the Richardson gang was even more violent, with their kangaroo courts and gestapo methods.

    • @jakemurnion4306
      @jakemurnion4306 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They rivaled the krays and the gang was done in 65. The krays kept going.

    • @justingower4306
      @justingower4306 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jakemurnion4306 didnt do nearly as much as the Richardsons

    • @jakemurnion4306
      @jakemurnion4306 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@justingower4306 that's why the krays ran the Eastside of London like an iron rod ask Cornell what happened when he came into kray territory.

    • @ORIGINOLINDIVIDUAL
      @ORIGINOLINDIVIDUAL 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Richardson's were smarter, more ruthless & made more money.

    • @jakemurnion4306
      @jakemurnion4306 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ORIGINOLINDIVIDUAL so that's why the leader got arrested in 66 watching the world cup and after that the gang ceased to exist. Ok bro think what you want.

  • @bannanaskinman
    @bannanaskinman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    They never hurt the innocent intentionally, no children or women were harmed, you do something bad you get punished, that's the way they worked, if you had nothing to do with them they had nothing to do with you.

    • @oskars82
      @oskars82 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      if in restaurant one of them said he needs your table and u refused u would be fucked. Good lads, respect. But don't be naive.

    • @Beastgrows
      @Beastgrows 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      bannanaskinman Get your fucking facts right, they both raped under age boys...so naive it's unreal!!!

    • @annnee6818
      @annnee6818 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bannanaskinman Bollox. Do more research.

    • @itsme1585
      @itsme1585 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bannanaskinman if they were on the streets today they would be involved in trafficking young boys
      Please wake up

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They done something bad they got punished that's the way it was

  • @davemillwall5420
    @davemillwall5420 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Billy Hill was "guv'nor" before them. He brought them up through the ranks.

  • @darrenfry4695
    @darrenfry4695 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When nipper read and his team see the whole kray gang and the twins themselves sent down nipper had taken his hard working team to a west end restaurant and they all sat down to champagne and for dinner they had cray fish ,,true fact ,,that's nipper reads way of saying we've done ya Ron and reg your finished

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bollox

    • @darrenfry4695
      @darrenfry4695 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chucky2316 you muggy little twerp

  • @pipersson9258
    @pipersson9258 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    'Organised Crime'? Give-over, they were operating out of the local billiard hall, when it closed they went to their mothers Council house grot to plan the next 5 year leap, all they had was a car park fiddle at Heathrow Airport going for them, when it was stopped by the Police they folded into a life of petty criminals and 'threats' (Begging with violence). The Army have a file on them which makes hilarious reading, they tried taking the mickey, failed, then ran, Ron last 24 hours in uniform before jumping the fence around the back of the base and thumbing it home to his MAM?

    • @pipersson9258
      @pipersson9258 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Jon K . Reference: THE KRAYS ARMY FILE and Court Martial Military Court Appearances. It's all on the internet, listed as Offences Against Military Discipline. The been repeated in numerous books and paperbacks.

    • @bruceroberts3835
      @bruceroberts3835 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +PipersSon Someone is looking for you...

    • @pipersson9258
      @pipersson9258 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Bruce Roberts . Meet me outside 134 Whitechapel Road, and come armed and well prepared. I will be waiting .........

    • @bruceroberts3835
      @bruceroberts3835 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      PipersSon It's not me looking for you pal, it's someone else...they will outside Alvin Lee waiting for you

    • @Raymondspongey
      @Raymondspongey 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +PipersSon It was the Richardsons who ran the car park not the twins -you got it wrong mate.The twins wanted in on it but The Richardsons weren't interested.

  • @pb123996
    @pb123996 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not quite, Billy Hill and Jack Spot came before them and no Mafia organization ever materialized in Britain. Tho the Kray's were major players in organized crime and highly respected by many, they did play up for the camera's. Hence their down falls. Many other ruthless gangs were well established at and around the same time.

  • @hippocritic
    @hippocritic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "John McVicar, Journalist"? Not convicted armed robber and former escaped prisoner?

  • @dave03085
    @dave03085 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What's more scary get cut up by the krays or bummed by them?

    • @borstalD91239
      @borstalD91239 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Karen Tregaskin hahahaaa good1

    • @Ilicka77
      @Ilicka77 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +dave03085 its not called bummed lol, its love brother

  • @daniellethomas7792
    @daniellethomas7792 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    These Kray brothers were "Beasts"; they were not men who were trying to be gangsters. They were truly just persons who have the mentality and nature of Beasts, and I don't call them animals because even a lowly animal would have more morals.
    Also, they were allowed to continue and extend their violence upon others because the people in their community initially respected them for their violence. And it seems the people in the community had a degree of affinity in their own natures to the Beast quality in the nature and mentality of the Krays, but just wasn't as deep as the Beast nature in the Krays.
    The violence the Krays did, especially the torture and the murders was not prompted by any need to defend themselves nor even robbery but just their sheer pleasure to inflict torturous pain and to have the thrill of the power to take another's life. Therefore, for the people who witnessed especially the murder in the bar and then to know of the Krays ongoing acts of murder and torture; ...although the people of the community had eventually become nearly paralyzed with fear; nevertheless, their lack of witnessing against the Krays continues to show that these people had a degree of affinity with the animalistic nature of the Krays and that is why they initially tolerated and respected the violent behavior of the Krays and did not witness. Also, the community could have formed their own secret group and killed the Krays, since they literally had a wild Beast in the community.
    And lets be honest: had the Krays been Black men or some other men of color the people of this community would have no confusion of perception and thus would have readily seen their violence as just Beasts, not gangster, and would have witnessed against the Krays or killed them to rid such a Beast from continuing behavior that the Krays had evidenced they would not stop. Also, the police and courts would have truly gone after the Krays instead of being so overly kind in their perception of them that continued to allow a tolerance of the violence. Consequently, the community and the police sustained a "support" of the Krays and therefore got what they seemed to Respect and relatively deserved by that Respect.

    • @Raymondspongey
      @Raymondspongey 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      WOW ! That is amazing insight -So, according to you , if the Krays were 'persons of colour' then they would never have stood a chance to commit all those crimes -because the authorities and the community would never stand for blacks or foreigners committing such crimes ? Amazing how nowadays RACE seems to apply to stories even in which, race plays no conceivable part in proceedings whatsoever. Race has and had nothing to do with this part of history,no matter which way you dice and slice it ! Have a look at the current and horrific stabbing culture that is going on in London's (primarily) 'black' communities , then tell me about 'race' and crime. Maybe it's all because of slavery ....

    • @mark675
      @mark675 ปีที่แล้ว

      always keen to talk about skin colour, give your head a wobble lol

  • @edwinvancooten7630
    @edwinvancooten7630 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Dutch Masters 400 years before the Krays😎

  • @jaynelibertine5116
    @jaynelibertine5116 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The rise of the Krays and The fall of the Krays are better films than legend imo 💙

  • @chrisl9620
    @chrisl9620 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've yet to meet a cockney, that ain't related or their aunt lived next door to, or their grandad delivered the krays milk or lived two doors from the blind beggar pub.

    • @sirandrelefaedelinoge
      @sirandrelefaedelinoge 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh, gawd blimey, Lord love a duck, mate...

    • @iphonemodDOTcom
      @iphonemodDOTcom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My aunt used to iron there jock straps,but weired cos they were waring them at the time.

    • @MikeGreenwood51
      @MikeGreenwood51 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Christ Knows.
      So what did you mean? Did you mean their aunts and uncles and Irish Jewish grand parents were having sex with so many that most of Bethal green was related to the Krays?

  • @darrenfry4695
    @darrenfry4695 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fred foreman and a few other chaps was planning on killing the krays but nipper Reed arrested them so in a way the police saved the krays twins life's LoL 😂 but they definitely was both gonna get another belly button each, and would of saved a lot of people a lot of bird .

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 ปีที่แล้ว

      What he doesnt tell ya he couldn't do that

  • @jpb3000
    @jpb3000 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    When Bill talks about the old days and fighting with jack spot , does he mean sonny Sullivan ( Sony the hand ) ??

    • @Beastgrows
      @Beastgrows 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unity Valkyrie Mitford Fuckin' yids!!

    • @jpb3000
      @jpb3000 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@flyonthewall4617 ok thanks ..

  • @michaelharrison3602
    @michaelharrison3602 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There wasn't a long standing feud between the Krays and Richardsons they worked together more often than they quarreled there was some of rivalry as there was between any two businesses 😅

  • @jimusgrimus
    @jimusgrimus 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The train Robbers families said the same...........'firteeee years? Leave it aht.......firty faking years.............your 'aving a geraff........ain't ya?

    • @Beastgrows
      @Beastgrows 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      kelly haha