Animal lover Mrs Trueman's funeral carriage was pulled by the horses used in the recent funeral of East End gangster Reggie Kray. |
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The Kray twins and their brother Charlie eventually ended as guests of Her Majesty in Parkhurst prison. |
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The language, the violence, the unapologetic maleness of gangland bonding mixes the excesses of laddish culture with an affectionate tribute to Kray Brothers brutalism. |
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Collectively, they're as sinister as the Kray gang and their molls. |
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A several month armistice followed, during which Kray was replaced by the Archduke John, with the Austrian army retiring behind the river Inn. |
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In 1938, the Kray family moved from Stean Street in Hoxton, to 178 Vallance Road in Bethnal Green. |
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The Kray twins were notorious for their gang and its violence, and narrowly avoided being sent to prison many times. |
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In 1960, Ronnie Kray was imprisoned for 18 months for running a protection racket and related threats. |
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Ronnie Kray was already suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the killing. |
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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. |
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McVitie was then held in a bearhug by the twins' cousin, Ronnie Hart, and Reggie Kray was handed a carving knife. |
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Three or four times a week we'd see Ronnie Kray filling his face at Browns in the pulsatingly plush restaurant. |
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Although not a witness to the actual murder he was an accessory having driven Ronnie Kray and Ian Barrie to the pub. |
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Ronnie Kray was a Category A prisoner, denied almost all liberties and not allowed to mix with other prisoners. |
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Bender then went on to phone Charlie Kray informing them that it had been dealt with. |
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A French column would distract Kray from Moreau's true intentions by crossing the Rhine from the west. |
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It also meant, however, that any retreat by Kray into Austria via Switzerland and the Vorarlberg was cut off. |
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Subsequently, Kray withdrew his forces to Sigmaringen, followed closely by the French. |
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Talking about his part, he slammed the glamorisation of 1960s criminal gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray. |
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The loss of this main supply base at Stockach compelled Kray to order a retreat to Messkirch, where they enjoyed a more favourable defensive position. |
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Although Read knew for certain that Ronnie Kray had murdered George Cornell in the Blind Beggar pub no one had been prepared to testify against the twins out of fear. |
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They were involved in a number of turf wars, and Reggie Kray spent 18 months in prison at the start of the 1960s for running a protection racket and related threats. |
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The evidence was weakened by Cooper, who claimed that he was an agent for the US Treasury Department investigating links between the American Mafia and the Kray gang. |
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However they were not allowed to attend the graveside, which was at Chingford Mount Cemetery in East London where she was interred in the Kray family plot. |
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