Reg Kray

The manuscript, rediscovered ten years after Reg Kray’s death from cancer in 2000, is his memoir of his East End childhood in Bethnal Green, his days as a semi-pro boxer, and the forming of friendships, which would endure through to the Kray Twins’ reign of terror in the 1960s and beyond.

Reg Kray was prison royalty.  The sun shone on those he befriended, but other less fortunate inmates caught a shower.  As he was reaching the end of his life, he wrote an account of his 30 plus years of incarceration in Category A prisons.  Both touching and tough, it stands as a unique documentary of life in Britain’s most secure jails.