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Reggie Kray’s East End Stories: The lost memoirs of the gangland legend

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:54:54 +0000

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.

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A Way of Life: Over thirty years of blood, sweat and tears

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:54:41 +0000

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.

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