Steve also had a strong bond with the twins.

With their gang, known as "The Firm", the Krays were involved in murder, armed robbery, arson, protection rackets and assaults. “As we left he told me, ‘That’s my first lesson to you. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. newspaper archive.

There was nothing in the letter from his twin brother Ron that sparked this anguish. JULY 1997: Reggie weds wife No2 Roberta Jones.


Reggie and Ronnie Kray were born in London's East End, the twin sons of the feckless Charlie and the protective Violet. “Reg gave some prisoners a half ounce of tobacco. When [Frances] first came onto the scene the first reaction from Ronnie was jealousy, sheer and utter jealousy. “He had an army of bodyguards on call but he could still look after himself. For his first lesson, Reggie told Steve he must “dress down” in jeans and a plain jumper. “A month later he came to C-Wing, where I was, and I went and knocked on his cell door. Other IRA men would come and we’d drink and listen as they sung rebel songs.”. Frances was born in 1943 in Hoxton, London to Elsie Shea, a Shoreditch born twenty-one-year-old seamstress and Frank Shea Sr., a woodworker (aged twenty-six at the time) from Hoxton but of Irish descent.

He argued that without the Kray … An inquest at the time concluded Frances Kray had committed suicide. You meet the same people going up as you do going down. But Allardyce told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I am openly admitting for the first time that we had a sexual relationship as much as it was against my will and he knew it was against my will. Reg would use that to organise business on the outside.”.

Steve got to enjoy the same perks as the gangster.

Reggie was allegedly encouraged by his brother in October 1967, four months after the suicide of his wife, Frances, to kill Jack ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. He revealed: “A prisoner who used to be a chef had access to two ovens. Steve says: “They just wanted peace and quiet and they knew that Reg was so well respected he kept everyone in check.”. JULY 1997: Reggie weds wife No2 Roberta Jones.
Leonard "Nipper" Read, who thinks the allegations should be investigated. A former gay lover and prison confidant of Reggie Kray has alleged the gangster revealed his first wife was murdered by twin brother Ronnie. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site.

Not everyone involved is in awe of the Krays' terrifying reputation, however. A letter from Reggie Kray to first wife Frances while he was in Wandsworth Prison in South-West London. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. Her father, Frank, had run the gambling at the Regency Club in Stoke Newington, which is how she came to the attention of the Kray twins.