Not often I agree with Avenged, but he’s right here. This tosh about the Kray twins only hurting their own is nonsense. Ronnie in particular enjoyed bashing people up, and he wouldn’t restrict it to criminals. When he was out drinking, anyone who even looked at him a bit funny could wind up getting done badly and end up in a bedsheet and dropped off by his cronies at the London hospital covered in claret. He was a mad, vicious sadistic bully. Even his gangster pals got fed up with him in the end and if he hadn’t been nicked, he probably wouldn’t have made it out of the 60’s.
My mum grew up in the sixties in Bethnal Green and my grandad delivered milk in the area and frequented the pubs and clubs. People were terrified of them. They only spoke kindly of them out of fear. They walked into a pub and the atmosphere changed instantly and people would start drifting out slowly. Eventually it would just be them and their pals left, usually helping themselves.