They went on to develop a protection racket network in which they forced fashionable clubs to pay weekly fees to stop them from destroying their livelihoods.Īnd to mask their misdeeds, they donated money to charity, even buying tickets boxing shows in aid of cancer victims. Ronnie and Reggie, who grew up in Bethnal Green and Haggerston in East London, with older siblings Charlie and Violet, began their criminal careers with a string of violent offences as teenagers.īy the time they were 21, they were known across the East End as the most vicious criminals in London's gangland scene. The brothers' lives have been dramatised several times on the big screen, most famously in 1990 film The Krays and 2015 production Legend, in which Tom Hardy portrayed both of them. Pictured: Ronnie and Reggie Kray in Cedra Court, off Cazenove Road in northeast London, on August 3, 1964 But on this day 55 years ago, the night club owners' 12-year reign of terror finally came to an end when they were arrested on charges of murdering fellow gangsters Jack 'the Hat' McVitie and George Cornell. Ronnie and Reggie Kray used a mixture of extreme violence and intimidation to rule the criminal underworld in the East of London in the 1960s.
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