The Krays: Their Life Behind Bars

Robin McGibbon

ISBN 10: 1905080883 / ISBN 13: 9781905080885

Published by Great Northern Books Ltd 12/06/2011, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Krays: Their Life Behind Bars
• Publisher: Great Northern Books Ltd 12/06/2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905080883
• ISBN 13: 9781905080885
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The Their Life Behind Bars is an extraordinary book - written by the only journalist the notorious twins trusted.Robin McGibbon, who collaborated with Charlie Kray on his best-selling memoir, Me and My Brothers, was welcomed into the Krays' inner sanctum.As a valued friend and confidant, the former Daily Express sub-editor was asked to visit Reg in top-security prisons, and Ron, in Broadmoor's hospital for the criminally insane.For more than ten years, he saw the twins at close quarters, witnessing their contrasting personalities, violent mood swings and eccentric humour.When Ron's second wife caused him to suffer a mental breakdown, it was McGibbon he turned to, writing 23 heart-rending letters in just two weeks, pleading for help.When Reg was distraught with grief over his twin's death, McGibbon was the person he chose to help with the most intimate parts of the funeral.The Their Life Behind Bars contains private letters and personal photos of the twins - and an unedited transcript of an exclusive Broadmoor interview, in which Ron tells for the first time why he shot a rival villlain dead in the Blind Beggar pub.This sensational insight into the minds of Britain's most feared gangsters alsoHOW Reg destroyed a friend's life.WHO Ron ordered to be murdered.WHY Reg denied his brother his dying wish.WHICH gangster Ron hated most.H0W the twins humiliated their older brother, Charlie.WHY innocent people were beaten up.And, intriguingly, this fascinating. revelatory book tells why the author would never have met any of the Krays had it not been for sex!

About the Author

Robin McGibbon, a former national newspaper journalist and publisher, met the Kray twins in 1985, after publishing older brother Charlie's memoirs, Me and My Brothers. He re-wrote it three years later and has since ghost-written five autobiographies, including Barbara Windsor's No.2 bestseller, All of Me, and Escape from the Kray Madness, by Chris Lambrianou. He has also written unauthorised biographies of Mick Hucknall, Paul Gascoigne and Phillip Schofield, and, in 2008, released The Kray Tapes, a boxset of CDs of his exclusive conversations with all three Kray brothers.