Take a look at some of London's most notorious gangsters and see where they are now👀
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💭Although most of them are now dead, London remains the home of gangsters who have either turned their lives around or are languishing behind bars.
#GangsOfLondon
Dave Courtney is now a celebrity author and actor, he also organised the security at Ronnie Kray's funeral in Bethnal Green.
Having spoken openly about being shot and killing others to stay alive, he now earns a living as a celebrity.
Former enforcer John Pridmore made a fortune in London’s West End working in the drugs trade in the 1990s.
Later finding God after leaving a man for dead outside a nightclub, he turned Christian and the former crook now gives talks in schools and parishes.
Bobby Cummines made history when he was just 16-year-old – after becoming Britain’s youngest ever armed robber.
The Islington born former gangster, now 70, works as an anti-crime campaigner and his positive influence earned him an OBE from Queen Elizabeth in 2011.
Freddie Foreman now lives in a nursing home but he was once known as the Godfather of London.
An associate of the Kray twins’ gang, he and the brothers were all jailed in relation to the murder of Jack “the Hat” McVitie in 1969, he served 16 years.
#KrayTwins #FreddieForeman
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