For most of the 1950s and 1960s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were a terrifying legend in the pubs and drinking clubs of London’s East End, ruling their ‘manor’ like feudal warlords. Anything said or done against them reached their ears within hours, and reprisals were swift and bloody.
When a London couple was kidnapped for ransom from their home in Bromley in 1983, only the quick-wittedness of the wife prevented the affair from turning into tragedy.