"Well, one day, I was sittin at 'ome, threatenin' the kids, when I look out the 'ole in the wall and I sees this tank drive up. And one of Dinsdale's boys gets out, all nice and friendly like and says Dinsdale wants to have a word with me. So he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape round to Dinsdale's. And Dinsdale's there in the conversation pit with Doug, Charles Paisley (the baby crusher), and two film producers and a man called Kierkegaard who just sat around bitin' the heads off whippets. And Dinsdale says, "I hear you've been a naughty boy, Clement," and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out and I say, "My name's not Clement," and he loses his temper and nails me head to the floor." "He nailed your head to the floor?" "At first, yeah."

@@FullCircleguitar funny stuff

@@FullCircleguitar maybe a parody on the richardsons who were alleged to nail people to the floor (torture gang )

Only Spiny Norman could intimidate Dinsdale!

That’s a great sketch.

P.S. *LOVE* the bottle of Dom in the background! 🍾

I'm an American amateur Cosa Nostra buff, but because my mother's maiden name is Dillinger, as in my grandfather was a second cousin to John Dillinger, the infamous bank robber & first person the FBI ever labeled "Public Enemy No. One, I also took an interest in The Kray Twins & The Firm, & while I'm not defending their actions WHATSOEVER... Their former Firm members did provide the distinction that by "young boys," they actually meant young 'men,' 18, 19 yrs old, no? I know Big Albie Donoghue once said that, at least.

@@matthewrider5906 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7Zjks6Ez9Odh5c.html my stories are just that.. second hand.. however this guy... not so much... they took children from care homes. Children... not young men... boys.. and of course which members of the testosterone driven firm are going to admit their boses had a thing for young boys?

They bullied and raped a lot of young men who were straight, that's why people were scared of them.

I've been doing research in my family tree and I live in Bristol and my ancestors were part of a crime family in Bristol back in the 1700s. They committed majority of their crimes in daylight due to the fear they gave to people. Just having our surname back then automatically made you guilty. It was pretty interesting to read about and a local museum has some of their info about their crime group. Not quite the level of the krays but it was still pretty cool to find out. I do have a letter from Reggie kray though

My dad's harder than your dad

Great story!

In Poland to Brothers changed clothes when one of them been in prison.It was happen on visit time

😂 you do know they weren’t really twins.

@@il-danny-ll5588 yeah they were

Lol and under hotels , airport runaways!

That's not exactly a secret. I come from the West so that's my route into London when I drive. Everyone tells you about it. Whether it's true or not who knows

They made the spoof film about him with Kevin spacey, ordinary decent criminal.

My Gran was a Relation of Mad Dog Coll

@The Big kahuna yeah I know, I like to that film better and the film I mentioned spoofed that 1 but I think he's more chance of hearing about that 1

Lenny McLean would smash him. Up the guvnor

Count Dankula did a doco on the general.

And Part Irish!!! The Irish are tough people!!!!

Romanis are gypsy's. So these guys were half Irish half gypsy. They really didn't have a chance of a normal life.

The Romani are what English speaking people call Gypsies. Romaní is is what they call themselves. You are correct about them being of Indian origin however.

@@dc56789 separate ethnic groups

Define Indo-Aryans. I have never heard the term.

RAF Alconbury?

@@wjs2394 that’s it bro!

@@klmorg63 Thought so. We live 12 miles north in Peterborough, but are moving to the new estate thats being built on the old RAF Alconbury runway. They have restored the old Watch Tower and its now a Bistro.

I will, thanks 😊

@Zero Fox...I've Owned It Since 2002. I've Been Watching It On Cable Since 1992...I Think It Is The Best Account, (Despite Its Discrepancies On Who They Were Really Are For Dramatic Effect. Edit: Gary And Martin Kemp Are Brothers Who Looks Alike: But Not Twins). 👍

It's definitely a lot better than Legend that's for sure.

You are cockanies😊...Great movie

@@sharolddelilahkelly8005 it's absolute fantasy. The Little Mermaid is closer to the truth about the Krays than that film. Entertaining for sure but should not be called the Krays as its not about them

Yo Odin's in the house 😁👌🏻

John Pearsons book Profession of Violence is the most read and honest account of this pairs short term terrorising of their area. 👍

@@michaelfranzese can u do a video on the Irish criminals in Ireland Michael

wow.

He sounds lovely.

@@MrTubularBalls 💀

Interesting 👍

@Myles Garrett I think you are right. My Grandad was a WW2 combat vet who fought the Japanese in the Philippines. I don't know how much he taught his brother in law about guns. I know from my dad that he taught him quite a bit. The army also taught him about guns as well.

Not really I was doing prison time from 92 and I picked up the book in them . There reputation has lasted through decades.

God bless Texas

Even more notorious these days yes, love Commercial Road 👌😎

@@DaveSCameron what's commercial road?

@@nicholasanderson9019 it’s just a road the other side of the royal London when you go east. I used to get the bus that way home.

@@nicholasanderson9019 It's the main thoroughfare through Hackney, Bethnal Green, Poplar and Bow taking in The Royal Free London (Hospital) and of course the now famous Blind Beggar alehouse 🇬🇧💯👍

@@michaelfranzese Do you have any good Sinatra stories Mr. Franzese?

Freddie Foreman, that’s all I’m saying

Bullshit

Yes they were the real power crew and run huge areas of London. They were on a totally different level in every way, but at the end of the day they let the Krays make the headlines and they made the money.

@@hogey4876 who went to jail first?

@@shanewhite4868 brown bread Fred had the body dumped outside his pub to get rid off.say something about that

💯

AT LEAST THEY HAVE SNUFF

They were nonces. They got away with it for so long because they had dirt on all kinds of people in power. Here's a reply to someone's comment that was deleted that might interest you: Got an email for a reply to a comment I made in a thread on this video about the Krays being into trafficking young kids - which they did do, a lot of the time for the elite, and that this is one of the reasons they got away with their crimes for such a long time. The person in the reply asked me "so the American mob was involved with child trafficking?" but i can't find it. Guessing that it was deleted because people don't want to know the truth about the mafia and some of the shadier sides of the rackets they were involved in. Read about Robert DiBernardo - he was targeted by the feds for trafficking in porn, including the illegal kinds, relative to the question I am replying to. Also look into the fact that the mob ran/extorted/"protected" the gay bars and gay hangouts in general in NYC during the time of Stonewall and the riots and all that. There was a bouncer but I can't find his name - he and others were accused of trafficking/pimping by local kids, usually runaways, many of them runaways, and this particular bouncer was an associate of the Genovese family. Another key player in this was a man called Ed "Skull" Murphy (not to be confused with a wrestler of the same name). It's hard to find info on him via Google but he was involved with the bars and was involved in pimping out kids too. Pretty safe bet that this comment will be deleted just as the original comment was, but this is an important part of mob history that people should know about. They were and still are liars, with a well-oiled PR machine. Don't forget that they got away with so much of their racketeering because J. Edgar Hoover refused to acknowledge their existence and instead went after political radicals, mostly black folks (i.e. Black Panther Party). Why is this? Because the mob had pictures of Hoover. Even Michael Franzese admits this. How did they obtain such blackmail information on people in high places? Through people like Roy Cohn - lawyer to many mobsters, gay, into kids and who ran an elaborate blackmail scheme which compromised many politicians, lawyers, judges - anyone you can imagine that was in power, Roy Cohn would have had dirt on them if they were dirty, and he was tight with the mob. He made a lot of money from the mob and not just in legal fees. Oh, and the mob didn't deal drugs either, right? Even though Luciano was a part of setting up the original French Connection and literally had heroin processing plants in Sicily during his exile. But I suppose that that all died with him though, eh? Despite countless prosecutions over the decades. Criminals are criminals and they will make money in whatever ways that they can. Some individual mobsters may have had certain personal morals, and the organisations themselves may profess to have certain moral codes that must be abided by, but is John Gotti going to turn away a big, fat briefcase (let alone envelope!) full of cash because it might have come from illegal trafficking in drugs, humans, p*rn or whatever else? You'd have to be very naive to believe that. In fact, DeBernardo was quite close to Gotti himself. Anyway, enjoy the comment while it lasts because it'll be deleted. Even though we are speaking on the channel of an ex-mobster, he still wants to protect the image of his former organisation inasmuch as he doesn't want to be associated with what DiBernardo was doing, not to mention the pimps who operated around the gay scene in NYC and kicked up to the mob, such as Ed "Skull" Murphy and others.

Really? There was hardly any info, four minutes of waffle at the start and finish plus he got loads wrong. Names, places, facts. Very poor. Plus all that garbage about the Bible. What about his victims? They didn't have a chance to repent so why should he? Doesn't that fan fiction book they all believe say at one point "an eye for an eye?"

That would be awesome!! Sit down with all 3 would be legendary!

That would be Epic 😎

A few of my friends were gangbangers and they would tell me about some of their comings and goings, I genuinely had a curiosity about it. It was like being in a vice documentary lol.

Awesome! I'd love to see that too!

I literally just replied to someone with a comment almost exactly like yours. If the Richardson's didn't finish them before the law did, the Adams family certainly would have. Both groups were absolutely brutal. And the Adams family being Irish were able to and often did bring in sleepers from Ireland to do hits for them. No one knew where they were going to be shot from. Patsy is an absolute psycho too who everyone was terrified of.

That would be interesting. I've heard of the Arif brothers too. I wonder if they're still active

@@themightyatom1031 yes they are still going. The arifs had a major war with the notorious Brindle family in SE London, and the Adams family were going at it with the Reilly's in north London at the same time. Crazy time filling the power vacuum left behind the Krays and Richardson's.

@@roymunson1 blimey 😳

any idea what it was called patrick ?

@@anthonymitchell8893 hi Anthony It was called The Peacock on Maiden Lane

Covent Garden is brilliant bet he made a killing there!

Yet he couldn't get the club name right even though the image shows it. Supposed to be a professional channel, always trying to whore merch and mistakes like that are fine on casual channels but just makes him look like a charlatan

Very little...Angelo Bruno was never mentioned

Thank you.

Romani are Indians

@@yurichtube1162 yes, Indo-Aryan

They were gypsi?

@@luisvega666 their mother violet was half Romani gypsy

There is plenty of English people talking about English gangsters on KZfaq

@@alandavies5570 yeah true but it’s nice to get Michaels take on some of them. Most over here were just low level thugs but revered as gods by some. It’s nice to have some balance and objectivity.

@@andiholman2543 yes mate it’s nice that he acknowledged British history as some Americans think nothing exists outside of the U.S

I agree he did an amazing job

@@jenniferdouglass336 most definitely lol I can't even win a argument with my mirror and this guy can win a argument against himself lol

So how to explain the terrible things that happen to innocent children

I'm glad you find comfort in Christianity and I'm even more glad that you stayed out

For driving?

@@karkkimarkkinat2109 and sent in with cancer? Harsh sentence!!

That was super relevant. "Random guys life story" was the title of the video. Thanks for that.

Nonces too

Young men, not boys, not peado age. Do a (ahem) bit of research

@@davidrowan3853 You fool, they were young boys. That means teenagers, around 14,15,16. He was notorious for it. Do your research before you open your trap.

@@prophetascending9021 i know all about it, don't need to research it, they were all adults and above the legal age, not one child. You probably should do a wee bit more research, and stop using the word fool. Typical American.

He shits all over the overatted Krays

and mad Frankie Fraser the crazy Richardson's henchman

That would of been Ronnie kray , listen to his tapes in Broadmoor on KZfaq well intriguing 👍👍

@@michaelfranzese Mike love this, but the Kray's were not the biggest, The Nash brothers and Fred Foreman and other faces were probably more wise and as feared and respected , And the Richardson's just as capable the twins ruled the east end and i don't think it was the entire east end.

Yea he was getting in a rant off on mc vicar he didn’t like him much it’s a rare glimpse of when he could get nasty very interesting tapes

what was the series called?

@@tabsntoot Ron was hardly nasty about McVicar or any of the others . His voice was softly spoken throughout the tapes and he just made his feelings clear about these people . No swearing or raising his voice like you suggest !!

And his lad Jamie Foreman is an actor, played in Dr.Who, and oddly enough a few gangster flicks..

This is true , better than most of the posts on here !!

Love Michael F pod casts but yeah freddie foreman never turned or spoke and was convicted for conspiracy 2murder even though no body . Tried with them , as nipper wanted it that way .

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What about the guvnor. Lenny McLean