Kate Beal Blyth

The craze operated on fear, and people were too afraid to speak and too afraid to grasp up because that was the code.

That was the code of the villains of the time, and it was the code of the East End.

So you didn't grasp up your friend or neighbor or your friendly local protection racket gang.

So that's what they relied on after the George Cornell murder.

No one can actually say what Ron's mental health was exactly during what we know as their heyday or the beginning of their heyday and through to the time they were caught.

However, there were certain decisions, certain actions that he took that you think, OK, well, this could be paranoid schizophrenia or these aren't the actions of a sane man.

But then you could say that with so many criminals and murderers, these aren't the actions of a sane person.

So you then have to question Reggie as well, because he went along with it.

So it isn't simply Ron was mad and Reggie was pulled along for the ride.

That's not the case.

They were equals.

The official account is that she took her own life, and I am inclined to believe that account.

The other accounts where, you know, did Ronnie murder her or did Reggie murder her or what actually happened, I think come more out of the craze, ideology and mythology and legend than actually the truth and the reality of what it was, I think.

She was a lady in an unhappy marriage and didn't see a way out.

And I think that is a tragedy in itself, without adding on speculation about murder and those sorts of conversations.

I am not an expert in how people kill other people, but to walk in and shoot somebody feels more clinical than to stab somebody to death.

To stab somebody to death, you need to be up close to their face.

You need to be close to their body, the blood, you see the reaction.

Whereas walking into a pub and shooting somebody,

is a slightly more distant way of doing it so for those who say ronnie was the mad one ronnie was the one who was paranoid schizophrenic you need to think about the murder that reggie committed which is far more of a brutal up-close visceral murder than the one that ronnie was convicted of