Kate Beal Blyth
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Violet is continuing to be the good, loyal mum that she is, who doesn't necessarily believe the extreme things her sons have done.
Clearly, she knows they're dodgy businessmen and that their money isn't legit all the time because she's lived a very good lifestyle from their earnings.
However, she continues to be a mum and take them food in prison and take their associates' food in prison and visit them and ensure they're okay.
There's the old phrase of dividing and conquering.
So trying to divide the Firm and divide the loyalties and play them off against each other was a natural operation.
And to a certain extent, it worked.
And they all stood next to each other.
They all had cards around their neck.
It was a trial where they could all see each other.
As the prosecution and defense were speaking, they were standing side by side.
So it must have been a very intimidating place to be if you were a firm member.
And it must have been extraordinarily intimidating if you were thinking of turning against twins.
There is no doubt that Broadmoor was a nicer place to be than Parkhurst.
You had more freedom and you were treated as a patient rather than as a prisoner.
And that's the fundamental difference.
Broadmoor is a hospital for the criminally insane.
So Reggie will have been living a very difficult prison life in a wing with other violent, violent criminals, which for him probably had its pluses as well as its minuses.
Whereas Ronnie, yes, he had a cell essentially that he was in, but he has more freedom to walk into communal areas.
Ronnie had velvet curtains in his room.