Kate Beal Blyth

He was dressed beautifully.

Yes, Reggie was in a fortunate position of being a relatively top dog, but the idea for any younger up-and-coming criminal to hurt Reggie in some way was something that everyone aimed for.

He had a target on his back throughout his park curse years and then subsequently into other prisons.

So when Ronnie died, Reggie was in Maidstone.

And obviously, hearing the news that your twin brother has died and will never be free again must have been devastating for Reggie.

My understanding is that Freddie Foreman, the craze enforcer, was in prison at the time with Reggie.

I think he was on a different wing.

However, the prison governor kindly let Freddie Foreman go and comfort Reggie and share his grief.

The legacy of the Kray twins is failure.

They were failed as young men by the system.

They could have been sent in a far more positive direction.

They could have used their talents in many different ways.

And their circumstance and the world that they grew up in sent them into this life of crime.

And then they made a choice to follow that path.

And they made incredibly bad choices along the way and got caught.

So they chose to be criminals.

They chose to be villains.

And they did a really bad job of that because they got caught.

And they both died having spent most of their lives behind bars.

Nothing about that is heroic.