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# Villain Edit: The Kray Twins
- URL: https://www.gtv.blue/kray-twins/
- Published: 2025-10-23T23:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-23T23:41:14.000Z
- Description: The gay men who ran East London.
- Author: Gareth Johnson
- Tags: Villain Edit

Ronnie Kray and Reggie Kray - twin brothers - were English criminals who controlled London's East End in the 1950s and 1960s.

### Early life

The Kray brothers were born in 1933 in Haggerston in East London.

They took up boxing in their spare time.

### **Military service**

In 1952, the brothers were conscripted for national service in the British Army.

They spent considerable time in military prison - where they were known for being violent and abusive - and were eventually dishonourably discharged for being absent without leave.

### **Nightclub owners**

Upon their release from prison, the brothers bought a snooker club in Mile End and began running protection rackets.

Their criminal activities progressively expanded, and they acquired a number of clubs - expanding their activities into the nightclub district of London's West End.

By the 1960s, the Kray brothers were seen as celebrity nightclub owners.

### Arrest

The brothers were eventually arrested in 1968 on a number of charges, including murder. After a long trial, the brothers were both sentenced to life imprisonment.

### Personal lives

Ronnie identified as a gay man. There are allegations that Ronnie sexually assaulted men. 

It's widely reported that Ronnie regularly hosted sex-parties where rent-boys were made available to politicians and high-profile establishment figures.

Reggie appears to have been straight.

### Deaths

Ronnie died in 1995 at the age of 61, following a heart attack.

Reggie died in 2000.

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