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There were a lot of girls around too. Reggie used to say to Alfie: ‘Go and get some women.’ Alfie was a real ladies’ man; he was the one bringing the birds back. But Ronnie would besaying: ‘No, go and get some boys.’ So half the time poor Alfie didn’t know where he was.
One of the girls was very pretty, but looked very much like a boy, slim-hipped and short-haired. Ronnie took to her immediately, whispering in her ear, and leading her to the bedroom. Suddenly Alfie and David heard the girl crying out, not in ecstasy, but in distress. David walked over to the door and called out to her, asking her if everything was all right. Ron was furious, telling him to ‘Fuck off out of it.’ But David guessed what was happening – that he was forcing her to have anal sex.
Ten minutes later the girl came out of the room, screaming that she wanted to go home, that Ronnie was ‘mental’ and she didn’t want anything to do with him ever again.
Ronnie did what he liked. There were so many incidents that should have alerted my brothers. Not only was he going more and more insane, but he was also getting increasingly sexually voracious, if that were possible. They were always being sent out to find him boys.
Ron was after David too, right from the beginning. He was always touching him but David wasn’t frightened of him then and would just tell him to leave him alone. He kept him at bay by getting him rent boys instead.
It all nearly came out in public. The Cedra Court scene with all those celebrities and politicians trooping through Ronnie’s flat was far too wild to keep hidden. On 12 July 1964 the famous newspaper headline appeared in the Sunday Mirror : ‘Peer and a Gangster: Yard Inquiry’. The story went that asenior Scotland Yard detective was investigating connections between an ‘underworld thug and a well-known member of the House of Lords’. A week later there was another front-page headline when the Mirror ran a story entitled ‘The Picture We Dare Not Print’. It was a stunt really – a story about a photograph of the peer and the gangster sitting on a bed with a ‘beatnik youth’. Well, it’s true, they dared not print it.
The photo was of Ronnie and Lord Boothby. Lord Boothby was the Conservative peer who appeared frequently on the telly and in the newspapers. That’s what the foreign magazines said at the time, even though you couldn’t say that here in Britain. The boy on the bed was Leslie Holt from Cedra Court, rent-boy and cat-burglar. But it didn’t come out until years later that the Prime Minster and Home Secretary had been involved in the cover-up, and that the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police had terminated the investigation. The government were really frightened, worried that Ronnie was trying to get his picture taken with Sir Winston Churchill. So Boothby got a heavy solicitor and the Mirror ended up paying him £40,000, an enormous sum of money in those days. It didn’t even go to court. But it was all true, what the paper had said. Boothby told people that he’d used the libel money to buy a house in France. In fact he gave much of it to Ronnie.
There was also a Labour MP on the scene at the time, named Tom Driberg. He was another homosexual. He loved the set-up at Ronnie’s and was always round Cedra Court. It was Mad Teddy who introduced the Krays to Driberg because Teddy was sleeping with him. Teddy was like a scout for the Krays, searchingfor people who might be useful. The Krays then met Boothby through Driberg.
The two of them were very different personalities. As Alfie described them, Boothby was big and blustering, whereas Driberg was small and sickly-looking, like you wouldn’t want to get too close to him. Both got a real kick out of being friends with the Colonel. And of course having these powerful connections on both sides of the political spectrum was tremendously advantageous for the Krays. They were controlling the police and now they could
There were a lot of girls around too. Reggie used to say to Alfie: ‘Go and get some women.’ Alfie was a real ladies’ man; he was the one bringing the birds back. But Ronnie would besaying: ‘No, go and get some boys.’ So half the time poor Alfie didn’t know where he was.
One of the girls was very pretty, but looked very much like a boy, slim-hipped and short-haired. Ronnie took to her immediately, whispering in her ear, and leading her to the bedroom. Suddenly Alfie and David heard the girl crying out, not in ecstasy, but in distress. David walked over to the door and called out to her, asking her if everything was all right. Ron was furious, telling him to ‘Fuck off out of it.’ But David guessed what was happening – that he was forcing her to have anal sex.
Ten minutes later the girl came out of the room, screaming that she wanted to go home, that Ronnie was ‘mental’ and she didn’t want anything to do with him ever again.
Ronnie did what he liked. There were so many incidents that should have alerted my brothers. Not only was he going more and more insane, but he was also getting increasingly sexually voracious, if that were possible. They were always being sent out to find him boys.
Ron was after David too, right from the beginning. He was always touching him but David wasn’t frightened of him then and would just tell him to leave him alone. He kept him at bay by getting him rent boys instead.
It all nearly came out in public. The Cedra Court scene with all those celebrities and politicians trooping through Ronnie’s flat was far too wild to keep hidden. On 12 July 1964 the famous newspaper headline appeared in the Sunday Mirror : ‘Peer and a Gangster: Yard Inquiry’. The story went that asenior Scotland Yard detective was investigating connections between an ‘underworld thug and a well-known member of the House of Lords’. A week later there was another front-page headline when the Mirror ran a story entitled ‘The Picture We Dare Not Print’. It was a stunt really – a story about a photograph of the peer and the gangster sitting on a bed with a ‘beatnik youth’. Well, it’s true, they dared not print it.
The photo was of Ronnie and Lord Boothby. Lord Boothby was the Conservative peer who appeared frequently on the telly and in the newspapers. That’s what the foreign magazines said at the time, even though you couldn’t say that here in Britain. The boy on the bed was Leslie Holt from Cedra Court, rent-boy and cat-burglar. But it didn’t come out until years later that the Prime Minster and Home Secretary had been involved in the cover-up, and that the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police had terminated the investigation. The government were really frightened, worried that Ronnie was trying to get his picture taken with Sir Winston Churchill. So Boothby got a heavy solicitor and the Mirror ended up paying him £40,000, an enormous sum of money in those days. It didn’t even go to court. But it was all true, what the paper had said. Boothby told people that he’d used the libel money to buy a house in France. In fact he gave much of it to Ronnie.
There was also a Labour MP on the scene at the time, named Tom Driberg. He was another homosexual. He loved the set-up at Ronnie’s and was always round Cedra Court. It was Mad Teddy who introduced the Krays to Driberg because Teddy was sleeping with him. Teddy was like a scout for the Krays, searchingfor people who might be useful. The Krays then met Boothby through Driberg.
The two of them were very different personalities. As Alfie described them, Boothby was big and blustering, whereas Driberg was small and sickly-looking, like you wouldn’t want to get too close to him. Both got a real kick out of being friends with the Colonel. And of course having these powerful connections on both sides of the political spectrum was tremendously advantageous for the Krays. They were controlling the police and now they could
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