Wannabe in my Gang? - Articles
The articles contained in this section are in relation to O'Mahoney's Forthcoming book WANNABEE in my gang? The truth about the Kray's following their imprisonment and their "fans" who kept the myth alive to promote themselves.
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Magazines
23-29 Jan 2004 - GUNNED DOWN! - Nuts
Unknown Date
??/??/?? - Kray Allegations
??/??/?? - Reggie Kray to remain in jail after 30-year sentence is up
??/??/?? - Ronnie Kray's Deathbed Secrets Revealed
??/??/?? - Obituary for Reggie Kray
??/??/?? - The Krays
??/??/?? - Rock, stock and two smoking barrels
??/??/?? - Krays Brotherhood of Evil
??/??/?? - Family and Friends
??/??/?? - MURDER 1: George Cornell
??/??/?? - MURDER 2: Jack the Hat
??/??/?? - MURDER 3: Mad Axeman Mitchell
??/??/?? - Where are the bodies?
??/??/?? - Rivals In Murder
??/??/?? - Early Days - East End Boys
??/??/?? - On the rise - Fight to the Top
??/??/?? - At Large
??/??/?? - Villains of the 60s
??/??/?? - The Hunt - Cracking the case
??/??/?? - A taste for violence
??/??/?? - The Empire Crumbles
??/??/?? - Aftermath
??/??/?? - Krays to get service invite
??/??/?? - Service in memory of tragic schoolboy
??/??/?? - Seasonal sorrow for Codsall man
??/??/?? - Crash victim James dies
??/??/?? - Krays back charity boxing
??/??/?? - Tragic family visits Kray twin to say thanks
??/??/?? - Sad Kray twin pays a tape tribute to James
??/??/?? - Kray Twins stage Charity boxing extravaganza
??/??/?? - Bernie's knock-out night still on
??/??/?? - Bernie's a belter
??/??/?? - Charity night for crash boy 'a shambles'
??/??/?? - Krays cry as tragic lad dies
??/??/?? - Thanks from South Africa
2005
27/01/05 - Kray gay love's life for killing
26/01/05 - Reggie Kray's Gay Lover Gets Life for Murder
2004
16/06/04 - Gangster is no wife beater
12/06/04 - Crook is in the clear
11/06/04 - Ex-Gangster Cleared of Attacking Wife
11/06/04 - Courtney 'cracked wife's ribs' claim
09/06/04 - Author 'hit wife over gay affair'
08/06/04 - Author Denies Assaulting Wife During Row
28/04/04 - Letter from the letters page of the Peterborough Evening Telegraph
15/04/04 - 'Dodgy' Dave's only shooting his movie
07/04/04 - UNDERWORLD: My life of vicious crime, by ex-Essex Boy
01/04/04 - Is this the real face of 'Essex Boy' Bernard O'Mahoney
27/03/04 - Wannabe in my gang? NME Book of the week
22/03/04 - Author? He's making money out of crimes
22/03/04 - A rare insight or just opportunism?
14/03/04 - No respect due to killers, thugs and villains
12/03/04 - Krays lose their charm
12/03/04 - Farewell to Kray pal
12/03/04 - Keeper of the Kray flame
10/03/04 - East End send-off for Krays' man
26/02/04 - Kray henchman dies at 62
2003
30/11/03 - A life of crime in film
13/11/03 - Diary
23/10/03 - Killers still at large
11/10/03 - Plea to the underworld
10/10/03 - Hoddesdon gym victim's past revealed
07/10/03 - Victim of shooting is a scot
06/10/03 - Merc clue to killers' getaway
06/10/03 - Killer's car clue
06/10/03 - Residents no strangers to cold-blooded killings
05/10/03 - Man killed at gym is boxer's second bodyguard to be gunned down
05/10/03 - Police find car used by killers
05/10/03 - SUPERGRASS!
05/10/03 - Gun crime spreads 'like a cancer' across Britain
05/10/03 - Dead man walking
04/10/03 - Two hunted after man is gunned down
04/10/03 - Man murdered in drive-by shooting
04/10/03 - Man killed in hail of bullets as gunmen spring trap
04/10/03 - Gunmen on run after market town murder
04/10/03 - Drive-by shooting targeted
04/10/03 - ASSASSINS
04/10/03 - Bodybuilder killed by hitman at health club
04/10/03 - UK gripped by gun crime
04/10/03 - Shooting victim 'had criminality background'
04/10/03 - Shooting victim had criminal past
04/10/03 - Bodybuilder shot dead in hail of bullets
04/10/03 - Bodybuilder shot dead outside health club
03/10/03 - Health club gun murder
21/07/03 - The madness of Ronnie Kray
30/05/03 - Diary by Matthew Norman
06/03/03 - Book signing by Hard Man
24/01/03 - Crime is a thing of the past
21/01/03 - Nipper's arrest in the 'top ten'
21/01/03 - Kray arrest man's reaction to 'top ten' status
2002
17/11/02 - Brave Dave out ...for revenge
24/10/02 - 'I'm no gangster's groupie'
18/10/02 - Life in the Krays
27/08/02 - Secret book will bring revenge for his lifetime behind bars
25/08/02 - Tough Dave's revenge vow
18/08/02 - 'LOCK STOCK' DAVE IN GANGLAND HIT
23/07/02 - I got gangster's email threats
01/06/02 - Reggie's secret murder
11/04/02 - No buyers for Kray letters
08/04/02 - Kray's gay note sale
27/01/02 - Harriet Harman torment over evil sex pest letters
20/01/02 - Reg Kray bid to be dad from grave
20/01/02 - Banking on a Kray heir
15/01/02 - Kray wife death inquiry 'would waste resources'
15/01/02 - The brothers grim
14/01/02 - Probe into Kray claims 'would be waste of money'
13/01/02 - Reggie's keep-fit vid for wrinklies
13/01/02 - Kray's made 10 million pounds from inside jail
04/01/02 - Police to investigate Kray case
2001
14/12/01 - Courtney 'Booted out for Queen's visit'
23/11/01 - So you fink you're 'ard enough?
18/11/01 - Kray's threat from beyond the grave
18/11/01 - Kray gag in his will
07/11/01 - Brothers Kray And The E Files
04/11/02 - A fragile looking man with grey hair and many regrets
19/10/01 - Ronnie Kray in torment over being gay
19/10/01 - Scared witnesses thwarted early police attempts to jail Kray twins
19/10/01 - Wall of silence protected twins
19/10/01 - Police aware of Krays' threat years before notoriety, documents reveal
18/10/01 - Their frightening reputations
18/10/01 - Letters reveal Kray reign of terror
18/10/01 - The anonymous claims
18/10/01 - Witnesses who changed sides
05/10/01 - Twins speak
07/09/01 - Fury as Kray henchmen get paid for ad campaign
12/08/01 - Gangsters in secret visit to Kray brother's graves
15/07/01 - MY final days with Reggie...
01/07/01 - Kray's tatty grave, Gangster Reggie's still waiting for his headstone
04/06/01 - Glasgow hitmen were Kray's most trusted killer's
20/04/01 - Courtney on camera
02/04/01 - You're just a fall-Guy for gangsters Kray widow raps Ritchie
01/04/01 - Krays 'killed more than 30'
30/03/01 - Judgment day for Reggie Kray
26/03/01 - Reggie leaves murder puzzle
25/03/01 - Kray confessed to murder on his deathbed
25/03/01 - Dying Kray shock : I killed another
25/03/01 - Kray's deathbed secrets revealed
25/03/01 - Kray made deathbed murder confession
22/03/01 - BBC hits back in row over Kray film
22/03/01 - BBC's £280,000 and the dying thoughts of the last Kray
11/03/01 - I'm Reggie Kray's secret daughter
25/02/01 - UK Confidential
14/01/01 - Kray blood feud fear
09/01/01 - Mobster to take police to court
06/01/01 - Police in legal row with TV hardman
2000
16/12/00 - Plot detective is jailed
15/12/00 - 'Death threats' to cleared TV man
15/12/00 - Gangster's mollifier
13/12/00 - Criminal was not police informant
12/12/00 - Woman tells jury how man was not a police informant
29/11/00 - Royal Family Could Be Named In Secret Kray Files
28/11/00 - Drugs planted in model’s car
14/11/00 - Wife 'framed as cocaine dealer'
12/11/00 - The Kray's secret royal dossier
29/10/00 - Married to the Mob: Roberta Kray talks
19/10/00 - Soccer club plans tribute to Reggie Kray
15/10/00 - Songs of Krays pay for funeral?
13/10/00 - Police Get Ready For Kray Funeral
12/10/00 - Dead tasteful, Reg
12/10/00 - Stars stay away as Reggie is buried
12/10/00 - How these two hellish creatures became heroes
12/10/00 - 'Undertakers to the underworld' do Reggie proud
12/10/00 - Let's bury the gangster myth alongside Reggie Kray
12/10/00 - Kray myth lives on at last funeral
12/10/00 - He wanted a statesmans's funeral but all he got was a freak show full of has-beens
12/10/00 - Kray was no hero, he was just a killer
12/10/00 - The gang's all here for last of krays
12/10/00 - The Reggie Kray they spoke about in church, all that love and christianity, was not the reg i knew
11/10/00 - Crowds gather for Kray's funeral
11/10/00 - The last of London's dons depart, thousands line up to say goodbye
11/10/00 - Infamous Firm ruled underworld
11/10/00 - Fitting exit for killer Kray
11/10/00 - Applause as Kray's coffin enters church
11/10/00 - Massive turn-out for Reggie Kray's funeral
11/10/00 - Barbara Windsor pays tribute to gangland killer
11/10/00 - Crowds pay silent tribute to Reggie Kray
11/10/00 - Museum denies Kray funeral Spitfire fly-past claim
11/10/00 - My Way rings out as Kray's coffin leaves church
10/10/00 - Thousands expected to watch Kray funeral procession
08/10/00 - Kray lost gangsters' paradise
08/10/00 - Reggie's taunt from the grave
08/10/00 - Reggie Kray confesses from grave : I am gay
08/10/00 - Ronnie was mad but I was bad, says Reggie in song
07/10/00 - `Krays were just ordinary people'
03/10/00 - Bundled into the back of a cab..Reggie's gear returns to his manor
03/10/00 - Reg joins brothers in death
03/10/00 - Why do we go on glorifying such seedy sadists?
03/10/00 - Reggie Kray Is Dead at 66; Cockney With Gangster Chic
03/10/00 - Kray to be buried in family plot next week
03/10/00 - Joint plot for Reggie
02/10/00 - Praise despite horrific past
02/10/00 - Reggie, 66, last of the Kray clan, dies of cancer
02/10/00 - Sadistic gang leader who ruled by terror
02/10/00 - Feared no more
02/10/00 - Final judgment for king of underworld
02/10/00 - REGGIE KRAY: 1933-2000: I wanted to smell fresh air as a free man
02/10/00 - Shed no tears for Reggie
02/10/00 - Big East End send-off is expected for gangster Reggie Kray
02/10/00 - Reggie dies in bridal suite
02/10/00 - Celebrity criminal was much admired
02/10/00 - Kray dies after 35 days of freedom
02/10/00 - Reggie Kray
02/10/00 - Diamond geezer will live in legend
02/10/00 - The end of an ogre
02/10/00 - Kray returns to 'the manor'
01/10/00 - Tributes to a 'gangster star'
01/10/00 - The brutal and charming gangster
01/10/00 - Life of crime began at 12
01/10/00 - East End gangster became a folk icon
01/10/00 - Gangster Kray loses cancer battle
01/10/00 - Kray loses battle against cancer
29/09/00 - Reggie Kray ruined our wedding night
25/09/00 - Kray's day of rest
25/09/00 - Reggie spending 'last days' in honeymoon suite
24/09/00 - Kray 'very frail' at hotel
23/09/00 - Kray sups champagne at hotel on first night of freedom
23/09/00 - Kray toasts freedom with Dom Perignon
22/09/00 - Kray leaves hospital
10/09/00 - Kray: I want jellied eels
29/08/00 - I'm going for a walk
28/08/00 - East End dynasty of hatred and brutality
28/08/00 - Friends' fury as Kray freed to death sentence
28/08/00 - Mercy for Reggie is far too late
28/08/00 - I want to be able to sit out and smell the fresh air..then I'm free
28/08/00 - Wife mounts a bedside vigil as Reggie Kray is expected to die 'within days'
28/08/00 - well-wishers jam phone lines
28/08/00 - Dying gangster released from prison spends comfortable night in hospital
27/08/00 - About time, say stars
27/08/00 - Reg is a real fighter
27/08/00 - Straw frees Kray after 31 years - but he's too sick to go home
27/08/00 - Thank you Sunday People for my freedom
27/08/00 - He's no risk,says Babs
27/08/00 - Release of Reggie Kray dominates papers
27/08/00 - Kray freed after 31 years
27/08/00 - Twins hid behind a shield of glamour
27/08/00 - Empire built on bayonets and billiard cues
26/08/00 - Straw set to rule on dying Reggie's release
26/08/00 - Reggie Kray sent home to die
26/08/00 - Dying Reggie Kray to go free
25/08/00 - Reggie Kray pleads for jail release
15/08/00 - Let My Reg Out, Says Wife
13/08/00 - Kray on his deathbed
05/08/00 - Kray recovers after surgery
04/08/00 - Reggie Kray in hospital for operation
01/08/00 - Reggie Kray obituary
07/05/00 - Kray gets £50,000 to star in ads
20/04/00 - Goodbye Charlie
20/04/00 - Kray Brothers reunited in their East London territory for last time
20/04/00 - Charlie Kray, a proper gentleman who loved his mum
19/04/00 - Crowds cheer Reggie Kray at funeral of his brother Charlie
13/04/00 - Criminal mastermind
09/04/00 - How i wept for Charlie Kray, by Reggie Kray
06/04/00 - Proper Charlie
06/04/00 - He played the gent but Charlie was brains behind the Krays' evil empire
06/04/00 - Gangster masked by jokes
06/04/00 - Charlie Kray
06/04/00 - So long Charlie Kray
05/04/00 - Charlie, eldest of the Kray clan, dies
05/04/00 - Charlie Kray: a not very successful gangster
05/04/00 - Charlie Kray dies in hospital aged 73
04/04/00 - Reggie Kray is taken to visit ailing brother
04/04/00 - Kray family mourns death of Charlie
04/04/00 - Charlie Kray - the quiet one
19/03/00 - Prison switch for Reggie Kray
06/03/00 - Corkman and Kray fan flies to London on quest to free jailed gangster
06/01/00 - Dodgy deals, death and divas
05/01/00 - Public Record Office files: Psychiatrist praised Kray twins' cuddly toys
05/01/00 - What 'cultured' Krays told doctor
1999
17/09/99 - Man who threatened MP may get £3,000
16/09/99 - Now Reggie's a real Fun Lovin' Criminal
14/09/99 - Haunted Harriet; Tearful MP tells of stalking hell
14/09/99 - Harman tells court of death threats ordeal
14/09/99 - MP 'hate figure' for psychiatric patient
14/09/99 - MP tells of stalking agony
09/09/99 - Ex-convict 'fantasised about murdering Harriet Harman'
09/09/99 - MP 'fear at death warning'
22/08/99 - Chinese chef charged at me swinging 3ft meat cleaver
22/08/99 - A crook get his reward
22/08/99 - Rival bit off my nose and I ripped out his eye
15/08/99 - Aimed and fired, Bondie's head snapped as if on elastic... then i ran for my life
02/08/99 - Nice cuppa, Mr Kray?
28/06/99 - Article on Kray broke press code
13/05/99 - Brian Reade Column: Kray-zy Web of hits and myths
09/05/99 - The super high-kray notorious
13/02/99 - Charlie Kray fails to cut sentence for drug dealing
13/02/99 - Kray loses prison plea
10/02/99 - Kray jail appeal rejected
27/01/99 - Judgment reserved in Kray case
26/01/99 - Charlie Kray in Jail Plea
1998
30/12/98 - UK gangsters head for the media circuit
09/12/98 - Magazine may face legal action over crime column by Kray
14/11/98 - Cassius Kray
10/11/98 - Kray can challenge sentence
04/09/98 - Kray disowns thugs
22/08/98 - Reg Kray moves to OAP jail
09/05/98 - Reggie's flight of freedom
08/05/98 - Why Reggie Kray cannot be set free
07/05/98 - Kray parole `refused because of drinking'
02/04/98 - Parole Board dashes Kray's hopes of imminent release
02/04/98 - Kray - no way out
23/02/98 - Killer Kray 'ready for parole'
08/01/98 - Kray loses cocaine appeal
1997
15/11/97 - Reg Kray tells coma man come round for a cuppa
29/09/97 - Real people behind the myth
30/08/97 - Kray writes about his love of music from behind bars
27/08/97 - Kray gets a cushier jail
27/08/97 - Reg Kray a step
20/07/97 - Unchained melody as Reg weds his Roberta
15/07/97 - Flowers, but no champagne at Reggie Kray's wedding
15/07/97 - Prison wedding for Reggie Kray and bride of 38
14/07/97 - Reg Kray's stag night laser show
13/07/97 - I didn't think I could marry again but my love for Roberta is so strong...
06/07/97 - 'Today Reg Kray is my life. Everything I do, everything I am, is about Reg'
27/06/97 - Reg Kray punished for his radio rage
24/06/97 - Every jail hoodlum will want a potshot at Charlie
24/06/97 - `Hypocrite' Kray jailed for 12 years on drug charges
24/06/97 - Charles Kray gets 12 years for drug plot
23/06/97 - British court jails Kray 12 years for drug smuggling
21/06/97 - Guilty Kray's hitman contract on cops
21/06/97 - The quiet man with fists of steel
21/06/97 - East End Godfather's links with the Mob
21/06/97 - Twins' big brother is guilty
21/06/97 - Kray to die in prison
21/06/97 - The Kray's last hit
21/06/97 - The £39m cocaine scam that gave Kray's life story a surprise ending
20/06/97 - Kray jury sent home for the night
15/06/97 - The lords of the underworld
10/06/97 - Charlie Kray is innocent as a judge
10/06/97 - Court told of Kray, the lovely, lovely man
10/06/97 - Kray wouldn't know how to pinch a penny, says 'Mad' Frankie Fraser
06/06/97 - Deal drugs? Kray could not even deal cards
05/06/97 - Charlie Kray weeps over Ronnie's missing brain
05/06/97 - Kray was brainless when laid to rest
04/06/97 - Kray's Film 'HIT'
03/06/97 - 'Sting snared old fool Kray'
03/06/97 - Kray: I lied I was dealer
03/06/97 - I blew £100,000 sobs 'skint' Kray
03/06/97 - Twins were just
23/05/97 - Let's take Spice girl hostage
21/05/97 - Kray cop's drink with posh spice
15/05/97 - Charlie Kray 'tried to sell £39 cocaine to drug cops'
15/05/97 - Kray brother on trial for pounds 39m drug deal
07/05/97 - Jail booze wrecked Kray freedom hope
06/05/97 - Blur KO Reggie Kray's pop bid
06/05/97 - Damon snub for Reggie's pop songs
15/04/97 - Kray brother 'did £39m drug deal with policeman'
14/04/97 - Kray stands trial over drugs ring
11/04/97 - New bombshell for PM (or is it Blair?)
18/03/97 - Kray fans turn out to reconcile Ronnie with God
01/03/97 - Reg refuses jail move to stay with his robber pal
01/03/97 - Reggie Kray stays in jail to be with bandit pal
16/02/97 - 'Robin Hood' Reg Kray gives away his £100,000 lottery loot
30/01/97 - Kray denies threat over TV sketch
30/01/97 - You must be Krayzy
1996
22/11/96 - I'm not Reggie Gay
01/11/96 - Taxman chased Kray in prison
24/10/96 - British villain Kray salutes dead twin with fly-by
15/09/96 - Reggie has Kray diner in a stew
02/08/96 - Kray on drugs charges
06/07/96 - Reggie Kray let out for cancer test
09/06/96 - Kray man held in drug swoop
24/04/96 - Five more years for Reggie..
23/03/96 - Inquiry into Kray prison video
1995
30/03/95 - They did it their way
30/03/95 - It may have been Ron's funeral.. but it had been Reggie's day
30/03/95 - Reggie has a kiss for mum
30/03/95 - STARS JOIN IN THE £18,000 SEND-OFF
30/03/95 - Wreath just like a cosh
30/03/95 - Ronnie would have loved it
30/03/95 - Farewell my other half
30/03/95 - Cockneys down tubs of eels at pub wake
30/03/95 - Biggest funeral since Churchill
29/03/95 - An audience with Reggie Kray
29/03/95 - Reggie Kray: Ronnie died with no regret for killings
29/03/95 - Day the myth was mighter than murder
24/03/95 - Frail Reggie's farewell to Ron
18/03/95 - Mad Monster Ron
18/03/95 - OK, he was an evil killer but he never swore at old ladies
18/03/95 - Oh God, mother help me!
17/03/95 - Gangland killer Kray dies of heart attack
17/03/95 - Killer Ronnie Kray dies
1992
08/11/92 - Daft Gazza-nappers pass cell-buy date
31/10/92 - Three convicted of £300,000 drug deals
25/06/92 - Pair obsessed by evil brothers
25/06/92 - JAILED FOR 8 YEARS
25/06/92 - Kray crook-alikes made my flesh creep
04/06/92 - Plot to grab Gazza
1991
07/04/91 - What don't you do at a party? Answer: Toss Ronnie Kray's coat on the floor
1990
14/10/90 - What a Charlie!
13/08/90 - "The day our world turned upside down"
16/06/90 - Jailhouse rock
30/03/90 - Kray tribute as charity kid dies
12/03/90 - Kray KO Costa crook in charity boxing bash
??/03/90 - Good deeds and Kray charisma
09/02/90 - In my own write, by Reg Kray
1989
??/12/89 - Tragedy mum says: Thank you
06/10/89 - Krays help heart break kiddies
27/09/89 - KRAYS Inc
09/06/89 - Kray twins to boost fund for accident boy
22/04/89 - The party's over at an Acid House under the arches
1982
11/08/82 - Krays let out for mother's funeral
1969
05/03/69 - Krays will be sentenced for murder today
04/03/69 - Kray twins guilty of McVitie murder
1968
08/05/68 - Krays held on suspicion of murder
1965
08/01/65 - Krays remanded on menaces charge
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