Krays - The Final Countdown by Fry Colin

Author:Fry, Colin [Colin Fry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Published: 2011-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

20.

October 1967: ‘Jack the Hat’

The death of Frances caused a severe deterioration in the psyche of Reg Kray. Ron dominated him more than usual now that Frances was out of his life and the only way that Reg could get through each day was to drink. At first it was to get over the death of his young wife – but then it became a habit. Ron had won the battle of the minds and Frances was out of his brother’s life – forever.

But Reg just couldn’t forget – and he couldn’t forgive. In the main he couldn’t forgive himself for not seeing it, for not being there for her, for not understanding her plight as a gangster boss ‘moll’. He had put her up on a pedestal and then he had shot her down in flames. It wasn’t Ron who caused her death – it was him, Reg Kray, and no one else.

Reg was in a daze. He spent his time boozing and talking about Frances. Everything he did reminded him of her – and every time he took a woman to bed he remembered his wife and he remembered the pain he had caused her. Reg didn’t have problems with other women – he didn’t care for them, he didn’t love them. Frances had been different.

Things went from bad to worse as Reg tried to look for something to take his mind off things – and the only way to do that was to shoot his way out. He had his back against the wall and it was time to move, to show he was the equal of his brother in toughness and brutality. It was time to kill.

The first man he shot was a friend called Frederick. If he was willing to shoot his friends, then what about his enemies? The Firm and other gangs now began to fear Reg more than Ron, who had already achieved his ‘button’ and therefore had nothing to prove. Everyone knew he was a killer; everyone knew he was a paranoid schizophrenic.

Frederick wasn’t exactly expecting to be shot. Some months earlier he had said something not too pleasant about Frances but he was sure that Reg had forgotten all about the incident. Unfortunately for him, Reg Kray had a long memory and he wouldn’t let sleeping dogs lie.

One evening, after a huge drinking session, he got one of the Firm to drive him over to Frederick’s house. A woman opened the door with a hoard of screaming children in tow. Reg caused a fuss – swearing at the woman and trying to enter the house. The noise attracted the attention of her husband, who approached the top of the stairs leading down to the hallway. As he strolled quietly down the stairs Reg Kray drew a gun. The children hid behind their mother and their mother hid herself in the darkness of the hallway as best she could. Reg raised his gun and fired.

Frederick fell down the stairs. He had been shot in the leg and was in agony as the blood started to flow and melt into the carpet.

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