Bringing Down The Krays by Teale Bobby

Author:Teale, Bobby [Teale, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781446491003
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 2012-05-23T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

A WALK IN THE WOODS

IT WAS ALL about getting things done as far as Reggie was concerned. That was how he was. The way he made it seem that day, he was just asking me very nicely if I could come and give him a hand doing some small bit of business that had to be got out of the way. We’d have to do it quickly and do it quietly. Just the two of us – Reggie Kray and Bobby Teale, the best of friends just as we’d always been.

We’d had a few drinks the night before round at Madge’s just as we’d agreed. Reggie had been very direct: have an early night and be round at Vallance Road at nine the next morning as we would have some running around to do, he had told me. I think that he and Ronnie had fixed it after I left the meet with Frosty. In fact I’m sure of it. I think that Ronnie told Reggie it was his turn to get something going. It was time to get rid of me. Perhaps I was Phillips, perhaps not – they couldn’t be sure. But either way I was getting too close to Reg and Ron wanted me out of the way. He’d leave Reggie to decide how to do it. Somewhere quiet – somewhere out of town.

It was Sunday 7 August. I got to Vallance Road a few minutes late and I started to open the front door to walk right in as we always did, but it was locked. So, I knocked. Reggie came to the door with only his trousers on and said, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. I thought it was open.’

I closed the door behind me and asked Reggie, ‘Should I lock it?’ Reggie said, ‘No, Connie Whitehead is on his way.’ I followed Reggie down the narrow passage to the kitchen and his mum, Violet, asked me: ‘Do you want a cup of tea?’

‘Yes,’ I said, ‘thank you.’ I sat in the kitchen and Reggie added, ‘I won’t be long,’ and he went to finish getting dressed.

There seemed to be no one else in, or at least no one awake and up in the house. Violet Kray was fussing around, putting shirts on hangers. She did a lot of that. ‘Reg,’ she said, ‘let me make you a nice breakfast,’ and turning to me she started chatting away, saying, ‘Bobby, you need some breakfast,’ and ‘How’s Nell, your lovely mum, doing?’

‘OK,’ I said, as I looked over to Reggie, who had just walked back into the room, to see if I could get a read as to whether we really would be staying for breakfast.

‘No Mum,’ he said. ‘I’ve got a meet to go on. We don’t have time,’ and out the door we went, with me going first. All the while we were looking all over the place as usual just in case anyone was going to make a hit on us.

It may sound crazy but I was never afraid of Reggie – or Ronnie – or any of the rest of the Firm.

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