Hello and

today we head back to August 11th,

1982 and the funeral of Violet Cray,

the mother of Britain's two most feared gangsters of all time, the Cray Twins.

The first public appearance in 13 years of the notorious Cray Twins allowed out of prison

for their mother's funeral.

By the time of their mother's death, Ronnie and Reggie Cray were both serving life sentences

for murder, and Ronnie was an inmate in a secure institution for the criminally insane

and yet their extraordinary life of crime and vicious brutality had also seen them socialising with London's elite.

The twins were already urban legends.

Inevitably there was certain tension at this extraordinary funeral, but there was not a hint of trouble.

The funeral cortege arrived at the church in spectacular style with a convoy of black limousines.

It was like royalty being buried.

You had these crowds and crowds of people.

Maureen Flanagan knew the craze extremely well. She'd been Mrs craze hairdresser for the past 20 years.

I was standing outside the church and then a van, Paul Dark, prison van.

Today Reggie was flanked by detectives.

He's still classed as a category A prisoner.

He got out of this van and I heard a cheer go up, people shouting out,

Reg, Reg, I'm over here, look it's Sally or it's Tom or it's...

And his hair was starting to go gray so he looked very distinguished and waving

like like the Queen Mother.

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