Interviewing The Blundell Brothers: 'The Kray Twins' Of Essex | British Gangsters | Absolute Crime

Welcome to Essex, the cradle of rave party culture in the UK. With a huge existing club scene and an entrepreneurial culture, it was the natural environment for the rave culture and new and old criminals could see that there was a fortune to made. In episode 4, Bernard O'Mahoney explores the consequences of crime in what went on to become one of Britain's most notorious crime regions, including interviews with with Eddie Blundell, Billy Blundell, Lew Yates, Andy Swallow, Steve "Nipper" Ellis and Sandy Percival.
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[@dw2261]

Anyone reminded of the Driscoll brothers from Only Fools 😂

[@SonnyBlakk187]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 knew they reminded me of someone

[@terrymccan5891]

Really funny KZbin comment well done

[@jamiesomers3078]

Hahahaha good shout lar 😅😅

[@samanthaharding2812]

@@SonnyBlakk187😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-ky4nt6mi8w]

@@terrymccan5891you being sarcastic? I hope not 🤬

[@joeletaxi821]

I worked for Eddie Blundell on the ice cream. Billy had a baby with my mates sister. They were never threatening to the workers. We were just kids. The heavyweight boxer Funso Banjo worked with me. He is the father of the dancer Ashley Banjo. I knew Lenny Wiltshire from the Dagenham Working Mens Club and Peter Costa because he ran the doors in the area. Anyway, I was young and these people were already quite old. I never got involved and went to work on a Monday morning. For all their stories, the Blundells were the only people that had money and that came from selling ice cream, a good business. Everyone else wound up with nothing, having done a lot of bird. So kids, enjoy the stories but don't go down this road. The best you can hope for is to do time and spend your old age with fuck all.

[@BC-nl9ph]

Better than the torture of a life a servitude that kills any soul you may have been born with

[@joeletaxi821]

@@BC-nl9ph I'm a very successful business man and I'm served by people like you. You see, if you have the brain, you don't need to steal it. Only fools need to steal.

[@jamisu5467]

Hi Joe. I preferred Rossis ice cream.

[@michaelwilson4316]

There fossils mush

[@scottleonknight5387]

Wankets 😮

[@Prc205]

Moral of the story, stay away from crime.

[@nikkihearn3309]

Brilliant summing up at the end

[@gerauldvellabrincat6241]

What fine fellows. Making communities joyful for everyone. Crime is not the way.

[@jonjakb5193]

Better the devil you know

[@jackbuff_I]

Trust me, it's families like these that used to keep people on the straight and narrow in communities where the police wouldn't or just gave up on.

[@CliffordWhite-em2kd]

The Driscal Brothers from Only Fools and Horses 😂

[@090763terryhar]

This is pure comedy class 😂😂😂

[@marcfulker5756]

I remember going to one of their parties and not knowing who they were. Apparently Billy offered me some pills and I'd refused saying i could get them cheaper. One pf the people I went to the party with came upto me shortly after asking me what had transpired. I told him and he then told me who it was who had come up to me and that I was lucky they didnt take offense to what I'd said. I was only 17 at the time

[@justonsullivan3807]

This was a good one. 👊🇺🇲🗽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👊

[@2pac-yq4cy]

Hello feds

[@moleyofsouthend-on-sea8837]

Churchills in Southend was recently Demolished. It was on the Corner of Tylers Avenue/ Chichester Road by the Bus Station. In the late 80's it was known as '' Turtle Bay''.

[@Crosshatch1212]

And that’s where they where popped ,ull see it’ll come out .

[@michaeloliver7805]

This is the funniest comedy sketch ever!!! 😂😂

[@Bennynoye]

It really is , the Driscol brothers 😂😂😂

[@andrewcox2810]

Nothing like earning an honest pound.Won’t get rich but you at least can sleep at night with both eyes shut.

[@CrueLoaf]

Bang on! These folks are constantly looking over their shoulder.

[@annonymous3948]

Don't you mean "pound note"!

[@gunnerboyd]

Yeah but then you can’t do the same podcast over and over again 30 years later when your stone cold broke.

[@richg1677]

Although the stories are entertaining, you can’t help but feel pity for them watching them, the only sense of validation they get is clinging on to stories that you know are embellished, crime is not now or never has been the way to go

[@ypure3859]

absolutely right

[@paulmorganmorgan7541]

Great video bernard 👏

[@2pac-yq4cy]

Sleeping with the sea crabs

[@marcoantonio078]

"I lost 8 pints" yeah ok. What a pair of sad old men. Who still think violence is the business.

[@marsultra7032]

He looks like "Frank doberman " from the fast show 😂😂😂

[@martinintrospective3491]

I used to run clubs in the Midlands. I had loads of different family’s, firms in my clubs. I suppose people would call them gangsters . They were OK with me , but their life of violence , crime etc . Didn’t end well lots of jail & funerals .

[@Simo_NG]

Nottingham by any chance?

[@martinintrospective3491]

687 officers 👮‍♀️ in the met in London accused of sex offences against women & girls in the last 12 months . They all lie for each other because it’s much higher than that

[@jackbuff_I]

Which clubs bud? D'ya know Schoey? ...Eric? I used to have a lil something going in 1 particular venue in the Midlands for a few years.. awesome AWESOME times.

[@staypositive5718]

@@jackbuff_Iwhat was it you done mate? And where do you live?

[@alexjmurphy2145]

Yeah, ask him whats his date of birth n mums maiden name too bro ​@@staypositive5718

[@HappytubsDoncaster]

i grew up around dagenham .Romford 70s and 80s. started going to clubs late 80s. we never had laff the trouble kids get today! never had trouble at the room at the top in Ilford!

[@mrkipling2201]

I had that Woodstock 2 flyer. Big A3 size thing. I thought it was cancelled a couple of weeks beforehand?? Calling a club or rave ' the pink toothbrush ' !! Crazy and brilliant!!

[@howardjames227]

I thought it was cancelled..sure i was going then i wasnt

[@mrkipling2201]

​@@howardjames227same here. I'm sure it was cancelled. Good days though

[@spencerkarter1878]

It was cancelled, and it was a dreamscape event, nothing to do with the early days that the guy in this video was going on about. That flyer they used here was from around ‘93

[@jamiesomers3078]

"He smashed our window we shouldve smashed one of theirs" Fukcccc offfff 😅😅😅

[@Tony.Lee10]

Proper gangsters wouldn’t be on camera washing there dirty laundry in public

[@nikreece6295]

they were proper gangsters unlike the essex boys...But both long retired, and the media had long known about organised crime by this time anyway...

[@jamiesomers3078]

,£££

[@Pobsta-de7hb]

When you have a ton of underworld figures saying that these guys were gangsters and they were a heavy outfit and not to be messed with on one side and on the other, a little ponce most likely with ginger pubes although his hair is like dry weird wire and scatty but not ginger which is funny saying "proper gangsters wouldn´t be on camera washing their dirty laundry in public" as he chews down on the stale but still just about edible pack of cheese doritos before he slumps to his single bed for to sleep for the rest of the day I know what side I am believing and listening to and it ain´t you lol

[@Tony.Lee10]

@@Pobsta-de7hb your a kind of guy who would believe anything and everyone - when your legit when your under world it’s a very simple rules - you don’t grass & your don’t go on camera & start mouthing off you just don’t do it. As for the character who you have built in your head about me keep dreaming and keep watching these plastic heavy’s talking absolutely tripe

[@Pobsta-de7hb]

I believe people who were around and in that life over you, nothing more nothing less. Laters

[@addictedtoangling]

Rickys mother is heartbreaking it takes a true horrible bastard to blame another man your crimes and get him locked away for 28yrs and causing such suffering to his family

[@bigphilhickin962]

This ricky stitch up has bit of the retterdon murderers to it.. we're the police this corrupt... or are police covering the back of big time gangsters??? What I will say if no mad murders happen in next 5 years of so then it can only point to one big gangster that's already gone... and I'm not talking dave courtney..

[@MILITARY1231]

Sounds like just a normal day in any town now a days.

[@runswithwindz9875]

Loose the fantasy folks ! Bouncers are low paid, sad, bottom feeders who like to beat up silly pist teenagers ! In my early career I had to arrest many of these bullys. There are some good guys doing this job for sure, but these are not the ones who talk about how hard they are.

[@runswithwindz9875]

Didn't I say that ?@@S.Trades

[@ypure3859]

I agree....pathetic isn't it

[@andydavies5883]

He shot him and then he shot them and then I shot him again because I knew he was gonna shoot me so I shot them all. Strange how nobody ever got killed. WHAT A LOAD OF OLD TOSH 😂

[@antonclark]

I’d love to hear you say this to their face lol

[@edforbes1563]

If he said this to their face then they would shoot him. Then he would shoot them back. Then he'd shoot them again and everyone would be shot. CAN EVERYONE STOP GETTING SHOT.

[@andydavies5883]

@@antonclark If he shot me he would miss 😂

[@recall2880]

“Would everyone stop getting shot”

[@richg1677]

@@recall2880 ……’’I don’t believe this’’

[@robbieallan6522]

He said he'd lost 8 pints of blood but the human body only hold 8 to 10 pints of blood maybe a bit more but you lose 8 pints you're gonna be in a coma unless they knew his blood type and started getting it into ASAP, tbh I think 8 pints is a bit of an exaggerated story, I lost 4 pints after an accident on a fishing boat that nearly cut my hand off and on the way to hospital I fell into unconsciousness and when I got my faculties together a couple days later the doctors said if the boat had taken 5 more minutes to Dock and the ambulance hadnt been waiting I'd have not woken up due to blood loss, I think they used plasma cuz I was barley conscious and certainly didn't know my blood type to relay to the ambulance.

[@jonpall3760]

Billy reminds me of Charlie Jolson from the ps2 game “the getaway”!!

[@its_rick_james_bich2575]

When you come across a guy with a lisp and someone from their crew called “Johnny fairy” don’t assume there from old Compton street or spurs fans..they could be your worst nightmare!😢

[@SlapRoundTheChops]

That woman at the end has been through some shit. Think of your parents when you go and commit crimes, kids!

[@benfitton4419]

O’mahoney is a brilliant narrator of this stuff

[@Craigyboi01]

Shame he's a liar grass and fantasist

[@annonymous3948]

Yeah, he has that monotone brain-dead working class tone to us voice.

[@rnw2739]

Yeah, it's like a crime documentary narrated by Jasper Carrott.

[@JanSobieski3rd-kp2fw]

The blundell brothers more like the chuckle brothers!

[@freemindthinkerezrapound5071]

Crime is a mugs game and they are selfish mugs who hurt their nearest and dearest more than any of their enemy's could ever do, just look at the pain in that poor moms face

[@jamiesplinter8758]

Just because the government calls it a crime doesn't mean anything when they're hypocritical they change the words to suit themselves

[@johnfraser8897]

I know

[@johnfraser8897]

How true

[@jackbuff_I]

it's not a mugs game when you're a Coughlan, Kinnehan or an Adams.. or the others that will go unmentioned. When you're at a certain level, all is good. It's rare mind.

[@bigphilhickin962]

​@jackbuff_ blundellIs there's nothing written on Google searches on them.. the last two yes.. goes to show u that the blundells were bigger

[@mosiemi1]

Those were the days, I was introduced to dance music

[@arielsupport2553]

Alright lads good luck see yo again its paul pauley Jones from Durham nice one

[@Pobsta-de7hb]

Lost 8 pints of blood, I had to pause it as I laughed so hard. You do not lose 8 pints of blood and live to tell anybody about it lol.

[@hardyminardi3470]

6:14 I too would be angry if I lost that much beer.

[@famtastic6367]

Thumbnail should have been 9 minutes of talking to the blundelll’s then we tell the next 15 years of Essex drug scene 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@patkearney9320]

I feel sorry for Ricky and mother poor woman is broken case's like this must have complete proof of guilt before sending a Man away.

[@Hackett1066]

Bob Hoskins is looking well 😂

[@richardplume3212]

Its madona

[@AndrewEdwards-uj9my]

88.3 back in the day was a good time always had the station on my radio even going to Woodstock crazy 😂😂 but I never took drugs you didn't need to

[@davidquinn7144]

Jackanory comes to mind

[@Krankyoldtime64]

These two were sharp back in the day, proper capers..creative too. Props and respect is well deserved for these two, top geezers from a different era.

[@Stanly-Stud]

Yes lovely boys

[@deeppurple883]

My taughts are with this lady at the end. She is destroyed over her innocent sons imprisonment. New trail, justice. ✊☘️

[@S.Trades]

New trial, too!

[@rnw2739]

what's a taught? How do you know she wants it?

[@alexandersteele477]

Every time i see wives/girlfriends/mothers of these villains on these videos I think of the band SQUEEZE and their hit song 'COOL FOR CATS" lol 🤣😂🤣

[@SharpFitnessLook]

My m8 was into the ICF an told us to come to one of their small raves, I just fell on edge as if everyone was carrying something,couldn't enjoy myself

[@scottandrewhorne4655]

If Ricky Never Done This Then This Is ABSOULUTLEY Fing Disgusting. Wow Poor Family. I Have Been Wrongly Remanded In Prison And Every Time I Was Innocent The System Is Flawed And Full Of Corrupt Souless People.

[@jimgavin1726]

I think the word you were looking for is ‘flawed’. By every time, I presume you mean on several occasions? And you were innocent EVERY time?? What’s your nickname? LUCKY????

[@scottandrewhorne4655]

have a lovely D day jim

[@hellohandsome9875]

And the villains are angels, right?

[@bigphilhickin962]

Whos ricky?

[@BlacksmithBets]

Interesting to hear both sides, very different to O’Hallerans story

[@timothypearce2633]

Bless Rickys mum x

[@grahamhunter4996]

Cant say I'm happy , my sons a cop.on backshift tonight.god bless the .who do you call when in trouble. Heart breaking.Xx

[@dannyg9468]

What’s the song at the end🤠

[@briandancer7959]

Its the driscull brothers and I'm still looking at where is the little one who was Mike who was in the young ones, back in the day lmfao 😂

[@PeasGraveny]

These 'Faces Of The Underworld' documentary series are BOM's finest hour I think.

[@RubbishGimpy]

It always makes me smile hearing the lispy poofter one talk.

[@gilliganzyland577]

I thought Dumb & Dumber was just a movie...

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

It's Uncle Fester recruiting for the Adams Family!! I'm here all week.......................................🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@apintofbeer1667]

Two registered Police Informers

[@user-rv1wf6sd4p]

If anyone can follow their story..you're a better woman than me!😅😅

[@annonymous3948]

Watching/listening to this nonsense is like listening to a class of 3 year old recalling their version of a classroom fight...it's exhausting to follow and by the end of it all you're ready to take my own life - because you're know no more at the end, than you did at the start of the whole jackanory. Perfect case in point, try an follow this shot from 32:23 to 38:14! Wtf!!

[@averagejoe9642]

Ah no I came for the comments but got here too early!

[@edforbes1563]

Nothing worse than arriving too early Joe.

[@cw7767]

Done some security for Bill a few times. Old school gent.

[@coam3708]

They took the piss out of ordinary folk

[@dean7652]

Aren’t the Adams still serious players

[@thetruthwillsetyoufree7167]

They r and patsy done him in Maidstone

[@TRY.BE.BETTER]

Soon as a heard the voice of bs bernie it went off

[@jimgavin1726]

We spanked them!! We marked their cards, we were 4/5 handed…. Who writes this nonsense. 😂😂😂

[@roguesheep1747]

Its a time thing mate those are the terms from the 60s 70s 80s

[@johndean4765]

Jimgavin we have to appreciate that often the actual truth is twisted around and embellished.

[@annonymous3948]

​@johndean4765 why let the truth get in the way of a good "yarn"!

[@RDRD0611]

I used to box for the blundells and tbh BOM might be a bit of a pillock but if you wasn’t around these parts of town around these people you wouldn’t believe it but I remember all these events unfolding as I grew up. And tbh billy was an honest respectful man I still talk to his grandsons and family now

[@Leo-dr4qm]

Family of informers

[@TheSavagederek]

His grandson is in prison for shooting someone a while back .

[@RDRD0611]

@@Leo-dr4qm you have no weight for that

[@Bennynoye]

0:15 , is this a joke ? the driscoll brothers 😂😂😂

[@JamieBennett-fw1ct]

You both made statements, That mars bar is your recipe 🤣

[@ROCKYERIC]

These old boys love telling there stories

[@stephenjones3477]

They where grasses lenny Wiltshire cut his boat and Blundell grassed him up and he got 7 years

[@leegardiner7916]

Ronnie pickering will be shitting himself....

[@Matlacha_Painter]

Ahhh. The lifestyle everyone wants…

[@mrkipling2201]

I wonder if Alvin's friends were called Simon and Theodore??

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

Proof of all Claims are Required.

[@rogersimmons8788]

Two brain cells each!

[@Craigyboi01]

That's being generous. They share one

[@louie1066]

What lovely people.

[@kevinmadigan2340]

This is a repeat from another channel. Hopefully someone asked permission to upload this

[@anthonystephenheath3752]

Mitchell brothers looking well

[@caragray7010]

Are these guys still on the go.

[@adriantowe278]

I only knew billy and for some reason he used to find it funny and buzz of me laughing he said i had a dirty laugh and would make me laugh i never seen him do that for anyone else but they was a 45 years old age gap he felt he could let his gard down with me i was not a threat good days rest easy bill 😊😊😊

[@briandancer7959]

Ive thought that loads of bloody times 😂

[@danielhowe-gv9jm]

I boxed at this gym belhus park South ockendon

[@martinintrospective3491]

The Old Bill fit people up for crimes if they can’t get the real culprit anybody will do. Try & make sure it’s not you by not being in the wrong place with the wrong company of people at the time ?Jails are full of people who were found guilty of a crime. But not always the culprits .

[@garybanks-mu9ik]

Stop making excuses for the corrupt paedophile protecting rapists

[@abracadabra5636]

Example?

[@robertandrews5640]

WHAT DRIVEL

[@martinintrospective3491]

Example me witnessed by a magistrate & team of solicitors. The Magistrate had had enough he said you’re used to the defendants lying sometimes but when the police do it quite often . How are you supposed to make a informed decision ?

[@martinintrospective3491]

The magistrate resigned . Some people really should get out more & mix with different people . The police do lie & fit people up , maybe not as often but they do. There’s plenty of fact based films& documentaries that are fact based out there . There has been quite a few high profile cases involving policemen committing horrendous crimes .

[@blackpearl3392]

I remember Blundells from seventh avenue Manor Park, I was only little used to let us play in his ice cream vans,

[@darrincassidy9045]

Lol

[@richiestrich8079]

He said he’d lost 8 pints of blood lol he would be dead thats all you have in your body! What a total thick W⚓️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bostonlincolnshire8745]

Don't wish to sound rude, but i'm sure i've listened to this vid clip b4 and this is a repeat.

[@mrfreckle9444]

The gay one likes an Alf Garnet impersonation 🤣🤣🤣

[@Cornell851]

It's a different story when you hear Ryan Simms (Danny O'halloran's son) version 🙄

[@ianbroughton2987]

There's always a boxing ring at the back with these so called gangsters

[@joannamorgan6911]

Sad old men who still think they are hard. Ridiculous!

[@hellohandsome9875]

Lost eight pints of blood? Yeh right

[@wrexhamdragons]

You know how big the Blundells were. Only Fools And Horses played tribute with the Driscoll Brothers . The two ll's in the surname? One being tall and one vertically challenged. They seem to know what happened that fateful night at Rettendon. 8 shots fired and 7 cartridges recovered, Someone took away a souvenir

[@trickydicky_1265]

I’m assuming people tell you, you talk Bollocks!

[@1superocky1]

they knew 👍

[@stephenstead6333]

Your must be talking about the Krays the one in the Krays was Charlie the other two well bullying the the word for Ronnie And his twin brother

[@gutz323]

Nah! It would been left in the gun. It was a pump action shotgun. Each time you fire it, you pump it, it ejects the spent cartridge and put the next one in the chamber. When the shooter finished shooting, he had no reason to eject the last cartridge, because he had finished. The last cartridge got thrown away with the gun.

[@jamesodriscoll6748]

There always two ll in driscoll/ o driscoll no other.way of spelling the name

[@raycorrigan3297]

Spankings and Billy Swallows? Oohh

[@maisysadventure3576]

What a couple of plonkers Rodney! Ice cream sellers they had a fight over a 99 and apparently they lost hundreds and thousands

[@mrkipling2201]

Then they ' flake-d ' out.....

[@donlogan6697]

Look into what they did at the Weeley festival in the early 70’s. They were heavily outnumbered by the hells angels but they smashed the lot of them. Eddie lives near me and believe me they were a handful.

[@Mrpureflavoursgenetics]

You from ockendon then

[@mrkipling2201]

@donlogan6697 how's life under the swimming pool?? 😂😂 brilliant film 👍👍

[@johndean4765]

Donlogan no great opposition our so called Hells Angels were too soft to tangle with real hard men.

[@coam3708]

Absolute BS they had everyone from all over London teamed up and just moved in the so called hells angels were SFA

[@bigphilhickin962]

The long good Friday are based on the blundells

[@BanzGz205]

remember folks your actions not only damage your life but everyone around you too, do the crime you do the time its that simple, dont take drugs stay prayed up and live life with kindness and love alg to party here and here but not like they did, they had sad miserable lifes make better choices family

[@rossmonkhouse6512]

Chuckle brothers.

[@ExoticDoll]

I do like the interviewer.

[@tonyking9235]

GOOD TIMES BERNEY. SORRY TO HEAR YOU LOST YOUR BELOVED ⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘

[@nofarkgood7597]

"We sent some of our soldiers"......ffs. Obviously think they're the mob. Mayer Lansky, Bugsy Seigel, Malone, Vito Genovese to name but a few were proper mobsters. They make these two look like tellytubbies, and would have treated them as such!

[@TonytheTiger-fc6wl]

If you lived in aveley where they lived in a big farm house you knew what these two really about… I’ll say no more

[@Krankyoldtime64]

That and Temple Farm just outside Chelmsford. Amazing times, totally lawless and terrifying all at once.

[@grimmreaper7720]

As a mid 20s boy i used to fish his lake by the house and him and his staffy and shotgun used to come and sit with me for a coffee for 30mins or so chatting about life and fishing and he was great,some life lessons etc,One Sunday night fishing the lake which was rare i was set apon by some travelers trying to relive me of my fishing tackle,He must of heard the raised voices (mainly mine) and before i knew it there was 3 very scared travelers pleading there innocence,the man was no bully if anything he took care of the people that could not take care of themselves when in certain situations.I will never forget him for that.

[@gutz323]

​@bertclarke2055did they both live together in the same house? Bit weird if they did. Was they both married?

[@chrisyboy666]

4 year on the doors and he still didn’t manage to save the 10k up