The Krays | Jack the Hat McVitie | Anothony Lambrianou | East End| 1987

Some extracts from the Thames Television programme 'Another side of London' taken from a candid interview with Anthony Lambrianou part of the notorious Kray Twins gang. In these extracts Lambrianou describes the killing of Jack 'The Hat' McVitie and the sentencing of the Kray twins.
First shown: 18/08/1987
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[@Adam-wl8wn]

I didn't realise Tony had done a piece for tv like that. His book was very interesting.

[@Dangerman5]

Fascinating. He helped dispose of the body. He died in 2004.

[@wjl2182]

He was a hanger on in the last days of the 'Firm' as it was crumbling. He comes off as staunch but never mentioned he made a statement against the twins after being sent down for a reduced sentence. He didn't have the best reputation in prison amongst his peers. His book is very interesting on adapting to life after prison. But before that it's more of a kissing up to the Krays knowing how much they despised him. He'd turn up to all the cheesy Reg Kray 80's/90's 'charity' dos as a sort of 'Kray Firm personality' but once they'd both died he soon changed his tune to blaming them for getting 15 years. Christopher Lambrianou on the other hand is a total opposite. Strong character, intelligent. He was the one the police really wanted off the streets. Washed his hands of that life and turned his life and countless others around. A true inspiration to what anyone can accomplish if they want to turn their life around. However hard it can be.

[@mickymantle3233]

When I was put in solitary on the hospital wing of Parkhurst in 1977 under Dr Cooper (Coopers Troopers) I saw & talked to Ronnie Kray on the small hospital exercise yard. Before he was transferred to Broadmoor. He was immaculately dressed in a kind of dark blue tailored suit. (you could wear virtually anything in Parkhurst if you were a Lifer). He still exuded 'gangster' and talked quite softly & fluently. Believe me, in his day he must have been well respected (in his presence or to his face). When the medication trolley came around. Ronnie would step out a shoot down at least 5/6 medication shots.

[@tina5203]

You’re so Lucky to have met Ron . I Adore 🥰 him and what an honour it must have been for you to meet such a wonderful and fascinating man. As for Tony, he always was Loyal to Ron and he seemed a very nice and likeable man . Sad he spent the best years of his life inside various prisons for essentially being in the wrong place at the wrong time . All the sentences were very Harsh !!

[@pinkeyetaylor9]

@@tina5203 your very gorgeous !

[@stephendavies4210]

Dont think you would have had much fun with Ron Tina!

[@upsidedownworldexposed6735]

I've walked round-that little yard .

[@daffyduk77]

@@tina5203 If Ron was a wonderful man, your moral compass needs a reset. Killing someone because they called you a fat poof (or whatever minor disrespect). Or maybe you're joking, hopefully. Those types of crimes were really what the subsequent "whole life tariff" was for. Trouble is, short of solitary confinement/no phone access etc the Krays had the ability to order or persuade their "soldiers" outside to carry on with the bad stuff

[@mikegleed5842]

Cheers for uploading... I thought I'd seen everything on all this. Much appreciated. Also if anyone can find a copy of Chris Lambrianou's ' The day that changed my life' (which was filmed around 1995 I believe) it is well worth a watch. It was on KZbin a couple years ago but disappeared now.

[@thehomefront1905]

Thanks for uploading, never seen this before, he didn't deserve 15 years, got to feel for the guy.

[@harolddaxton3832]

I realize Im pretty randomly asking but does anybody know of a good website to watch newly released tv shows online?

[@kareemismael9001]

@Leonardo Caden Yup, have been using flixzone for months myself =)

[@harolddaxton3832]

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[@leonardocaden8247]

@Harold Daxton Glad I could help =)

[@Ironz89]

He grassed the twins to on his sentence appeal

[@DaraM73]

“I paid the ultimate price”. Except for the murdered dude, of course.

[@H1RFULT]

He didn’t murder him though the Krays would of killed him if he didn’t carry out driving the body

[@mcmeeve]

Tragic this man spent the best years of his life behind bars for protecting people who wanted him to take the rap for their own crimes

[@shaunstevenson8078]

Read Tony's book years ago, really good read

[@kevinblaylock391]

Respect to you, for turning your life around. All the best! 👍

[@Holly_2011]

He died in 2004

[@johndunn4246]

Feel sorry for the people that had nothing to do with the murder as they say wrong place wrong time

[@anthonymitchell8893]

We they did it's called joint enterprise if he led him to the house know g he was going to be killed he was implicit in his murder

[@ponyboycurtis3795]

From what many have said including Eric Mason and Joey Pyle was that Tony Lambrianou was the one who planned Jack The Hats murder and wound Reggie up to do it and then Tony and others pulled tools out and jumped all over him.. It was well out of order.

[@ponyboycurtis3795]

@Stanly Stud yes many have said he was just a flashy, big mouthed trouble causer.. Years ago my oldest brother had some friends and two of them were a pair of Irish brothers who were serious men, bare knuckle fighters, on the roids, working on the doors, fighting day in and day out and were real hard men.. But one of the brothers.. the younger one was quite a bit less capable than the other older brother and he knew it and was quite a bit jealous I think and would constantly wind the older one up and be in his ear until he snapped and would smash the intended targets face off.. As can imagine both brothers ended up doing plenty of bird for kidnappings, serious assaults, wounding etc etc and last I knew they don't speak and the younger one was in jail whilst the older has calmed down and moved back to Ireland.. But my point is that the younger brother in my story reminds me of Tony Lambrianou and how he wound Reggie up.

[@d.c2837]

🐂💩

[@fatlad5090]

he didn't even get half his sentence he did the full 15 years they all did but people locked up same time got to get out early imagine 15 straight years in the nick in the 70s 80s

[@SedriqMiers]

The Tiberius team believes that organised crime corruption infiltrated: The Metropolitan Police Service The City of London Police The Nation Crime Squad The National Criminal Intelligence Service Her Majesty's Customs and Excise The Crown Prosecution Service The Prison Service The Jury System The Legal Profession Source: Metropolitan Police Tiberius Report 2002 (available via archive dot org)

[@jasonantigua6825]

@@SedriqMiers There’s was no evidence whatsoever to back up any of those claims!!!

[@russcooke5671]

@@jasonantigua6825 the city of London is the biggest organised crime syndicate in the world. Who could infiltrate them.

[@danielmoran9902]

You can easily get involved in criminal activities, and just as easily avoid them.

[@CARLIN4737]

Not on my estate?

[@thomasmcdonnell7914]

Very sad, as he said.

[@michaelharrison3602]

Tony staunch loyal and genuine

[@michaelfrankie8443]

A very proper gentleman met him in the system many years ago rip 🙏

[@Holly_2011]

Me too. Met him in the Scrubs. Lovely bloke. God bless

[@grrr.9998]

Every law-abiding Brit hates a criminal until they're in their car. Then they'll happily do 90mph while texting on their phones.

[@GeorgeFreeman55]

Good point.

[@philpants44]

Cos everyone does that and totally the same as willfully stabbing someone to death ...

[@slyestfox935]

How they all talk in books papers on tv i thought the code was silence ?

[@shawngarratt2887]

He lead him to his death !

[@KarmasAbutch]

Now *everyone’s called Blud tha Hood instead

[@HappytubsDoncaster]

i was in court one at the bailey for service in the 90;s looked same as in this video

[@scottrudland3481]

Unfortunately you hang around losers you’ll become one. No disrespect and easy to say with modern technology and education But coming from someone who was a screw in a London jail unfortunately it’s not wrong place wrong time just immature men trying to prove something with peer pressure. Amount of inmates I’ve heard say “Never knew how much trouble I was in till it was to late” Proper respect this man and his sort as they didn’t bitch and blame everyone else a proper man’s man’s, unlike today a generation that will never be seen again sad to say may they all truly RIP

[@w00df0rd]

Great upload.

[@grahamwalton7154]

Jack the hat paid with his life. Tony was free after 15 year and could enjoy his time.

[@Holly_2011]

I saw him have a little straightener with some bloke when we was in the scrubs. Tony hit the geezer so hard his legs literally turned into trombones. Couldn’t believe it.

[@leeorr9071]

Tony was a top man

[@Shauno944]

Out of all the people ive heard tell these stories i always liked this chap the most, seemed a decent guy who just was tryinf to fill his pockets working with nutters.

[@Arfabiscuit]

Jack could have a rumble how they portrayed him in that Krays film was bollocks

[@patkearney9320]

I think Tony was the worst one of them he KNOWINGLY brought Jack to pay the butcher's bill. He knew Jack wasn't going to get a prize,why didn't he tell him to piss off? and yes I don't care he snitched he told them what happened and who done what. Wasn't even on there boys club firm.

[@SedriqMiers]

He used to make exceedingly good biscuits !

[@GeorgeFreeman55]

He did but he made a bad batch and Reggie killed him.

[@hmq9052]

"A different phrase of life" 🤓

[@basilbrush2209]

Yeah I noticed that. Makes you wonder. Like specific and guys say pacific

[@user-br3bw7wr2l]

Del Boy all over. 😂

[@davidjoseph3188]

15 years for him was bad 5 years yeh I like tony also freddie foreman

[@errolkim1334]

I went through a bad phrase....

[@Holly_2011]

His parents couldn’t afford Eaton. He was a Harrow man and hence the mispronunciation

[@TheJoker-fg4es]

What's the best book on the krays? Iv read our story but want more.

[@catsmad48]

The profession of violence by John Pearson...and I've literally read them all. This one's the best.

[@jasonayres]

A very sad, and insightful piece of history. I was thinking of a close relative who's spent time inside. It's no laughing matter. Speaking of laughing matters, I am interested in the serious material, but could you also dig out the mind numbing instructional videos and politicians in colourful suits..?

[@ilovetattoos9682]

It’s funny how everyone slags the krays off now they are dead

[@chrisj622]

I wasn’t alive when they were but they were cocks

[@diehard21000]

Maybe because it's easier to slag people of with social media now, anybody can put video on you tube now, rather then being in tv.

[@RoyChadwick51]

The krays got banged up at 35 and NEVER seen the light of day again . Locked up in 1969 !!! All the 70s and 80s and 90s LOCKED UP ❤ And people look up to these , seriously ? I’d rather look up to the man down the road who supports his family ❤

[@BobbytheWolf89]

The man who pulled off the world famous wimpy robbery. Got away with over a dozen buns

[@AUBERGINEize]

Who

[@seanmwh]

He got a raw deal he shoulf never have done 15 years behing the door it wasn`t his fault the Krays murdered Jack Mcvitie they did him a diservice.

[@The.panthera.]

Served 15 years for just associating with thugs

[@hilltopviewer8204]

You spelled Anthony wrong! Capice!

[@trinihammer]

you spelt capeche wrong.

[@MrM3-8888]

Sorry was this Ronnie's boyfriend??

[@davidfelix2594]

Loftus Road is not a few yards away from Scrubs, it's over a mile and a half away and with the noise of the traffic going by i very much doubt he could hear their games from his cell, i've been in scrubs, my cell was on the 4's and i never heard them.

[@kadijakallon2533]

That’s what I was thinking. I’ve walked past the prison in the night time and thought it was impossible

[@richardcoats6430]

His ears do look quite receptive tbf

[@stephenodonoghue464]

@@kadijakallon2533 I LIVED IN BRAYBROOK STREET MY BACK GARDEN WALL WAS THE PRISON WALL,EVERY SUNDAY THE SCRUBS WAS FULL OF FOOTBALL GAMES NOT KIDS GAMES,THEY HAD CHANGING ROOMS AND SHOWERS,THATS WHAT HE WAS TAKING ABOUT,THE GAMES HAD CROWDS THERE WATCHING

[@paulrush2792]

Mate he is talking in the 60s, there was not half as many cars on the road , you could probaly hear a pin drop back then

[@davidfelix2594]

@@stephenodonoghue464 I'll rewatch it then buddy, could have sworn he was referring to the QPR games but i may have heard wrong, i'm very familiar with the scrubs playing fields, used to play there myself as a kid, i remember the showers and changing rooms etc.

[@tonyinit8488]

Frankly I prefer looking at Judith chalmers....

[@richiestrich8079]

Mug

[@moss1transcendant]

The nick , it's a slow motion shit storm.

[@user-yu6pw6dk9p]

Lying W⚓️

[@goldentrowel1968]

Super grass