Biography of the Crai brothers

It tells the real story of the Crai brothers-twin bandits from the outskirts of London, who at one time crushed a significant part of the business in the city. The picture intelligibly explains the reasons for the collapse of Regina and Ronnie, shows the details of the criminal business and shares the features of their difficult characters. But in it some important facts are omitted from the life of British mafiosi, which are better to know than not to know.

In fact, the Craev family had three sons: the eldest - Charlie and the younger - the twins of Rezhi and Ronnie. Despite the fact that the adult brother was not part of their future criminal syndicate, he also managed to sink his cases. Ronnie, Charlie and Reggie and Gary’s nephew near his home house Charlie was engaged in business from an early age, and his father responded about him as a serious and hardworking guy.

However, in the year, when the brothers went on the way, they suddenly came to them from Scotland Yard. It turned out that Ronnie and Reggie were directly engaged in criminal things, and Charlie negotiated with lawyers and helped in minor fraud. For this, the older brother was put for 7 years, and the twins were given lifelong. When Charlie left the prison, he tried to do the legal business - he provided film acquisitions with bodyguards.

In the camp of law -abiding entrepreneurs, the older brother did not stay for a long time: in the year he was convicted of smuggling and drug trafficking. In the year, Charlie Crai died in an English prison. In the “Legend”, only the addiction of the twins of Crai to boxing is mentioned in passing: During a dialogue with his future wife, Rezie says that in his youth he wanted to become a professional boxer.

In reality, both brothers constantly fought with each other and at the same time beat the faces of the whole district. Mother Violet to all the challenges to the police station and the complaints of others reacted the same way: the boys could not do this, they simply slander them. And his father was busy at work - he traded everything in a row: clothes, equipment, metal.

Ronnie and Reggie - the right and left, respectively - becoming at the steering wheel of a large gangster group, they continued to openly pose in front of the cameras. The twins were born and grew up in East end-the poor, dirty and dangerous area of ​​London, in which you are either beating or enduring beating. The fate of Regina and Ronnie was clear immediately: their grandfather was called “Jimmy's cannon nucleus” - for a steep temple and a blow set in boxing training.

The brothers were still sent in the adolescence to the boxing section. Even then, they were strikingly different to fight: Ronnie walked ahead, and Rezhi calmly exhausted his opponent. Close communication and great love for each other in the twins were manifested in strange ways. For example, some biographers argue that before growing up Ronnie and Reggie did not disdain sex with each other.

According to unconfirmed information, both brothers were homosexuals, and not just Ronnie, as stated in the book and the film.

More precisely, he did not recognize himself gay, preferring the less hot term “bisexual”. However, in rare sources, you can find information that in childhood mafiosi was so shy about their own features that they made love with each other. In the times of their violent activity, they tried not to talk about such details, and now, probably, they can invent anything.

It turned out that from the service the negligent twins returned even more dangerous and confident bandits. Tales about their two-year army holidays can be told for a long time: for example, once they went to a self-wolf, and they were caught by a policeman, whom the brothers, without hesitation, beat up to half death. As a result, the next 9 months, the mafiosi spent at the guardhouse, where they earned real prison authority.

They burned mattresses, beat the guards and established criminal ties, after which they reached out the almost ready legends of London. This time twins spent with benefit: they wrote memoirs, poems, songs and painted paintings. The latter not so long ago sold at auction 15 thousand pounds apiece. The film "Legend" at the Russian box office from October 1.