Almost three decades on, sitting in Southall's community centre - where Misty used to play before the council introduced noise restrictions - Poko laments the Southall of his youth, which resisted the NF. "We had such strength," he says. "We felt we could do anything." But he shouldn't be downhearted, because as a result of the anti-racist campaigners' efforts, the Front were finished as a mass political force and police racism was exposed. What on Earth is so funny?” I asked, still perplexed after several minutes of watching the shopkeeper nearly split his sides. Ronnie later stated about his childhood: "We had our mother, and we had each other, so we never needed no one else". [11] One of the Krays' cousins who attended school with them, Billy Wilshire, recalled: "It's hard to say exactly what it was, but they weren't like other children". [12] The Krays' biographer, John Pearson, argued that their mother planted the seeds of the malignant narcissism that the twins would display as adults by encouraging her sons to think of themselves as being extraordinary while spoiling their every whim. [13] Gangster Charlie Kray dies". BBC. Archived from the original on 5 October 2007 . Retrieved 28 October 2007.

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