He was best man at Ronnie Kray's wedding but also a friend of rival South London mobster Charlie Richardson, and both families were present to pay their respects. Pyle, who was keen to get his money back, went along with the story and pretended he could get heroin for "Dave", even though he didn't deal in the drug.

We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. Had they met on the streets of London in their 1960s heyday, the result would undoubtedly have been violence at its most extreme.In his late teens, Pyle faced the choice of being a professional boxer – he paid his dues in boxing booths at travelling fairs, and contested over 20 professional fights – or a career criminal. One-time partner of Dutch drug czar Klass Bruinsma, he was allegedly head of the drugs division of the Bruinsma organisation during the 1980s. He would approach pub-owners after violent fights had taken place in their pubs and suggest they paid him to provide security. It was testament to Mr Pyle's people skills that representatives of one-time sworn enemies the Krays and the Richardsons attended the funeral. After the Richardsons were jailed in 1967, the Krays, the Nashes, Foreman and Pyle came to an informal agreement after a series of meetings about splitting the proceeds from their various protection rackets (whether it was simply from their most recent ones, or from ones that were long established, was a moot point), with Ronnie Kray talking about a "federation" of gangs.

No long after, Raft and Cellini were deported from Britain following government concerns about Mob involvement in West End casinos. Here the jury were only assigned numbers and hidden from the public gallery, so there was no chance they could be nobbled. Go back to what your mother taught you': TV presenter Susannah Constantine on the six money-saving hacks that helped her cut energy use on laundry by a THIRD! Dont know if its been mentioned on here already but Joey Pyle died today, his name appeared a number of times in some of Paul's books and by all accounts was a good friend.His criminal reach knew no bounds, with the FBI claiming to have evidence linking Joey to members of the Genovese and Gambino families. Snooker star Jimmy White, boxer Gary Mason and actor Kenny Lynch were among those paying their respects. Hamas claims IDF strike has hit Jabalia refugee camp for a second day in a row - after Israel's air force.

He offered to sell the officer thousands of ampoules of morphine sulphate and opium stolen from a Ministry of Defence consignment after the Gulf war. Five years later, aged 24, he appeared at the Old Bailey charged with the murder of Selwyn Cooney, a night club owner.During the latest trial, jurors were given 24-hour police protection and armed police were in court. Involved in the Brink's-Mat robbery in 1983 and subsequently stabbed police officer John Fordham to death.