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Post by ltd on Apr 9, 2020 9:49:20 GMT
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Post by felixdeburgh on Apr 9, 2020 10:32:36 GMT
Thanks for posting this - I was told yesterday that he’d died and meant to post it here but forgot. He led a very interesting life.
RIP.
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Post by ltd on Apr 9, 2020 10:36:25 GMT
Thanks for posting this - I was told yesterday that he’d died and meant to post it here but forgot. He led a very interesting life. RIP. I actually thought he died a few years ago. Was surprised to see his obit coming up on the newspaper websites. |
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Post by gustav on Apr 9, 2020 21:29:59 GMT
Astonishing really. As a policeman a figure from a distant era. He retired from the police as long ago as 1977 but I see he was undiagnosed as an epileptic which would have meant he never could have served in the police at all had it been recognised. A great age.
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Post by westldner on Apr 10, 2020 3:45:59 GMT
Without him, the Krays wouldn't have sought help and be aware they lives would be made great into movies we all know about, or it would have been lost forever. I'm not being sarcastic. Life just has a way of carrying on the violence on the streets and it needs to be contained and that energy placed into other mediums, such as film. RIP Leonard "Nipper" Read.
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Post by ltd on Apr 10, 2020 8:11:43 GMT
Without him, the Krays wouldn't have sought help and be aware they lives would be made great into movies we all know about, or it would have been lost forever. I'd be quite happy for their lives to have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Pair of vicious psychopathic thugs - the only value their biographies have are as some kind of warning to society at large. Still, they loved their old mum, they only hurt their own, you could leave your front door unlocked when Ronnie and Reggie owned the manor etc etc
Read is the hero of this particular story, not the two murderous goons he put away.
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Post by Portland Road on Apr 13, 2020 8:48:53 GMT
I too thought he had already died  A remarkable career, and a brave man to lead the investigation into the Krays, where he may have faced opposition from the underworld and indeed his own police colleagues. R.I.P. Leonard Reed. |
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Post by westldner on Apr 13, 2020 12:43:24 GMT
Without him, the Krays wouldn't have sought help and be aware they lives would be made great into movies we all know about, or it would have been lost forever. I'd be quite happy for their lives to have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Pair of vicious psychopathic thugs - the only value their biographies have are as some kind of warning to society at large. Still, they loved their old mum, they only hurt their own, you could leave your front door unlocked when Ronnie and Reggie owned the manor etc etc
Read is the hero of this particular story, not the two murderous goons he put away.
Agreed, considering how much the film industry as discreetly pushed him in the film Legend for the whole world to know, that is more important then the glamour the Krays put when they spotlight was on them. Looking at the IMDB on the movie Legend and how they've managed to bill Nipper as the character in the film, after the Krays and not make him like a supporting character, that tells me something:  |
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Post by ltd on Apr 13, 2020 13:23:44 GMT
I'd be quite happy for their lives to have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Pair of vicious psychopathic thugs - the only value their biographies have are as some kind of warning to society at large. Still, they loved their old mum, they only hurt their own, you could leave your front door unlocked when Ronnie and Reggie owned the manor etc etc
Read is the hero of this particular story, not the two murderous goons he put away.
Agreed, considering how much the film industry as discreetly pushed him in the film Legend for the whole world to know, that is more important then the glamour the Krays put when they spotlight was on them. Where's the glamour in spending most of your life in nick/Broadmoor? Ditto Franke Fraser, "Charles Bronson" and all the other loser scrotes. Don't get it at all. |
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Post by westldner on Apr 13, 2020 15:16:23 GMT
Agreed, considering how much the film industry as discreetly pushed him in the film Legend for the whole world to know, that is more important then the glamour the Krays put when they spotlight was on them. Where's the glamour in spending most of your life in nick/Broadmoor? Ditto Franke Fraser, "Charles Bronson" and all the other loser scrotes. Don't get it all. I mean before they were nicked, as the Krays were known to soak the glamour, yet got carried away with what they did, which got them nicked. Of course it shouldn't deattaract away from Nipper's hard work considering the Krays were known for being violent, ruthless and being feared, with Nipper taking on the effort to get them behind bars. Nipper was also said to be "too short to be a Policeman" and he went out of this way to go after the Krays, who were known for being tall and even known for beating up an army sergeant at one point of their lives, so it was almost like Nipper was being out-powered and no chance, going after and pulling away the Krays, seeing how many already feared going against the Krays in the first place. I'm sure everyone at the time knew that. That's why I'm giving a huge RIP to Read. |
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Post by logie on Apr 20, 2020 17:07:10 GMT
Indeed, RIP Nipper; I remember him from is boxing administration days - at ringside for most of the big British fights of the 90s & early noughties.
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Post by thewoodster on Jun 12, 2020 11:18:08 GMT
RIP nipper.
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