Blokes act like Kray brothers and journey to grave as a part of Facebook group
Grown men who dress up as the notorious Kray brothers and make pilgrammages to their grave as part of a Facebook group have been slammed.
“There’s a group on Facebook where grown men walk around pretending to be one of the Krays hahahah,” one bloke wrote on X, sharing a screenshot from the Facebook group named ‘THE KRAY BROTHERS’.
In the grab, a bloke in a full suit is seen posing with a furrowed brow outside the Victorian East End pub the Blind Beggar, infamous as site where 1960s gangster Ronnie Kray shot and killed a rival.
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The legendary criminals, Ronnie and Reggie, died in 1995 and 2000 respectively … but the Krays’ infamy lives on.
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Modelling themselves on real-life gangster Al Capone and movie mobsters, the brothers got involved in everything from protection rackets to robbery, running a gang called The Firm.
And their influence has clearly rubbed off on impressionable blokes on the Facebook page.
The public page, which has over 60,000 members, is a place where people shared old East End stories and even boast of visiting the Kray brothers’ grave.
“Been to vist for the 1st time today all the way from Newcastle,” one woman swooned with a love heart emoji.
(Image: @KonyBoxing/X)
Other posts show people posing like boxers outside the Carpenters Arms in Bethnal Green, East London, a boozer once bought by the Krays for their mother, Violet Kray.
One person, referring to the Krays as ‘the boys’ even suggested the criminals weren’t all bad because they ‘loved their mum’.
The anonymous poster said: “A lot of criticism aimed at the boys like ‘brutal murderers’ or ‘mindless thugs’ which is very short sighted.
“One thing they did have, which so called ‘gangsters’ today lack. Is respect. Were they perfect? No. But they loved their mother!! And THAT is the real test of what a man is!!!!”
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