Escape: From the Kray Madness

by Chris Lambrianou (Author), Chris Lambrianou (Author), Robin McGibbon (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.35

  This work tells the story behind one of the key figures in the Kray trial. As a young East End tearaway, Chris Lambrianou was involved in armed robbery, safe blowing, protection rackets and attempted murder. But it was his younger brother Tony's attraction to the Kray twins that threw Chris into the national spotlight and got him convicted for a murder he did not commit. One Saturday night, he was lured to a party that ended in the murder of Jack The Hat McVitie. His crime was to help dispose of the body, and by refusing to implicate the Krays, he was jailed for life in 1969. Reacting with violence to the prison regime, he tried to kill himself, before a vision changed him fundamentally and prompted him to become a Christian.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $8.02

  As a young East End tearaway, Chris Lambranou was in a class of his own. Armed robbery, safe blowing, protection rackets, even attempted murder, the big brash Cockney had done the lot. But it was his younger brother's fatal attraction to the notorious Kray twins that threw him into the national spotlight and got him convicted for his part in the murder of Jack The Hat McVitie, after he was forced to dispose of the body. But after ten despairing years in prison, Lambrianou had an amazing vision which changed his whole philosophy, prompting him to seek a new, spiritually-motivated way forward. As an ex-con, he has now devoted himself to helping other offenders make a new life for themselves.