I Am Not A Gangster: Fixer. Armed Robber. Hitman. Obe

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Inside, he was introduced to the Open University and on his release he soon got down to business again.

This is the gripping true story of how one man ruled his north London manor with an iron fist – and a sawn-off . There is blood everywhere, people dying, shotguns firing, doorstep slayings and all-out gang warfare between Turkish, Greek and Irish firms and Chinese triads. Bobby was sent to prison for the first time in 1967, aged 16, and over the next decade he established himself as a hardened criminal running protection rackets and robberies against a backdrop of all-out gang warfare, where doorstep slayings and bloody shoot-outs were common.

Eventually Bobby was sentenced to 12 years in Britain’s most notorious prisons, along with the Krays, Charlie Richardson and the Yorkshire Ripper. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature. Only this time his efforts saw him go from custody of Her Majesty’s Prison Service to meeting with the Queen herself.

Biography: At 16, Bobby Cummines became one of the youngest people in Britain to be convicted of carrying a sawn-off shotgun. As well as sharing in detail his criminal hey days he also spends more than a third of the book on his incarceration and how reading and learning led him to campaign and eventually set up charities to look at ways for the Criminal Justice system to stop focusing on punishment and try to focus on giving the prisoners the ways and means to live more productive non-criminal lives on their release. From a brief description of his early life to a more heavy part involving his time as a gangland boss and as a convict, it really is gripping. Only this time his efforts saw him go from custody of Her Majesty's Prison Service to coming face-to-face with the Queen herself. The latter stages of the book focuses on his reform and turning his life around, which really is quite something.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This is a shocking true story of gangland London, with one of the biggest turnarounds in crime history. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. However the edition that arrived was not the same as pictured therefore unsuitable for our collection.

I had the honour and pleasure to meet the author recently and found him to be an entertaining an interesting travelling companion, but as there are a lot of people in the world who claim to have been there , done that et cetera , I take my tall tales of the old days with a pinch of salt, perhaps he picked up on this as he recommended I read his book. At 16, BOBBY CUMMINES became one of the youngest people in Britain to be convicted of carrying a sawn-off shotgun. If you like reading books like this I would highly recommend this book Really good read, can’t put it down.This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. If you ask, he'll tell you he was simply a businessman and it just so happened his business was that of a hitman, armed robber and fixer.