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I regret glamorising the Kray twins, says producer of hit film

Ray Burdis looks to set record straight in new production about the notorious gangsters who terrorised 1960s London

In the hit 1990 film The Krays, the East End gangsters were portrayed as “identical twins who rose from poverty to power”, “from obscurity to fame” and “from the back streets to the attention of the world”. The Krays, which starred brothers Gary and Martin Kemp in critically acclaimed performances, was a huge box-office success, taking more than £100m globally. The new film will tell the story from the perspective of the police and ordinary people, including the barmaid of the Blind Beggar pub, who witnessed the 1966 shooting.

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