Criminal. He was half of the infamous "Kray Twins" criminal team. Born in East London, some minutes before his identical twin brother Ronald, after a regular education and National Service, most of which was spent in an Army Prison at Shepton Mallet in Somerset, the twins embarked upon a career handling stolen goods and running protection rackets on betting shops (which were, at that time, illegal), shops, cafes, and pubs. By 1960, they were heading the most feared gang north of the Thames River. Ronnie Kray had already been imprisoned and released for shooting a docker, but Reginald Kray managed to avoid arrest until February 1960, when he was sentenced to eighteen months for demanding money with menaces from a shopkeeper. Not long after his release, he fell in love with Frances Shea whom he married on April 20, 1965. The marriage was not a success ; some claim that it was never consummated; and, on June 6, 1967, Frances killed herself by taking an overdose. The previous year, Ronnie Kray had shot George Cornell and was constantly taunting his brother that the twins would be equal only when Reginald had killed somebody. In October 1967, they became equal, when Reginald Kray murdered Jack "The Hat" McVitie. On May 7th of the following year, the twins were arrested for these killings; and, on March 8, 1969, after a trial which had lasted for two months, they were given life sentences, with a recommendation that they serve not less than thirty years. Ronnie Kray was sent to Durham Gaol (and, later, transferred to Broadmoor Hospital for the Criminally Insane) and Reginald Kray was sent to Parkhurst, on the Isle of Wight. Later, he was moved to Maidstone in Kent. In August 2000, shortly after attending the funeral of his elder brother Charlie, Reginald Kray was diagnosed with terminal cancer, which had spread from his bowel to his bladder, and was granted a compassionate release, although his thirty years had, by then, been served. He died, 24 days before his 67th birthday, at the Town House Hotel in Norwich, and was buried in Chingford, East London, with his parents, his first wife, his nephew, and his brothers.