Cronies will insist, particularly now he is dead, that he wasn't really so bad. 'A rogue, but a very lovable one,' was the response of one misguided apologist as news of the death at 89 of Ronnie Knight, gangland figure and ex-husband of actress Barbara Windsor, emerged yesterday. Best gay porn download here



This was the image Knight loved to play up to. 'I only ever robbed the rich and I never hurt anyone,' he liked to say. But in a rare moment of introspection he admitted he was no heroic outlaw. 'Oh no, I wasn't Robin Hood — I was a robbing b*****d,' he smirked.



Indeed, this dapper playboy rubbed shoulders with some of London's nastiest, most violent gangsters including the sadistic Kray twins. His own criminality included handling the proceeds of the £6 million Security Express robbery in which a guard was threatened with being burned alive unless he handed over the keys to the vault. And then there was his admission that he once 'got away with murder' after being cleared of a brutal gangland slaying only to later gloat that he paid a contract killer to carry out the 'hit'.