East End Gangster Who's a Godsend to Kids in Need
The Citizen Gloucestershire › February 24, 2008
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Hardman John Carter would drink heavily, socialise with gangsters and inevitably end up in a booze-fuelled brawl.
As a youth the East London lad - known as Pentonville Johnny - was on speaking terms with the Kray twins, spent over seven years in prison and even killed a woman in a drunken accident.See the full content of this document
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East End Gangster Who's a Godsend to Kids in Need
"I drank to get drunk," he said. "I would drink anything I could get my hands on."
Now aged 70, and living with his second wife in Sharpness, near Dursley, his life has been remarkably turned arou...See the full content of this document
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