The Kray twins, their elder brother Charles, and six of their seven co-defendants were found guilty in the London gangland trial at the Old Bailey last night, after the longest murder hearing in British criminal history.
The jury was out for seven hours after the 39-day hearing. They found Ronald Kray guilty of two murders, and his brothers Reginald guilty of one and of being an accessory to the other. The judge, Mr Justice Melford Stevenson, postponed sentence until today. Police with walkie-talkie radios patrolled the Old Bailey and guarded entrances to Court No 1 as the defendants came, one by one, into the dock to hear the verdicts.
Only one of them, Christopher Lambrianou (29), showed emotion. As the jury convicted him of murder, he spun on his heel towards the back of the glass-screened dock. Three police officers pushed him round to face the judge, who said swiftly and almost gently: ╥You may stand down now╙.
Ronald Kray, in the rimless spectacles
he wore throughout the case, heard the verdict impassively. Most of the defendants ignored the public gallery as they descended to the cells.
