Dead men can't talk

People are being invited to step back in time to the 1960s to experience a new exhibition at The Galleries Of Justice Museum in Nottingham.

Dead Men Can’t Talk –– The Downfall Of The Krays is the third in a symbolic series of displays around the iconic Bow Street Dock.

The dock saw many colourful personalities as they were committed for trial at Bow Street Magistrates Court such as Oscar Wilde, Dr Crippen, Lord Haw Haw and the Kray twins.

The new exhibition is a thought-provoking display that looks at the lives of Ronnie and Reggie Kray who were kings of the 1960s underworld.

The gangland bosses’ escalating crimes of fraud, extortion, violence and murder spanned more than a decade in London’s East End.

Complex personalities who became increasingly unhinged, the twins were eventually imprisoned in 1969 for the muders of George Cornell and Jack The Hat McVitie.

The cult of the the Krays survived even their deaths in 1995 and 2000.

Through police and trial records at The National Archives and items at the Crime Museum, the exhibition explores the culture that allowed the twins to flourish and associate with celebrities, the brutal crimes that eluded kustice; and the dogged police investigation led by Nipper of the Yard.

It ends with a look at the Krays’ colourful prison lives and an evaluation of their abilities.

The exhibition is free.