The public are still entitled to think what they like, I'm saying they maybe have/had
doubts as they might today in criminals who wind up in Broadmoor, as I do. That's all.
I'm not confusing 'rumour, gossip and popular myth with fact' - trying to find sources that aren't contradictory on the Krays is a nightmare online, and I've no books to hand at the minute. Wikipedia (never the most reliable to begin with) reckons Ronnie was declared insane twice for whatever reason, for instance. It gets even more confusing when you hear and read that 'insane' is a term that's rarely used these days...
Again, I can't find anything that goes into detail on their sentencing online, especially not that I can check elsewhere, so I don't know off-hand.
And we've had some very dodgy sh1t pulled by Home Secs. over the years, especially when it comes to criminals and/or terrorists
He almost certainly wound up going off at the deep end, he married a woman while he was effectively incarcerated (read into that what you will), but there's something else I also don't know for certain - do the courts take into account someone knowing the
difference between right and wrong and carrying out a criminal act anyway, whether they're imbalanced or not? Does a mental imbalance of whatever description increase the likelihood of violence, or is it just something the perpetrator decided they could get away with at the time? Christ, when and why does a given psychosis actually kick in?
I'm not claiming to have any answers, I'm just saying I have doubts about some of the processes, that's all
