gangsters in London’s East End – and nicknamed the Black Widow because every man she was involved with ended up dead.And after Linda Calvey was found guilty of killing her lover Ronnie Cook, she was sent down for 18 years and became the UK’s longest-serving female prisoner.Now a 72-year-old great-grandmother living a quiet life, Linda, who started off as a getaway driver before taking part in armed robberies, admits looking back on her former existence is “surreal”.“I look back and think, ‘Was that really me?’” she says.“It’s surreal.
It’s like looking back on the life of somebody else, because I can’t imagine how I did do the things I did.“These days, I wouldn’t even walk into a shop and pinch a sweet, but I used to rob banks and security.
Read more on dailystar.co.uk