confessed that an innocent victim’s death still haunts him to this day. The career criminal, now 70, was an armed robber who spent time in a maximum security jail before turning his life around.
His notoriety was established early in life - after he became Britain’s youngest armed robber at the tender age of 16. Cummines continued his dodgy exploits in the 1970s and went on to set up his own firm of hitmen, blaggers and racketeers called ‘The Chaps’.
Unsurprisingly, he eventually got banged up, where he began his redemption story. Behind bars he met fellow London gangster, Charlie Richardson, who encouraged him to be an upstanding citizen.
Cummines did just that after leaving prison by becoming an anti-crime campaigner. He was eventually appointed chief executive of UNLOCK - the National Association of Reformed Offenders.
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