SHANE Richie enjoyed a close friendship with the late Reggie Kray and would regularly visit him in prison, The Sun can reveal.
And the legendary-London gangster - who controlled London's gangland scene for two decades alongside brother Ron - once even stepped in to BURN down an office belonging to a man who owed Richie £8,000.
The Alfie Moon actor said the shocking incident unfolded after Reggie asked him if there was anything he could do for him during a visit at Maidstone Prison in the mid 1990s. “I said to him: ‘Funnily enough there is Reg.’ "I’d done some gigs at Butlins years earlier for an agent who never paid me.
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