shot rival gangster George Cornell.The horrific ordeal began on Wednesday, March 9, 1966, two days after David's 23rd birthday.David was with his brothers Alfie and Bobby when Reggie rang and insisted they went down the pub round the corner in Bethnal Green.David said: "I’d first met the twins when, six years previously, they’d muscled in and taken control of the Tudor Club, the nightspot my parents ran in Islington, keeping most of the weekly takings for themselves."Dad was too old to fight them and Mum was heartbroken.
But, like Alfie and Bobby, I was flattered by the attention these powerful men in their flash suits gave me."As a teen, David and his brother Alfie would sell jewellery and perfume out of suitcases on the street before he.
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