Normal mobster Ronnie Kray dreamed of going to Morocco with his brother Reggie – how a long-lost tape turns up after 30 years, revealing all his hopes

Ronnie Kray dreamed of traveling the world and putting his criminal past behind him by moving to Morocco, an unearthly interview with the Notorious Mobster revealed.

Along with his twin brother Reggie, brothers of brothers used a mixture of extreme violence and intimidation to run the criminal underworld of London’s East End in the 1960s.

But the nightclub owners’ 12-year reign of terror finally came to an end in 1969 when they were arrested and charged with the murders of fellow gangsters Jack “Hat” McVitie and George Cornell.

Ronnie was eventually committed to Broadmoor Mental Hospital, while Reggie – who had driven his young wife Frances to suicide – spent most of the rest of his life behind bars.

It was during their incarceration that author and broadcaster Fred Dinenage interviewed Ronnie, who spoke candidly about his plans for the future should he ever be released.

Recorded on tape while at Broadmoor during the 90s, Ronnie found he “wouldn’t mind Morocco” as a place to live, given that buying a house in the UK would expose the brothers to their means Mirror reports

Pressed further on why Morocco would be of interest, Ronnie explained that the pair went to Tangier while on the run from the police for murder.

They stayed with fellow London gangster Billy Hill and his gypsy girlfriend and noted how much they enjoyed the warm climate of the country.

He says on a splintered tape that lingers forgotten inside a broken tape recorder in the attic: “We had a bloody great time. Red and I had great visits to North Africa in the old days and we both love the sunshine.”

Ronnie went on to detail how he would love to travel elsewhere, including to India and China, and admitted he would be “very sad” if he never got the chance to do so.

He added with a quip: “I’d also like to go to Russia, but I’d make it the last place I visited, just in case the KGB heard about Kreis.”

Ronnie and Reggie, who grew up in Bethnal Green and Haggerston in East London with older siblings Charlie and Violet, began their criminal careers with a string of violent crimes as teenagers.

By the time they were 21 years old, they were known throughout the East End as the most brutal criminals on the gangland scene.

They went on to develop a protection racket network in which they forced trendy clubs to pay weekly fees to stop them destroying livelihoods.

And to cover up their misdeeds, they donated money to charity, even buying tickets to boxing shows to help cancer victims.

As well as intimidating business owners, they opened their own clubs – most famously Esmeralda’s Shed in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge.

Kreis initially went on trial in 1965, when he was accused of demanding money with menaka (blackmail), but was acquitted.

Then they held a holiday party at the El Morocco club in the West End and even invited Leonard “Nipper”, a well-read metropolitan police detective who was investigating them.

It was Nipper who arrested both men three years later and accused them of murder.

Ronnie killed Cornell in March 1966 amid a long-running turf war with a gang led by Charles Richardson in south London.

Cornell, an active member of Richardson’s gang, had a bitter row with Ronnie over his and his brother’s desire to expand their protection racket to clubs south of the river.

Ronnie then shot Cornell while he was drinking in a blind beggar’s pub in Whitechapel.

Reggie later killed McVitie after luring him out for a drink and stabbing him repeatedly.

The brothers’ convictions were secured thanks to the testimony of several witnesses, including Carol Skinner, whose apartment was the scene of McVitie’s murder.

Both Kray twins were sentenced to life in prison, while their older brother Charlie was given ten years behind bars.

Despite their aspirations to one day leave prison, no brother would fulfill their dream of traveling the world.

Following his conviction, Ronnie, a paranoid schizophrenic, was transferred to Broadmoor in 1979 after being certified insane.

Meanwhile, Reggie spent time in prisons including Maidstone Prison in Kent and Wayland in Norfolk.

The pair were released from their prison on a day in 1982 so they could attend the funeral of their beloved mother Violet.

Ronnie died aged 61 of a heart attack in 1995 and Reggie was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2000.

He died five weeks later of bladder cancer.