Ronald Joseph Hart born in Bethnal Green in 1942, was a distant cousin of the twins and was a key member of The Firm.
History
Hart and had been ingratiating himself into the Firm during the early 1960s. He had recently been released from prison, and like many before him, went to the twins for help on his release. Reggie later remembered that He came knocking on the door at Vallance Road one day and said, ‘Hello, I’m your cousin. I want to join your gang.’ We’d never met him before but our checks showed he seemed to be reliable – another mistake – and so we took him on. He was our cousin but he had the habit of calling us both ‘uncle’. Hart was a young man with boyish good looks who admired the twins’ way of life, and he enjoyed the sort of work that the twins could now offer him; this was probably provided more out of some family loyalty than a real desire to make Hart a valid, useful member of the Firm.
A visit to an established club, with two trusted members of the gang, in order to exert the Kray influence, must have been a very appealing prospect to the young Ronnie Hart.