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George Cornell (né Myers; 13 November 1927 – 10 March 1966) was an English criminal and member of The Richardsons, who were scrap metal dealers and criminals from South London. Cornell was shot and killed by Ronnie Kray at The Blind Beggar public house in Whitechapel in the East End of London.
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Mar 14, 2014 · George Cornell had been left bleeding on the floor of the Blind Beggar. The manager of the pub, a woman called Patsy Quill, called an ambulance and it wasn’t long before the dying man was being seen by doctors across the road in the London Hospital.
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The Murder of George Cornell was an event that occurred on the night of 9 March 1966. Ronnie Kray walked into The Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel and shot George Cornell. The event has gone down in history as one of the most prolific gangland incidents in criminal history.
The pub still stands today and is a minor East End tour attraction. Cornell's death, in combination with The Murder of Jack McVitie, ultimately led to the twins conviction and imprisonment.
Ronnie Kray was renowned for never liking The Blind Beggar.
"...a big ugly building in a very poor part of London. Not the sort of place you’d want to take a lady friend for a quiet drink or a business contact to clinch a big deal. It was simply the kind of pub where the poor people in that part of London would go for a drink to drown their sorrows, to have a knees-up on Saturday nights and pretend they were feeling happy."
―Ronnie Kray, Our Story 1988
A childhood friend of the Kray twins, Cornell was a prominent criminal in east London during the 1960s. Upon moving to South London he joined up with the Kray twins' rivals, the Richardson Gang, led by brothers Charlie Richardson and Eddie Richardson.
Murder
On 9 March 1966, Cornell and his friend Albie Woods entered the Blind Beggar pub, ordered some light ales and then sat upon stools next to the bar. At around 8:30pm, both men were approached by Ronnie Kray and a Kray associate, Ian Barrie; upon seeing him, Cornell smiled and said sardonically, "Well, just look who's here". As a warning to the barmaid and the few others in the pub, Barrie fired one shot into the ceiling, while Kray walked towards Cornell, took out a 9 mm Luger, and calmly shot him in the shoulder, which bounced off the bone and into the ceiling and once in the top of the forehead, above his right eye. The men turned and departed to a waiting car on the street.
On 4 March 1969, Ronnie Kray was unanimously found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey of the murder of George Cornell. His brother Reggie was also found guilty of murdering Jack McVitie, who was killed the year after Cornell. They were both sentenced to life imprisonment.
Ronnie Kray died in jail in March 1995, while Reggie Kray was imprisoned for a total of 32 years before he was released from custody on compassionate grounds in August 2000 as a result of cancer, from which he died a few weeks after his release.
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