I Am Not A Gangster

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Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Biography: At 16, Bobby Cummines became one of the youngest people in Britain to be convicted of carrying a sawn-off shotgun. This led authorities to designate him as a class "A" prisoner, causing him to be frequently moved from one prison to another. At 16, Bobby Cummines became one of the youngest people in Britain to be convicted of carrying a sawn-off shotgun.

Cummines said that with a criminal record, it was incredibly difficult to find another job, and so thought "if you're gonna make me a bad guy, I'll show you how bad I can be. Cummines began a criminal career at the age of 16, beating up those who owed associates money, but quickly moved on, becoming Britain's youngest armed robber. Cummines has criticised the system of high-security prisons, which places many brilliant criminal minds in one location and thus enables them to teach each other tricks and establish connections.He began writing poetry and got into contact with Labour MP Tony Benn who was willing to help him and contributed a foreword to his published poems, as well as changing rules so that the aim of prisons was stated to be to "rehabilitate and educate" rather than the free-for-all ethos that Cummines had experienced. He went to prison and within the first few months he had taken a governor hostage for being "unreasonable". When I realised my mistake, I contacted this seller and asked if it was possible to have a refund because the book had not yet been dispatched. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He quickly became a gangland leader and was convicted of a number of serious offences including manslaughter and bank robbery.

Ernie worked with the police to entrap Cummines, telling him he had an Uzi sub-machine gun for sale, allowing multiple armed police to ambush and arrest him. I Am Not A Gangster is a blisteringly honest account of the inner workings of the most infamous crime syndicates known and life inside Britain's most notorious jails, but above all it's a remarkable tale of redemption with the biggest turnaround in gangland history.Every Mother and Father from deprived backgrounds should heed the moral of this tale and tell it to their kids. Queen Elizabeth II awarded Cummines the OBE in June 2011 in recognition of his services to reformed offenders. Only this time his efforts saw him go from custody of Her Majesty's Prison Service to meeting with the Queen herself.

Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. Cummines claims he was taught to dehumanize anyone he killed, to think of them as vermin, [2] saying that if you did think about it then you would think of their families and guilt. I had the honour and pleasure to meet the author recently and found him to be an entertaining an interesting travelling companion, but as there are a lot of people in the world who claim to have been there , done that et cetera , I take my tall tales of the old days with a pinch of salt, perhaps he picked up on this as he recommended I read his book. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. There are a lot of books around about the various criminals and their exploits but few end on a high note, and this has a welcome note of positivity.

His autobiography, I Am Not A Gangster, was published 15 May 2014 by Random House's Ebury Press imprint. He expanded into leading a group of criminal enforcers, extortionists and racketeers known as "The Chaps", employing extreme violence in 1970s North London with his fearsome reputation and a sawn-off double-barrel shotgun named "Kennedy" after JFK.