This father of six and his gang were amongst the most notorious and sadistic criminals in South London in the 1960s. Using scrap metal and slot machine businesses as fronts, they ran fraud, protection rackets and received stolen goods. They were best known for nailing those who displeased them to floor and then made them mop up their own blood. This process was known as “taking a shirt from Charlie,” since afterwards a clean shirt was provided for the victim to return home in. Richardson, however, maintained the torture stories were a myth. In his twilight years, Beckenham based Richardson mellowed and spent his time campaigning on behalf of young offenders.
Charlie Richardson (1934 – 2012)
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- 18 years in prison
- 1934
- 1960s
- 19th September 2012
- 20th century
- 25 years in prison
- 30th July 1966
- affray
- Alan Richardson
- Albert Longman
- Astor Club
- bath of cold water
- beaten
- Beckenham
- Bill Benny
- Billy Gardner
- Birmingham
- Blind Beggar
- blood
- Bobby Cummings
- bolt cutters
- brawl
- bruised
- brutality
- Camberwell
- campaigning on behalf of young offenders
- cash
- Category A drugs
- Catford
- Catford dog track
- children
- CID
- cigarette burns
- clean shirt
- collector of pensions
- Commander Ken Drury
- conflict
- corrupt police officers
- corruption
- crime
- criminals
- David Richardson
- day release
- dead
- death
- Devon & Cornwall
- dexys
- diamonds
- dies
- disappear
- disloyalty
- doctor struck off the Medical Register
- donation
- Dougie Flood
- drinking
- drug dealing
- drug trafficking
- drugged
- drugs
- Earls Court
- East End
- East London
- Eddie Richardson
- electric shocks
- electrical charge
- England
- escape
- extoriton
- family
- family feud
- fat poof
- fell out
- fencing
- feud
- Flying Squad
- Frankie Fraser
- fraud
- fraud schemes
- Freddie Foreman
- friends
- gambling
- gaming machines
- gang
- gang war
- gangland
- gangster
- gangsters
- genitalia
- George Cornell
- George Myers
- getaway
- grievous bodily harm
- guilt
- guilty
- half-baked fucking ponce
- hang
- hanging
- Harold Wilson
- hauled in front of Charlie
- help the handicapped
- Henry Botton
- hit man
- hit men
- Home Office
- Home Secretary
- immunity
- infamous
- Inspector Gerald MacArthur
- insults
- interview
- jail
- Jimmy Andrews
- Jimmy Humphreys
- Jimmy Moody
- Johnny Bradbury
- journalist
- kangaroo court
- Kensington
- Kent
- Krays
- Lewisham Hospital
- like Dodge City
- lines of credit
- Long Firms
- Luke Goss
- Mad Frankie
- Mad Frankie Fraser
- Majorca
- Manchester
- marijuana
- Matthew Steeples
- Metropolitan Police
- mines
- mock trial
- mop up blood
- mop up own blood using own underpants
- Mr Smith's Club
- murder
- My Manor: The Autobiography of Charlie Richardson
- nailing to the floor
- nipples
- notorious
- old Army field telephone
- Old Bailey
- Old Kent Road
- Old Vic Theatre
- open prison
- order
- pardon
- Paris
- Peter Hennessey
- phone tapping
- pinning vehicles to the floor with 6-inch nails
- plea for freedom
- police
- Police Commissioner
- Police Fund
- police officer
- police protection
- porn
- pornography
- possession of drugs
- presents
- Prime Minister
- Prison
- prison reform
- prisoner
- probation officer
- protect
- protection
- protection money
- publicans
- pubs
- punishment
- purple hearts
- Quality Street Gang
- racketerring
- raid
- raids
- released in 1984
- removing toes
- Richard Hart
- Richardson
- Richardson Gang
- Richardsons
- ripping him off
- rivals
- Robert Mark
- Ronnie Kray
- Rough Justice: The Truth about the Richardson Gang
- Roy Hall
- Roy Jenkins
- Rushey Green
- sadism
- sadistic
- Santa Claus
- scrap
- scrap metals
- sentence
- sentenced
- sentencing
- sex shop
- Shepton Mallet Prison
- shooting
- Shooting what shooting?
- shot
- shouting
- Sir John Waldron
- slot machines
- South Africa
- South African Bureau of State Security
- south-London
- Spain
- speciality
- Steven Berkoff
- stolen goods
- supergrass
- suppliers
- take you any fucking time you like
- taking a shirt from Charlie
- teeth pulled out with pliers
- territory
- The Last Word: My Life as a Gangland Boss
- The Richardson Gang
- theatre
- theft
- toes removed
- toes removed with bolt cutters
- Tommy Clark
- torture
- Torture Gang
- Torture Trial
- Tower Bridge
- trial
- trial and torture
- trot
- Tucker telephone
- turf war
- turned Queen's Evidence
- UK
- unconcious
- unconsciouness
- unpredictable
- unstable
- uppers and downers
- urinated
- usury
- Waldeck
- war
- Watney Streeters
- well look what the dog's brought in
- whipping
- Whitechapel Hospital
- Whitechapel Road
- William Richardson
- witnesses
- World Cup Final
- you tooled up Frank
- You're fucking bonkers
- You're fucking mad Frank
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