By Jimmy Cryans
This is the real tale of Jimmy Cryans. a narrative of starting to be up in Glasgow's east finish through the fifties and sixties and the way he turned taken with a lifetime of crime. Jimmy speaks in regards to the a variety of characters he met and his dealings with a few of Britain's significant criminals. He unearths how petty robbery and shoplifting quick snowballed into armed theft with raids on banks, jewelers and defense cars. yet Jimmy's tale additionally explains his lifelong quest to discover himself and the way it will definitely resulted in overcome adversity. every now and then humorous and uplifting and at others unhappy, mainly it is a actual existence tale that may motivate.
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She was also older than me by nine months, which was a big deal at that age. Some of my pals who were there that night asked who she was, as no one had ever seen her or her pal before. When I told them she was going to be my new girlfriend they all said, ‘You’ve no chance, Jimmy-boy. ’ Christine was from Newbury but worked as an apprentice hairdresser at a salon in Thatcham and had been invited to the youth club disco by a local girl who knew her from the salon. We agreed to go out together the next day and from that moment on we spent all our free time together.
I was on the bed beside Ma in a flash and looked down into the face of my new brother. He looked just like one of the dolls I had seen some of the lassies playing with and I thought he was brilliant. There was a bond forged that day and it has lasted all our lives. We are totally different characters but just seem to fit each other perfectly. In 1959 I was almost six years old and I loved going to school. My family didn’t have a television and our time was spent playing on the streets. I had discovered football and that I had a talent for it.
I appeared in court and was granted bail thanks to a good lawyer, but I had accepted the fact that I would be going away and it kind of took the pressure off. I continued to go about my business – now that much more choosey about who I did business with. I reassured both Christine and Ma that I would be OK whatever the outcome, but there is no doubt that both of them were extremely worried. Christine assured me she would wait for as long as it took, and it is to her great credit that she stuck by me all the way.
