I Am Not A Gangster

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He did, however, feel sorry for one death; a hostage in a routine bank heist died due to suffering a serious panic attack, where he vomited and choked on a gag.

The book was okay I would have liked to hear more about his life of crime rather than his work after his time in prison. 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.Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. Despite being described as a gangster in media, Cummines has refused the label, saying he never considered himself one, instead stating he was a "businessman whose business was crime. In his autobiography, Cummines details how he met a broad range of people, from members of the Irish Republican Army to American gangsters. Eventually Bobby was sentenced to 12 years in Britain's most notorious prisons, along with the Krays, Charlie Richardson and the Yorkshire Ripper. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. You feel all emotions when reading this book and it is a very powerful honest account of a difficult life but of someone who came through.At 16, Bobby Cummines became one of the youngest people in Britain to be convicted of carrying a sawn-off shotgun. As well as sharing in detail his criminal hey days he also spends more than a third of the book on his incarceration and how reading and learning led him to campaign and eventually set up charities to look at ways for the Criminal Justice system to stop focusing on punishment and try to focus on giving the prisoners the ways and means to live more productive non-criminal lives on their release. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. At 16, BOBBY CUMMINES became one of the youngest people in Britain to be convicted of carrying a sawn-off shotgun.