I Am Not A Gangster

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Only this time his efforts saw him go from custody of Her Majesty's Prison Service to coming face-to-face with the Queen herself.

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.I Am Not A Gangster is an explosive account of life in the criminal underworld by one of Britain's most dangerous men, but above all it's a remarkable tale of redemption with the biggest turnaround in gangland history. There is blood everywhere, people dying, shotguns firing, doorstep slayings and all-out gang warfare between Turkish, Greek and Irish firms and Chinese triads.

He was told that if he pleaded guilty to the possession charge, he would only have to pay a 10 shilling fine, whereas if he chose to proceed to a trial, he would likely be convicted and sentenced to time in a borstal. Only this time his efforts saw him go from custody of Her Majesty's Prison Service to meeting with the Queen herself. An explosive account of life in the criminal underworld by one of Britain's most dangerous men 'I am not a gangster,' I spat. 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).His autobiography, I Am Not A Gangster, was published 15 May 2014 by Random House's Ebury Press imprint. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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.

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.

At 16, Bobby Cummines became one of the youngest people in Britain to be convicted of carrying a sawn-off shotgun. In his autobiography, Cummines details how he met a broad range of people, from members of the Irish Republican Army to American gangsters. He described the moment he decided to get into crime, saying two of his friends were walking with him at a park when one accidentally set off a starting pistol. Inside, he was introduced to the Open University and on his release he soon got down to business again. Every Mother and Father from deprived backgrounds should heed the moral of this tale and tell it to their kids.