Former East 17-er Tony Mortimer has revealed that he wrote a song with East End gangster Reggie Kray before his death in 2000. The pair became friends prior to Kray's death and Mortimer was a pallbearer at his funeral.
Mortimer told STV: "He wrote a poem called 'Falling Rain' and I changed some of the words around and put some music to that. It's a ballad, it's really good. I've never released that, I've got it at home and I've got a copy of it with a Scottish singer called Jinky Gilmore, who's sung it as well. He's done a fantastic vocal on it. I've got it at home, tucked away. If people wanted to hear it of course I'd let them".