Sunday, July 21, 2019

Real Evil: The Torture Gang

I'm reading a 60s Sexton Blake novel that has a gangster who nails his victims' knees to the floor with six inch nails.  I was reminded of Monty Python's Piranha Brothers sketch:




I figured that must have been a Kray Brothers thing, but it turns out it was their rival the Richardson Gang, also called the Torture Gang, who would also cut off toes with bolt cutters and pull teeth with pliers.  One collector caught skimming spent two days nailed to a warehouse floor while his associates would occasionally take a piss on him.

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