Quality Street Gang: How Jimmy the Weed and Krays' pal Ronnie Knight became partners on the Costa Del Crime
They shared a liking for sharp suits, nightclubs and the high-life. And on Spain's 'Costa Del Crime' Jimmy 'The Weed' Donnelly and Ronnie Knight had another thing in common - they were both on the run from the law.
Wythenshawe-raised Donnelly, so called because he was small in stature but grew on people, was one of the founder members of the QSG alongside his pal Jim Swords and his brother Joe, Vinnie and Louis Schiavo, Mick Brown, Denis Crolla and boxing promoter Jack Trickett. "We all stuck together, no arguments, and could take over a whole pub on a night out. Life was good in Spain in the autumn of 1986, away from the pressures of police investigation," Donnelly wrote in his autobiography, 'Inside the Quality Street Gang'.
"Sue did a runner and left Ronnie to it...Ronnie never tried to put Northern people down," Donnelly recalled. "I would go in his restaurant, the Mumtaz in Fuengirola, and he would sit with you and have a drink." "The whole Costa Del Crime turned out," said Donnelly. "We had a great night until the countdown to midnight, when suddenly cameras started flashing.
But the fun in the sun couldn't last. After 11 years on the run Knight, who denied scarpering to Europe because of the robbery, saying 'I just woke up that morning and thought, 'I'm going',' eventually returned to Britain in 1994. He was jailed for seven years for handling proceeds of the Security Express robbery, but not the heist itself.
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