The Krays' criminal exercises stayed holed up behind their big name status and "real" organizations. In October 1967, four months after the suicide of his better half Frances, Reggie was supposedly urged by his sibling to kill Jack "the Hat" McVitie, a minor individual from the Kray group who had neglected to satisfy a £1,000 contract paid to him ahead of time to kill Leslie Payne. McVitie was tricked to a storm cellar level in Evering Road, Stoke Newington, on the affectation of a gathering. After entering, he saw Ronnie Kray situated in the receiving area. As Ronnie drew closer him he let free a blast of verbal mishandle and cut him underneath his eye with a bit of broken glass. It is trusted that a contention then broke out between the twins
