Nipper Read
Nipper Read | |
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| Born | Leonard Ernest Read 31 March 1925 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Died | 7 April 2020 (aged 95) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Former policeman and boxing administrator |
Leonard Ernest "Nipper" Read, QPM (31 March 1925 – 7 April 2020)[1] was a British police officer and boxing administrator.[2]
Career
Read served as a petty officer in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1947. He was Detective Chief Superintendent of the Met's Murder Squad in 1967, and efforts of detectives led by him were responsible for the conviction of Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
He held various positions as a boxing administrator, most notably chairman of the British Boxing Board of Control, vice president of the World Boxing Council and vice-president of the World Boxing Association. He also published two autobiographies with ghostwriter James Morton; Nipper (1991); and Nipper Read: The Man Who Nicked the Krays (2001).
Read died on 7 April 2020, one week after his 95th birthday.[3]
In popular culture
- Read was portrayed by actor Christopher Eccleston in the 2015 film Legend.[4]
- Read was the basis for the character Harry "Snapper" Organs, portrayed by Terry Jones, in the satirical documentary on the Piranha Brothers (themselves modeled on the Kray brothers) from the first episode, second series of Monty Python's Flying Circus ("Face the Press").
References
- ^ "City detective who helped crack case - Nottingham Post". 11 July 2014. Archived from the original on 11 July 2014.
- ^ ‘READ, Leonard Ernest, (Nipper)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press 2013 ; online edn, Dec 2013 accessed 8 Aug 2014
- ^ Blair, Anthony (7 April 2020). "Leonard 'Nipper' Read dead: Police officer who brought Krays to justice dies". Daily Star. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- ^ Child, Ben (13 June 2014). "Tom Hardy plays Kray twins in Legend – first image". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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