Mortimer 'wrote song with Reggie Kray'

Tony Mortimer has confirmed that he wrote a song with late East End gangster Reggie Kray.

The former East 17 songwriter was a pallbearer for Kray at his funeral in October 2000 and told STV's The Hour that the pair composed a song together before he passed away.

Mortimer said: "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."

He added: "I've got it at home, tucked away. If people wanted to hear it of course I'd let them."

Mortimer said that he had a lot in common with Kray, with both being born in the same area and the gangster having lost his brother when the pair met.

The suicide of Mortimer's own brother Ollie was the subject of East 17's first number one single 'Stay Another Day'.

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