James Alfred Moody was an English gangster and hitman whose career spanned more than four decades and included run-ins with Jack Spot, Billy Hill, "Mad" Frankie Fraser, the Krays, the Richardsons and the Provisional IRA.
11 Facts About Jimmy Moody
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Jimmy Moody was born to a mother who was a wartime evacuee from Camberwell, London.
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Jimmy Moody's father was killed during World War II after his ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
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Jimmy Moody was an enforcer for the Richardsons and did freelance "work" for the Krays.
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Jimmy Moody was considered by many of his peers to be "the hardest man in London".
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Jimmy Moody was convicted, along with his brother Richard, of manslaughter in 1967 for the killing of William Day, a young merchant navy steward.
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Jimmy Moody was released in 1972, but sent in 1979 on remand to Brixton Prison to await trial for armed robbery.
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Still on the run, Jimmy Moody returned to London in the late 1980s where he was now known as "Mick the Irishman".
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Jimmy Moody was shot dead on 1 June 1993 in the Royal Hotel in Hackney, East London by an unknown assailant, who was described as being in his late forties and wearing a leather bomber jacket.
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The police were unable to establish what Jimmy Moody had been doing since his return to England, nor who had arranged a council flat for him.
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Jimmy Moody's flat was only traced three weeks after his death, by which time it had been completely emptied.