Shirley claimed to have been one of the last girls taught to steal by the fearsome Alice Diamond, the six foot tall Queen of Thieves, who wore diamond rings as knuckledusters and ran the Forty Thieves gang from the 1920s to the 1940s.

The six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council «seldom make it to the top of our grassroots crypto adoption index, as it weighs countries by purchasing power parity per capita, which favours poorer nations,» Chainalysis said.

I was lost for words.

Yet there was more: she claimed Western countries such as Britain were out to tarnish Qatar. She then listed other nations that refuse to tolerate homosexuality — bizarrely naming Germany.

«In Turkey and Egypt, fluctuating cryptocurrency prices have coincided with rapid fiat (traditional) currency devaluations, strengthening the appeal of crypto for savings preservation,» Chainalysis said.

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At a time when a woman’s place was in the home, young women like Zoe refused to be constrained by society’s rules, or even the criminal codes set down by the male gangland bosses, making a name for themselves for all the wrong reasons.

«Remittance payments account for about 8% of Egypt’s GDP, and the country’s national bank has already begun a project to build a crypto-based remittance corridor between Egypt and the UAE, where many Egyptian natives work,» Chainalysis said.

Unlikely as it seems, the avowedly metrosexual Becks — who has declared his pride in being called a ‘gay icon’ — struck up a rapport with the abaya-clad Qatari spice chef and this week he returned for another PR shoot.

Unsurprisingly, Gypsy lived the high life, as her lover Billy showered her with diamonds and furs. She jetted off on holiday to the South of France and even opened a nightclub in Tangier which was frequented by the Rolling Stones.

It was a far cry from her impoverished upbringing in Ilford, Essex. 

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The gang led by Alice Diamond was unprecedented in its success and longevity but also in providing an alternative – albeit criminal – career for working class women and girls whose options were usually either to go to work in the factory or be a stay-at-home mother. 

Afghanistan, which was 20th in Chainalysis’ adoption index last year, has tumbled to the bottom of the list as Taliban authorities have «equated crypto to gambling,» which is forbidden in Islam, Chainalysis said.

This, remember, was an otherwise sophisticated teacher who shapes the thinking of young Qataris; and the mother of five children. Her nauseating and deeply confused outburst reinforced the message from human rights groups: that gay football fans should steer clear of this World Cup, despite signals emanating from the emir’s palace that, for the tournament at least, there will be a degree of tolerance.

The only problem was that Billy Hill was cheating on the fearsome Aggie with young woman he’d employed to make sandwiches in one of his gambling dens. Keeping the two women happy – and apart from each other – required more tact than stopping rival factions of warring gangs from spilling blood.

Right on cue, her boyfriend threw a rope and metal ladder over from the other side, as she had arranged, and convicted shoplifter and thief Zoe Progl became the first woman ever to escape from the grim confines of Holloway Prison, speeding away in a stolen car.

As the sister of the notorious gangster, she helped to run his Soho clubs for him when he was jailed in the 1950s for his part in a legendary razor attack on the gangland boss Jack Spot, orchestrated by Soho’s Mr Big, Billy Hill.

Eva Fraser – the sister of notorious gangster Mad Frankie Fraser – was reputedly one of the last members of the Queens of the Forty Thieves shoplifting gang, which sold stolen goods from the likes of Selfridges to poor South London housewives. 

Billy’s long-term girlfriend ‘Gypsy’, real name Phyllis Riley, acted as a getaway driver on some of his most lucrative robberies during the 1950s, including the Eastcastle Street post office van robbery, which remains unsolved to this day.

Nor are the white-robed, all-male Qatari police (the promised introduction of female officers has yet to happen) likely to risk causing an international scandal by raiding hotel rooms and fan-zones and dragging people away to be detained and beaten, as routinely happens when the eyes of the world are turned away.