Linda Calvey is an English murderer and armed robber, jailed for killing her lover Ronnie Cook in 1990. She was known as the "Black Widow" because all of her lovers ended up either dead or in prison.
For most of her life as an adult, Linda Calvey was always in close quarters with the wrong kind of people. She had an innate attraction to crime and the lifestyle associated with being a gangster's girlfriend, and criminals were attracted to her by her charms and looks. Her first two marriages were with hardened criminals from East End, and the affairs in between her marriages were also with notorious armed robbers. Linda, herself, eventually graduated from simply being a "criminal's girlfriend" to "criminal," and she was a natural. However, the Black Widow starts with her "humble" beginning as a gangster's moll.