FIRST PIC OF BOSTON MOB KINGPIN WHITEY BULGER

"WHITEY"

MR AND MRS CLAUS

MAYBE life on the lam was good for him, maybe it was the California Sunshine, but in this, his first picture since he was captured he doesn't look so bad for 81. But although he appeared smiling in court yesterday, neighbors of the man they knew as Charles Gasko claimed his health had deteriorated in recent years and he suffered from Alzheimer's disease and emphysema.

According to The Boston Herald: Two weeks ago, they posted a sign on their front door that read: Please do not knock at anytime, a neighbor said.

Januss Goodwin, 61, a retired religious worker who often visited the couple in their apartment, told the paper: "I thought it was because he was so ill that if somebody knocked it might mess up his head.

"I thought they were just nice people. Obviously, I was wrong."

She added his girlfriend, former dental hygienist Catherine Greig "always looked very pretty" but added that the couple never replaced their apartment furniture.

Bulger will now return to Boston where he will face murder charges for at least 19 people and a string of other offenses.