Reminiscing about the episode, Foreman, the self-described Godfather of British crime, now 87 years old, says the break in at Security Express was humane. Anyone can read what you share. At their height they mixed with politicians and celebrities but they were finally snared over the murders of fellow gangsters Jack 'The Hat' McVitie and George Cornell. A shelf is crammed with memories of his former life: a black-and-white portrait of him as a scrappy 17-year-old bare-knuckle boxer, a photograph of the Kray twins. He was charming, intelligent, loyal to his friends and as feared as he was respected., One of five sons of a taxi driver and a housewife, the violence and poverty of his childhood during the war helped form him. Despite Freddie's close bond with his mother, he felt unable to spill his greatest secret to his family, including his sister Kashmira Cooke. identical twin gangsters who stalked London in the 1950s and 1960s. Violence, he stressed, had been a sometimes necessary and unfortunate occupational hazard, but it was never an end in itself. Over Easter weekend, a group of ageing thieves stole nearly 14m in gems, gold and cash from a series of safe deposit boxes, climbing down an elevator shaft with diamond-tipped drills and busting through a concrete wall about 20in thick. Violence, he stresses, was a sometimes necessary and unfortunate occupational hazard, but it was never an end in itself. He still works out, using two purple dumbbells. She constantly bugs my wife on facebook with friend requests, but we ignore them, because she demands to see pictures of her grandson. Better throw in a few extra 'f**ks'!". In the trailer, we're told: "They used to say about him: don't mess with Fred or you're brown-bread - dead.". I can't put my finger on what they're trying to achieve.". "The worst crime a man could commit is to bring his family up in poverty.". We've been anticipating a movie about the life of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury for the last seven years -- when it looked like Borat himself, Sacha Baron Cohen, might play the . So did I feel angry, ashamed, messed up? "I felt it correct to keep this information private in order to protect the privacy of those around me," he wrote in it. Something went wrong, please try again later. "When I go to bed at night, the main thing I hope is that I wake up the next morning.". Now, Foreman lives a quiet life, sharing roast beef dinners with the other older residents in his building. But Fred: The Godfather of British Crime isn't a film talking posthumously about his crimes; it comes straight from the horse's mouth, as half a century after his alleged crimes, the ex-gangster is eager to talk us through what went down. Mr. Foremans apartment is cramped, but he doesnt need much room after more than a decade of living in a prison cell, my every movement watched by screws, he said, referring to prison guards. That refrain is of course no justification for the casual violence that, in time, went along with his shady dealings. "My wife was saying 'It's not too bad, Fred, you can do 10 years, youre not doing life.' Obviously I needed a bit of cash, so I went for it. Nothing was my idea I was manipulated right, left and centre, he says cheerfully, adding that he is happy with the end result and then, diplomatically: I just hope it encourages kids to get a good education.. The Kray twins' most feared enforcer Freddie Foreman reveals the biggest regret of his life He put three kids through boarding school, lived in a mansion and travelled all over the world - all. Foreman may have got away with that one, but Maureen became a prison widow once more when Foreman was sentenced to nine years for his part in the 1983 Shoreditch Security Express robbery, that saw almost 6m stolen from the company's headquarters. If that sounds bad, so be it. But I dont want to glamourise what I did because its not fucking glamorous, is it? He said it was a perilous but glamorous world; Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland visited the brothers nightclubs in the West End of the capital. LONDON It was Easter Monday, and five thieves three wearing balaclavas, two in monkey masks and all of them armed and speaking with fake Irish accents had broken into a security company in East London. "We always consulted her in our work that continued after we lost Freddie - the tribute concert at Wembley Stadium; the Made In Heaven album, which encapsulated Freddies last gifts of vocals and was a two-year labour of love for us; the single No-one But You, our tribute to Freddie, which I wrote at the inauguration of the Freddie statue in Montreux, an occasion we shared with Jer. I'm going to die.'". Handsome and strong, he says he apprenticed with a band of female thieves, who stuffed their bloomers with stolen mink furs, jewellery and clothing. "Reggie would sit on the fence and he would go either way. I would stand by my dad no matter what. However, his father Bomi Bulsara struggled with his son's profession and they frequently clashed - causing ongoing tension between the pair which drove them apart. "It's probably true to say that Freddie's father, strongly committed to the Parsee faith, didn't find it easy that Freddie took the path he did, as a rock musician, and a fairly irreverent one, at that," he wrote. 5. He was acquitted of the killing because of a lack of evidence, including the body, which Foreman says was dumped in the English Channel. We gave the guards tea, and no one went to the hospital, and I am proud of that, said Mr. Foreman, a stocky man whose grandfatherly demeanor is hard to square with his former incarnation as a freelance enforcer for the Krays, the notorious identical twin gangsters who stalked London in the 1950s and 60s. There. Fred: The Godfather of British Crime is written and directed by Paul Van Carter (The Guv'nor) and is available to watch on Netflix. Frederick Gerald Foreman was born at 22 Sheepcote Lane, Battersea on 5 March 1932, the son of Herbert Albert Foreman. When I was 18 and my mother discovered my revolver in my bedroom closet, he added, she knew what kind of boy I was. Whatever his misgivings, the trio became friends. Suddenly I had the whole picture. I was too old to fancy going to work, but it wouldve been one last roll of the dice, he says. More than 40% of study participants had experienced family estrangement at some point. The visit is research for my book The Last Job, which tells the story of the Hatton Garden heist, an audacious 2015 burglary in Londons diamond district. In this special documentary, Foreman reveals the audacious details of the heists, double crossings . When he finally met them at the family home in Bethnal Green he found them "punching and fighting" in the backyard. I am not a monster. He eventually separated from Maureen, who died several years ago. Dads exploits let us enjoy the finer things of Swinging 60s London. She loved the fact that Freddies spirit lived on so strongly in the work we were doing, and that Freddie was always a physical part of our live shows. His real entry into the underbelly of London crime came in the 1960s when he was recruited by the Kray brothers, under whose tutelage he earned another of his nicknames: the Undertaker. I was at the Old Bailey at 16 years of age for affray. ", Netflix says: "This is a sombre examination into the psyche of former London gangster Freddie Foreman: 85 years old, allegedly responsible for multiple murders, and nearing the end of his life. Old villains dont die these days, they end up as books or films. He wishes he could spend more time with his eight grandchildren. But, he said, Jer never showed any sign of being rattled by her son's mischievous ways. His main motivation for crime, he says, was that he had a wife, Maureen, and three children to support. Did I hate my father for the things hed done? I was wrong to blame them for dads actions no one made him do it. I lived in a four bedroom villa, he said, between Marbella and Puerto Bans.. I never really trusted him.". How do the two worlds compare? F****** hell! It was a surreal, terrible dream. I dont know. "We had a good life - the best education, best clothes, cars and holidays abroad. Once everything was explained I can honestly say I had no conscience to wrestle with. He got 10 years. As a member of the Kray twins ' gang, The Firm, he has been linked to countless murders and served a total of 16 years in prison. I tell Foreman that Im hoping he can shed some light on what would possess a group of geriatric criminals to come out of retirement. At the time, he was 82. Dressed in a gray jogging suit, he poured two large glasses of wine. You dont prove youre a hard man by stabbing someone. Blew his ear off, he says of one of the miscreants. But in 1972 Evans was charged with murder and to save his own skin he grassed. With Freddie Foreman, Bernard O'Mahoney, Walter Norval, Maureen Flanagan. "He didn't want to upset us. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. He was just my dad. Queen frontman Freddie Mercury died on November 24 1991, just 24 hours after telling the world he had Aids - but the icon never came out to his family. Maybe theyve got no respect for anybody anymore.". Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Maureen Foreman Origin Southwark Status Alive Frederick Gerald Foreman (born 5 March 1932) is a convicted English criminal involved in the disposal of the body of Jack "the Hat" McVitie (killed by Reggie Kray) and for which he was sentenced to ten years in prison. Foreman was one of the most feared gangsters in 1960s London, his brutal reputation earning him the nickname "brown bread" - or dead, in Cockney rhyming slang. Old friends recently came by to celebrate his 87th birthday, but most former members of what he calls his firm are dead. He said that the gang had tried to recruit him and he regretted that he hadnt gone. "If you want it bad enough, youve got to go and get it.. But I could NEVER be angry with my hero. Former gangster Freddie Foreman was a Krays associate and ruthless criminal, feared and revered by his contemporaries and infamous . If I had, my life couldve turned out differently.. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. He said that he had tried to go clean by working in a meat market but that he had hungered for easy money. By the 1950s, he said, he had graduated to stealing washing machines and televisions. Then I had to break the news to her that they'd just charged me with Franks murder.". There was sun and sangria and birds. On another occasion, when his philandering older brother George was shot in the groin by the irate husband of one of Georges girlfriends, Foreman says he set out for revenge but mistakenly killed someone else. But what is stated clearly and concisely in the film is fact: Freddie Mercury and his family identified as Indian Parsi. There was a facility to go out to sea, he says in the film. To me, it was just the world I was born into. Foreman is married to Maureen Foreman. On another occasion, when his philandering older brother George was shot in the groin by the irate husband of one of Georges girlfriends, Mr. Foreman said he had set out for revenge but had killed someone else by mistake. Old friends recently came by to celebrate his 87th birthday, but most former members of what he calls his firm are dead. The enterprise was run with the help of Buster Edwards and Tommy Wisbey, who would later go on to be involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Soon, Foreman was ruling over a swath of south London and owned pubs, betting shops and a nightclub called Hamilton House. I lost everything. Two died there last week. "The worst crime a man can commit is bringing up his family in poverty so I don't regret any of my actions. It was something that caused a great deal of pain for Jer, who opened up about her sadness in a rare 2006 interview. Sympathy card: Another simple favor is a card. Love celebrity gossip? The word estrangement was never in my vocabulary before it happened to me seven years ago. But my dad took things that didnt belong to him every day. The film comes just a couple of years after the publication of The Last Real Gangster, the eighth book to which Fred Foreman has attached his name. His mum Jer Bulsara was fiercely protective of her boy, as depicted in the 2018 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, in which Rami Malek played the flamboyant and thoughtful Freddie. For others, the end of an unhappy and complicated relationship just comes as a. past this time round has proved more troublesome than he anticipated. By the 1950s, he says, he had graduated to stealing washing machines and televisions. Money, said Mr. Foreman, a born raconteur who speaks in long paragraphs peppered with Cockney slang. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. The Krays he now describes as bad news and the film makes it clear what a grim and brutal crew they were. It was Easter Monday, and five thieves three wearing balaclavas, two in monkey masks and all of them armed and speaking with fake Irish accents had broken into a security company in east London. With strained family relations and declining health, Freddie finally felt it was time to tell all and revisits his old London haunts. She would, say, Fred Foreman, youre going to end up hanging from a noose., His real entry into the underbelly of London crime came in the 1960s when he was recruited by the Kray brothers, under whose tutelage he earned another of his nicknames: the Undertaker. What did he think of the film? Foreman was never convicted of the Security Express robbery, but he was sentenced to nine years for handling stolen property. Fast-forward to 2021 when both Aaron and Jordan were set to walk down the aisle and still estranged. I was ecstatic. "Up until meeting those two I had no problems whatsoever.". He was tapped for the Security Express job, he says, and he wanted, Hatton Garden heist: The target, the plan, the job, the investigation. Mr. Foremans journey from Brown Bread Fred, (brown bread is Cockney rhyming slang for dead), to retired pensioner has been variously marked by hardship, opulence, menace and a canny instinct for survival. Now he lives in a retirement home: alone, estranged from his family, with only the memories of his former crimes to look back on. On the day of his sentencing for his role in McVities death he was also charged with another murder, that of fellow Kray henchman Frank Mitchell, another career criminal who the Krays had helped to escape from Dartmoor prison only to have him killed months later in the back of a van in which Foreman was present. I was sent to boarding school for my betterment. "I tried the straight way I worked in scaffolding firms and on the markets," he says now. My uncle owned a drinking club with Ronnie Knight who was married to Barbara Windsor. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. My dad was one of Londons most successful gangsters involved in Britains most audacious armed robberies with the most dangerous criminals. Fred adds: "It was only business - my wife didn't know anything about what I was doing. And like many parents, I was ashamed and reluctant to talk about it (68% of those who are estranged from . But ask him what he thinks of himself today and his reply is"caring and loving". She would say, Fred Foreman, youre going to end up hanging from a noose. . The underworld metes out its own justice, and it was up to dad to make sure the job got done. I also doubt that Cuddy could have had that much influence. Theyve got relatives and I dont want to keep rubbing it in. His ability to mete out rough justice - and his shrewd business brain - brought him to the attention of the Krays. His real entry into the underbelly of London crime came in the 1960s when he was recruited by the Kray brothers, under whose tutelage he earned another of his nicknames: the Undertaker. When an associate of the Krays, Frank (the Mad Axeman) Mitchell, became a liability after the brothers helped spring him from prison in 1966, he was lured into a van and shot. Over Easter weekend, a group of aging thieves stole nearly $20 million in gems, gold and cash from a series of safe deposit boxes, climbing down an elevator shaft with diamond-tipped drills and busting through a concrete wall about 20 inches thick. Evans and his accomplice, Marks, were set to rob a jewellers. And he'd have the odd bit of coke or a pill at a party. For a large part of the 1960s, Foreman and the Kray twins' gang The Firm, ruled the streets in the East End of London. Now 86, Foreman was acquitted of two 1960s murders, those of Tommy Ginger Marks and Frank the Mad Axeman Mitchell, both of which he later admitted in his autobiography, Respect, when it was published in 1997. The robberys ringleader was Terry Perkins who died, aged 69, earlier this year in Belmarsh jail, having been convicted of the 2015 14m Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary. I've got seven grandsons and two granddaughters, Ive got great-granddaughters and I hope they never fall foul of the law.". All told, he spent 16 years in jail for various crimes, an experience he called a living hell., Now, Mr. Foreman lives a quiet life, sharing roast beef dinners with the other older residents in his building. As Ginger turned, dad emptied his .38 revolver. He recalled that he tried to punch and kick his way out of the police car as it sped by the beach on the way to the airport and that he was drugged like an animal before eight police officers bundled him onto a plane. Foreman was arrested years later for handling the proceeds of the robbery after he had moved to the Costa del Crime in Spain, bought property and opened his club. But back in the 1960s,Foreman was known as the Godfather of London, a ruthless criminal who was a key figure in the Krays' gang, The Firm . Much to his indignation, as there was then no extradition treaty between Spain and the UK, he was hoisted back to England still in his shorts and flip-flops. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? His story is a fascinating, yet chilling account of life as a freelance enforcer for the Kray twins, and as London's most feared gangster. Fred is the only gangster who lived through the turbulent history of the British underworld and survived to tell the tale. FORMER Kray twins hitman Freddie Foreman has called for hero pensioner Richard Osborn-Brooks to be handed an award for bravery. There is no greater dishonour than not being able to support your family, he says. Marks had been involved in an attack on Foremans philandering brother, George, who was shot in the groin for having an affair with a local villains wife. ", Brian added: "She was with us all the way. "Nevertheless, the support was always there. "Its opening old sores and old wounds," he says. One of five sons of a taxi driver and a housewife, the violence and poverty of his childhood during the war helped form him. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. And Freddie's wife Maureen died three years ago, although the couple had separated by then. Dads absence left a void inside me, but in 1975 I heard he was going to be released. There was no way I was going to write my own dad off as an evil man. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. "We gradually became aware he had an illness but we had no idea what it was or how serious it was. I remember being blown out of my bed by an explosion and seeing childrens bodies on the streets, he said. Dad suggested asking Ronnie if Barbara could help. Reminiscing about the episode, Mr. Foreman, the self-described Godfather of British crime, now 87 years old, said that the break-in at Security Express had been humane. He wishes he could spend more time with his eight grandchildren. But nobody will help you in this business. ", Jer added: "He was so ill and still he was being so caring.". A heavyweight villain with an unbelievably bloody past, Freddie is the last living legend of the Krays' London underworld. "And that applied to all of us - you don't steal off your own. and that he was drugged like an animal before eight police officers bundled him onto a plane. This English biographical article related to crime is a stub. I was too old to fancy going to work, but it wouldve been, Foremans home is cramped, but he doesnt need much room after more than a decade of living in a prison cell, my every movement watched by screws, he says. FREDDIE Foreman was one of the most feared gangsters in 1960s London, his brutal reputation earning him the nickname "brown bread" - or dead, in Cockney rhyming slang. His main motivation for crime, he said, was that he had a wife,. He was the key witness in the trial of my dad and three members of his firm. They didnt dare. He is equally tightlipped about Mitchell, whom the Krays had helped escape from Dartmoor prison and hidden in London, but who had become a loose cannon; according to Foreman today, Mitchell had been armed and vowed to take six policemen with him rather than return to jail. Dad was found not guilty of murder but guilty of the second charge. "We talked to her about the remastering of tracks, the appearance we made at the Bejart Ballet with Elton singing, which was also John's last live appearance with us, and later the work with did with Paul Rodgers, and latterly with Adam Lambert. Actors and actresses especially Barbara Windsor and the Carry On team mixed freely with High Court judges and politicians. Money, says Foreman, a born raconteur who speaks in long paragraphs peppered with Cockney slang. I was brought up to be a straight goer, live honestly and never take anything that didnt belong to me. At the time, he was 82. He also reveals a secret: he nearly went on the Hatton Garden job himself. Not guilty. I dont want to glorify anything Freddie Foreman. Foreman and wife Maureen had a lifestyle that was streets away from his childhood, living in a five-bedroom house and enjoying luxury holidays. Reggie killed McVitie in a dispute over money, and Foreman, while initially charged with murder, was ultimately convicted for his part in disposing of the body and sentenced to ten years. He said of his Glasgow. the 6m Security Express robbery in Shoreditch. Brown Bread is cockney rhyming slang for "dead". The final conversation between mother and son took place by Freddie's deathbed in his west London home, which he had bought for his Mary Austin, who he had treated as his platonic 'wife' since the end of their romantic relationship in 1976. Freddie tells us how Jack was a loo. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. The criminals sped away with 6 million pounds, about $9 million at the time of the heist in 1983 the largest cash robbery of the era. Once He Was the Godfather of British Crime. Now Hes Just a Grandfather. Half a century after Jack The Hat McVitie was murdered by Reggie Kray, the man who had the job of disposing of his body is the subject of Fred: the Godfather of British Crime, a new documentary. Foreman has outlived all his criminal contemporaries: Ronnie Kray was 61 when he died of a heart attack at Broadmoor Hospital in 1995. He was tapped for the Security Express job, he said, and he wanted a piece of the action. "However, the time has now come for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth, and I hope everyone will join with me, my doctors and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease," Freddie added. Handsome and strong, he said he apprenticed with a band of female thieves, who stuffed their bloomers their underwear with stolen mink furs, jewelry and clothing. Pop stars such as Cat Stevens and Manfred Mann were regulars, along with Bobby Moore and other West Ham, Spurs, Millwall and Chelsea footballers. Born in 1932, the son of a respectable taxi driver and the youngest of five brothers, the elder of whom served in the second world war, Foreman was initially evacuated but returned during the blitz and witnessed some of its effects, which, he says, still give him nightmares. Family estrangement has been defined as distancing and loss of affection that occurs over years or even . Nowadays, it's all so open, isn't it?" Was it his idea? In addition to the athlete never publicly commenting on Jordan's relationship with Fletcher,. One of the weapons produced in evidence was a sand-weighted sock. He laughs at the memory. Freddie is now 86 years old and he is one of last surviving old-school London gangsters. Half a century after Jack The Hat McVitie was murdered by Reggie Kray, the man who had the job of disposing of his body is the subject of Fred: the Godfather of British Crime, a new documentary. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Reggie was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2000 after he was diagnosed with cancer, and died in Freddies arms in October the same year. Some might question whether that was quite the theme tune of his life of professional crime. ", Still, apart from meeting the Krays, he says he has no regrets about his past. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. He has even chosen the music for his funeral, he says, a 1930s song called Live and Let Live. All told, he spent 16 years in prison for various crimes, an experience he called a living hell. We lived above the pub he ran in South East London. The criminals sped away with 6m at the time of the heist in 1983 the largest cash robbery of the era. Former London gangster Freddie Foreman is nearing the end of his life. "I'd like to set the record straight on a lot of things. He put three kids through boarding school, lived in a mansion and travelled all over the world - all off the back of his criminal activities. He was acquitted of the killing because of a lack of evidence, including the body, which Mr. Foreman later said had been dumped in the English Channel. Or two someones the Kray twins. They liked me, they were nice birds, and I became their protector, he says. I think its terrible whats going on, he says. "Maybe youve touched on something there - if anyone broke into anyone's house they were found out and severely battered and they didn't do it again," he says. If I had, my life couldve turned out differently.. A . Firm member Freddie - now 86 - hasbeen linked to countless murders and bouts of violence, and served a total of 16 years in prison for his underworld activities. Is Netflix show Kaleidoscope based on a true story. He still works out, using two purple dumbbells. I loved films and TV plays and at 15 I decided to become an actor. She is a drug addict and a all round horrible person, and I have completely cut her out of my life. Rather than glamorizing Foreman's life of crime, Fred is billed as a somber and intimate look at the notorious villain towards the end of his life. Freddie Mercury left a legacy when he passed away in November 1991 at the young age of 45 - however the music icon also took many of his secrets to the grave. Im not happy about this, Paul, he says at one stage as he revisits the scene in Bethnal Green where Marks was shot dead in 1965 and is asked to describe what happened. But the lure of crime cut short his American dream. 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