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He was working all the hours he got sent, but he couldnt make ends meet. Fraser considered that Lawton had meted out cruel and vindictive punishment to him at Pentonville in 1948, and to avenge himself Fraser assumed the role of hangman. It was just what we knew and to be honest, we loved it.. He was moved from prison to prison more than 100 times because he was virtually impossible to control. Please report any comments that break our rules. Two people were left dead. [23] In 1991, Fraser was shot in the head from close range in an apparent murder attempt outside the Turnmills Club in Clerkenwell, London. Tony Lambrianou, a one-time henchman of the rival Kray brothers, was also a fan. He chose the latter because they had taken sides on behalf of his sisters husband, Tommy Brindle, who had received a heavy beating by the Rosa brothers from the Elephant and Castle. The granddaughter of a member of the gang, who said she was taught how to steal in the 1970s, told Ms Marsh: 'My nan was always beautifully turned out. He also claimed to have been the first bandit to wear a stocking mask. There was Eva, the naughty girl of the three, who became a key figure in the all-girl gang, the Forty Thieves, who targeted the West Ends big department stores. Various members were eventually caught, though and served their time in Holloway prison, where rations were meagre and they slept on boards. Always well turned out and ineffably polite and punctual, he had a large and appreciative audience, and one woman was so impressed she named her son after him. Underneath glamorous ensembles the women wore specially-adapted petticoats with hidden pockets or baggy bloomers with elastic at the knee. His mother was of Irish and Norwegian descent, while his father was half Native-American. But Beezy said: [Kathleen] experienced the slums of Waterloo as a place buzzing with excitement and the tight-knit community, with its Catholic Church parades, which gave her the chance to shine, though she instead works at the old Hartleys jam factory in Bermondsey. Join Facebook to connect with Frankie Fraser and others you may know. She was an alcoholic and onceran out of a jeweller with a tray of 34 diamond rings and bumped straight into a policeman. It will only make me a worse villain! in development with Fraser's endorsement. I don't think they felt bad about it. Beezy reveals how the girls father would beat their mother a big influence on their outlook. 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His major stretch in prison came at the end of the Swinging Sixties, shortly before his rivals, the Krays, were jailed, but he was so badly behaved behind bars that he lost every day of remission and even had five years added to his sentence for one of the worst riots in prison history at Parkhurst in the Isle of Wight. The big question everyone has about Frank is Was he really mad? He was certified insane three times once by the Army, twice in prison and he was diagnosed as a psychopath but his family argue, and I tend to agree, that he played the system to suit himself. He then became involved in serious crime - and the war provided a perfect backdrop with the blackout, rationing and a shortage of police officers. Young Frankie attended local schools, captained the football team, and acted as bookies runner to one of the teachers. Aged seven, Ms Pitts was stealing milk and bread to provide food for her five siblings. A keen Arsenal supporter, Fraser had four sons, the first three of whom, Frank Jr, David and Patrick, followed to an extent in his footsteps. She was sentenced to five months. But his greatest moment of national notoriety came a quarter of a century earlier, during what the media billed as the Torture Trial (in fact a series of trials) in 1967 that became one of the longest in British criminal history. He built a reputation as an enforcer and strongman for various gang leaders, including Billy Hill, self-styled King of Britains Underworld in the 1940s and 1950s and, in the 1960s, the Richardson brothers. Frankie Fraser was born on Cornwall Road in Waterloo, London. Diamond's second-in-command Maggie Hughes was known as 'Babyface' for her sweet looks and made a habit of cheekily shouting back at the judge when she was sentenced to jail: 'It won't cure me! Diamond took her under her wing and showed her how to shoplift in 1947, when Pitts was just 12. During the 1950s, Fraser's main occupation was as bodyguard to well-known gangster Billy Hill. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, 'Mad' Frankie Fraser was a notorious English gangster, Funeral of South London enforcer, FRANKIE FRASER at Honour Oak Crematorium, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). At the age of five, he moved with his family to a flat on Walworth Road, Elephant and Castle. After the war, he worked for underworld boss Billy Hill, for whom he carried out razor attacks. Former Northern Echo journalist Beezy Marsh has written a book about London gangster Mad Frankie Fraser. It was a thief's paradise, Gor blimey! Francis Davidson "Frankie" Fraser, better known as "Mad" Frankie Fraser,was an English gang member and criminal who spent 42 years in prison for numerous violent offences. Over the last decade or so he was on the cabaret circuit and ran gangland tours of the East End, taking in such sights as the Blind Beggar pub, where Ronnie Kray shot dead George Cornell, one of the Richardson gang, in 1966. He was a rock.. Frankie Fraser was born on Cornwall Road in Waterloo, London on December 13, 1923. Prior to that he was a bodyguard to notorious gangland leader Billy Hill, where he took part in bank robberies and and carried out razor blade attacks - which earned him 50 a time. In 1938, she was sentenced for stabbing a policeman in the eye with a hatpin. According to Eddie Richardson, Fraser had Alzheimer's disease for the last three years of his life. They bought fur coats, jewellery and went dancing in West End nightclubs. The Krays held Eva Fraser in high regard because of her role in the gang and during the 1940s and 1950s, and the Soho gang boss Billy Hill - brother of the fiery Maggie Hughes - was careful not to encroach too much on their territory because he respected their right to earn their own money, free from male interference. Pictured, Marble Arch and Oxford Circus in the 1920s, Petite shoplifter Bertha Tappenden (right) stood just over 5ft 2in tall, but was convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man in Lambeth, after kicking down his front door and attacking him with razors and knives, to settle a score, aided by Diamond and another gang girl, Gertrude Scully (left). Born near Waterloo station, central London, he was the fifth child of a poor family. [13], It was in the early 1960s that Fraser first met Charlie and Eddie Richardson of the Richardson Gang, rivals to the Kray twins. He was also tried in court in the so-called 'Torture trial', in which members of the Richardson Gang were charged with burning, electrocuting, and whipping those found guilty of disloyalty. There were further language difficulties. This is Eva Fraser, sister of gangster " Mad" Frankie who was one of the leading lights in The Forty Thieves. But few would perhaps know about the equally incredible lives led by his three sisters. Franks mother, Margaret, was a huge influence on him but his best pal and early partner in crime was his sister, Eva. However, it was in the early 1960s that Fraser began to take on even bigger crimes, when he first met Charlie and Eddie Richardson of the Richardson Gang - rivals to the Kray twins. Before then, Fraser had been involved in smash-and-grab raids and wages snatches. He claimed to have no regrets about his criminal life, apart from being caught. . When caught by police she replied: 'I don't know anything about it.'. He was still touring clubs and pubs in 2011. The memoir KEEPING MY SISTER'S SECRETS, (Pan Macmillan 2017) tells the moving story of three sisters born into poverty in 1930s London and their fight for a survival through a decade of social upheaval. [9] He was a deserter during the Second World War, escaping from his barracks on several occasions. Whilst in Strangeways, Manchester in 1980, Fraser was 'excused boots' as he claimed he had problems with his feet because another prisoner had dropped a bucket of boiling water on them after Fraser had hit him; he was allowed to wear slippers. Fraser himself was charged with pulling out people's teeth with pliers and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The youngest of five children, he grew up in poverty in the Elephant and Castle and Borough, areas teeming with moneylenders, prostitutes and backstreet abortionists. 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AS is the case with so many crime families, the key to understanding the men came through getting to know the women who cared for them. She lived an unashamedly lavish lifestyle and splashed her money around. ", A deserter during the war he pretended to be mad to avoid the call-up Fraser was certified insane three times and spent time in Broadmoor secure hospital. Frankie Fraser was a notorious torturer and hitman for the Richardson gang of south London criminals in the 1960s. The publisher also decided to include a glossary for the reader. He refused to discuss the shooting with the police. The middle sister was Kathleen, who constantly aspired to make it as an actress, and make use of her striking good looks. Women carried tools needed for burglaries so the police had no evidence if they stopped the men following the crime. At least two home secretaries considered Fraser the most dangerous man in Britain, an image which, in old age, he only half-heartedly sought to dispel. Mothers would hide hoisted clothes in their prams and move them to pubs, where they were sold on. Then they were turned over to Fraser. Fraser spent a lot of time in solitary confinement, tormented by prison officers who would spit in his food. Many of the Forty Thieves were noted for their beauty as well as their shoplifting skills, such as Madeline Partridge and her sister Laura (pictured left), whose mother was often used by Diamond to sell stolen goods. Charles Richardson was a criminal businessman who reputedly specialised in various tortures administered at secret courts at which he presided, sometimes robed like a judge, a knife or a gun to hand. Shegot her first criminal record aged just 14 and, in 1923, she was jailed after running out of a jeweller's with a tray of 34 diamond rings straight into the arms of a policeman. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to But the victory was pyrrhic in many senses, because by the time he finally left prison the in mid 1980s, the world had changed and gangland had moved on. Fraser was the youngest of five children who were growing up in poverty - he first turned to crime at the tender age of 10, alongside his sister Eva. His gangster boss Charles Richardson remembered him as one of the most polite, mild-mannered men Ive met but he has a bad temper on him sometimes. What saved him I think was the branch; it was supple and it bent. Although Lawton survived, the dog died. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription you will not receive any updates until your subscription is confirmed. Eva (Fraser) Brindle. Fraser was released in 1988 and almost immediately served a two-year sentence for receiving. Frankie Fraser belonged to a bygone era of crime and was cut from a different cloth than so many other gangsters of his generation. So it was in January 1965, when a club owner called Benny Coulston was hauled before Richardson for swindling him out of 600 over a consignment of cigarettes. With Warren at his heels, Fraser ambushed Spot in a Paddington street, knocking him to the ground with a shillelagh. Involvement in such activities often led to his sentences being extended. Members of The Forty Thieves, whose mugshots were captured by the Police Gazette ahead of regular stays at Holloway Prison, often wore beautifully designed hats, coats and dresses in order to fit in - known as 'putting on the posh'. [26] On 21 November 2014, he fell critically ill during leg surgery at King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill[27] and was placed into an induced coma. Although he was acquitted, a further five years were added to his sentence. He had an ungovernable temper and an inability to think through the undoubted consequences of his proposed actions. Frankie Fraser was a notorious torturer and hitman, who worked as an enforcer for some of London's most feared gang leaders, including Billy Hill in the 1950s and the Richardson gang in the 1960s. Frank's mother, Margaret, was a huge influence on him but his "best pal" and early partner in crime was his sister, Eva. Borstal was followed by prison, where in 1943 he met the influential London villain Billy Hill, for whom he worked on and off for more than a decade, culminating in his slashing of Hills rival Jack Spot in 1956 after the self-styled kings of the underworld had fallen out. Alice herself was famous for clouting three furs in one go: one down each leg and one under her gusset. Photograph: Alex Segre/Rex. Frank stole because he loved to have money yet when he had it, he gave it all away. He shot, slashed, stabbed and axed.