It’s an approach epitomised by the late Mad Frankie’s reaction when police questioned him after a botched attempt on his life outside a London nightclub in 1991. Exactly what sparked this week’s altercation between Foreman and Richardson we’ll probably never know as no old lag wants to be seen as a grass. Two of Fraser’s grandsons became footballers, with Tommy playing for League Two side Port Vale and James enjoying a brief spell at Bristol Rovers. A Very British Gangster plays less like a documentary than an E expos of lowlife skulduggery. Foreman’s son Jamie became an actor, appearing in many feature films and 144 episodes of EastEnders as hard man Derek Branning. While many gangsters of the era found it hard to go straight, at least some of their progeny have enjoyed respectable careers. Shortly after leaving prison he took part in the Shoreditch Security Express robbery of 1983 and was sentenced to nine years for that. Freddie Foreman, who got his nickname of “Brown Bread Fred” – brown bread being Cockney rhyming slang for dead – after disposing of McVitie’s body, was put away for 10 years.
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