Freddie Foreman
English mobster
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| Intro | English mobster | ||
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain England | ||
| is | Mobster | ||
| Work field | Crime | ||
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| Birth | 1 January 1932 | ||
| Age | 93 years | ||
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Frederick Gerald Foreman (born 5 March 1932 in Battersea, London) 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. He was nicknamed "Brown Bread Fred".
Foreman was involved in the Shoreditch Security Express robbery of 1983, which at the time was the largest cash robbery in the UK. For his part in it he received nine years in prison.
Foreman also confessed to the murders of Frank "Mad Axeman" Mitchell, and of Tommy "Ginger" Marks in the 1960s in revenge for the shooting of his brother (shot in the legs). He had been acquitted of the murders at an Old Bailey trial in the 1960s. He additionally claimed to have intimidated witnesses to the killing of George Cornell in the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel by Ronnie Kray and to having been a hitman for the Kray twins.
He is the father of actor Jamie Foreman Gregory Foreman and Danielle Foreman