Freddie Foreman

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Frederick Gerald Foreman (5 March 1932 – 10 October 2026) was an English criminal and a prominent figure in London gangland from the 1950s through to the 1980s. He was a key associate of the Kray twins. Nicknamed Brown Bread Fred ("brown bread" being Cockney rhyming slang for "dead") due to his involvement in disposing of bodies, he was alternatively styled by the press as The Guv'nor, The Mean Machine, or The Undertaker. He rejected formal gangland titles, preferring to describe himself simply as One of the Chaps. He was acquitted of murder at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) a record four times over his career. Over his lifetime, he served a total of 16 years imprisonment across 15 different prisons. Following his permanent exit from the penal system, he published his debut autobiography, Respect (1996), which instantly generated global headlines due to his written confessions to the murders of Frank "Mad Axeman" Mitchell and Tommy "Ginger" Marks. His verbal confessions during...

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