![]() ![]() ![]() Gang warfare in its current form has claimed many lives already this year, with dozens of fatal stabbings in London, many of them gang-related and involving much younger men than in the 1960s mayhem. “Let’s just leave it at that.” That facility was for a body to be wrapped in chicken wire, attached to weights and dumped in “muddy waters”. “There was a facility to go out to sea,” he says in the film. He is also reticent about his undertaking skills in disposing of McVitie, for which he was jailed for 10 years in 1969. The Krays he now describes as “bad news” – and the film makes it clear what a grim and brutal crew they were.įoreman leaving Bow Street magistrates’ court after being charged with involvement in the 1983 £6m Security Express robbery. 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. “I’m 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. Foreman is a little coy on the subject when pressed on film about all this by its director, Paul Van Carter. Marks had been involved in an attack on Foreman’s philandering brother, George, who was shot in the groin for having an affair with a local villain’s wife. In those days, the double jeopardy rule meant that you could not be tried twice for the same crime, but the law changed with the 2003 Criminal Justice Act so that “new and compelling” evidence can lead to a retrial. 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. Foreman (centre) with, to his left, Ronnie Kray and Christine Keeler, circa 1963.
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