Sitting on the couch on the seventh floor of a north London assisted living facility is one of London 's most notorious gangsters. On the television is a true crime documentary showing an FBI investigation, while on the walls of the flat are photographs and books – many featuring his contemporaries – most of whom are now dead.
Freddie Foreman, pictured, uses a 'gold' bar as a door stop in his assisted living flat in north London. The former enforcer for the Kray twins is one of the last gangsters from the 1950s left standing The promising amateur boxer of his youth looks down across the living room at the couch, a reminder of his former physique.'I wish it was real,' he chuckles.
Foreman, pictured, told MailOnline: 'I was used to death and destruction. Nothing would faze me anymore. Like when Ronnie shot Georgie Cornell... Georgie Cornell was a pal of mine, he was a nice guy' Foreman had been carrying off goods such as washing machines, dryers, and refrigerators from the front of shops while the workers were being distracted by his elder brother George.
'I was selling them out of the manor over in the East End. That was when Charlie Kray came over. I had four lock-ups at Herne Hill Station and he came over and they were all full up with electrical... Initially, life was good in the East End: 'I took over Ronnie Kray's flat. He moved out and I moved into this little block of flats in Adelina Grove. I enjoyed it over there. I still carried on what I was doing. Then of course some other work come up. More profitable things. Things I cannot mention as they don't know I was involved in. But they were good.'
'It was a straight business. I then opened up a betting shop. You had to have a conviction for street bookmaking to get a licence. I had several of them. It was the first enterprise that I had that did any good. By dumping the body in Rotherhithe, Tony Lambrianou, his brother Chris and Ronnie Bender thought they would place the Richardsons gang – who controlled south of the river – as chief suspects behind the murder. The gang was run by Eddie and his brother, Charlie Richardson. They were seeking to move into territory under the control of the Krays.
Such an action may not seem rational, but Foreman explains that during the war, he had witnessed the result of a V2 attack which hit the nurses' accommodation block of a nearby hospital.
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