Mad Frankie Fraser: The Gangster Thug Who Protected The Krays | British Gangsters | Absolute Crime 

How could he be a member of both Krays and the Richardsons? I know he didn’t go to WW2 but he was burglar while the real men went to fight. Fraser was 5 ft 2 and is known as a coward without weapons and his victim needed to be tied up as well.

Life's bottom-feeders, the lot of them.

The most dangerous men in Britain have never once been the likes of Fraser, but have always been those who are untouchable...such as those in Westminster or very high up in financial power and that has never changed.

Thing I can't understand about frasers reputation is how does torturing someone who is tied up make u a hard man ?

Fraser wasn't a stand up fighter in fact without a weapon he was a coward.

Anyone who knows anything about British gangster history knows Frank was part of the Richardson crew who were rivals to the kray firm.

Frankie was NOT an enforcer for the Krays, he was with The Richardsons!!

What a sad and wasted life.

Great documentary bernard 👏

Done more bread and water than any man alive... Asif it's summat to be proud of 😂

Fraser was a wardodger who ponced off the women who’s husbands went to war. Nice! Also he had little relationship with the Krays until they went to prison. Then he made money off their name with tours etc. Foreman however, was the real deal and had respect from everyone. And he knew the Krays well. This should be called Freddie Foreman:The gangster who protected the Krays.

Footage like this deserves Government funding for its valuable contribution to the preservation of an unalienable part of British History.

Well done frankie spending nearly all you life in a prison surrounded by men bet you were getting really excited

A man who used weapons and friends. Not a hardman, a bully who didn’t fancy a straightener

My wife’s sisters uncles sons dogs 3rd cousin 9 times removed knew Frankie and said he was a gentlemen and knew him so well , Frankie’s youngest sisters pet budgie confirmed this 👍

I met Frankie when I was living in Calahonda Spain in the 90s. My wife had her handbag snatched in a supermarket carpark, a bunch of Morrocon kids, my wife was in tears and he approached us at our car and asked what was wrong, he told us not to call the police and he would deal with it, he asked for our address. Two hours later a tall Spanish fella turned up at out villa with the handbag, the man asked if anything was missing, it was all there. I remember the guy had bloody knuckles. I didnt know it was Frankie Fraser untill a few years later when i saw him on the news.

Howling at the title. “ WHO PROTECTED THE KRAYS “

Fraser spoke about robbing dead people in bombed out houses during the war in a previous interview

If I didn’t know who Freddie Foreman was, I would guess him to to be an ordinary and very likeable man. Richardson, Donahue and Fraser have an air of menace about them, even in old age. But Foreman comes across as calm and reasonable. An easy man to underestimate.

FF was a small man who had an extremely high tolerance of pain, and he showed no mercy at times in inflicting a lot of pain and suffering, yes torture, on others. Insanity helped these gangsters "cope " with their iniquities. They could turn on the charm, and show immense generosity, which made them particularly dangerous.

Even billy hill thought Frankie was a melt

Went on one of his tours. Culminating in a beer in Blind Beggar. What struck me was how tiny the man was!

Was watching Older british crime show last night and they were talking about Krays.

Frank was bitter, because deep down he resented the fact that he failed his " Dentistry exam".

my late grandad was a met police sergeant and he often knicked Fraser from the 1930's to the 1960's. He said Fraser was a grass who would out any crims to further his own interests and once he started to talk you couldnt stop him .Grandad said you never turned your back on Fraser whatsoever . He also knew Foreman from when he worked for Brendan Quirke lawyer .he said Foreman was an old school criminal who would never grass anyone and adhered to the code of silence. I live the square life but I will say this when you here Foreman speak you cant help but kind of like the man. I also like his son Jamie Foreman the actor as well . another name that was mentioned was that of a man called Alf Lawson who was a colleague of my grandad's . He said Lawson was an eastender who joined the Met and knew how to handle the Krays physically and that east end crims like the Krays didnt phase him one bit. My nan always said Lawson was a vicious man indeed . I love these documentaries of old school London crims

You mean the Richardson not the krays

It is a shame that these people couldn't change the life for the poorest of people in London and put their efforts in speaking up and changing things for the poorest of people for which I believe that was their background as children,, not being born at that time myself it's hard to know what life may have been like but I wondered what these people would think about life today of the homeless and people begging on the streets all over London and every other town and city in England it seems that England is clearly going backwards to the victorian days there's no doubt that the poor are clearly suffering in England.... I did not watch all of the RU-vid film because the criminal way of life is of no interest to me

Fraser and his sons spent 70 years behind bars?..One big happy Family!

Mcvities body was left outside st Mary's Church near Rotherhithe tunnel in the same Borough (Southwark)as Fred's pub but about two miles away hardly "round the corner"from it nevertheless it could still have caused problems for Fred and every known villain in South London

12:12 A very telling reaction to a perfectly innocuous sound.

He's such a hero...my pet slug has just died and I'm and I'm gutted....ffs, how can anyone think these bullies and criminals are worth viewing is beyond me.

Yeah, really tough when the other persons outnumbered 5 to one

He likes to be called slightly annoyed Frankie Fraser now.

Openly outed as a total prick by other peers of his time . A Bully who described the end of ww2 as devastating

Foreman was above the lot

I went on one of his tours around London. He was an utter gentleman to me

Mad Frankie was 5ft2", no wonder he was mad 😂.

He was hard when you were tied to a chair.

25:20 Jimmy Tippetts sounds like onetime Dr Feelgood's manic guitarist Wilko Johnson!

20:52 This guy sounds like Harry Enfield or Paul Whitehouse when they did The Old Gits in Harry Enfield and chums.

The worst thing foreman did was disclose he was a "magician", to the krays. Vanishing people, I mran.

Frank Fraser worked with the Richardson gang.

Frankie was nothing to do with the kray firm he was an associate of the Richardsons firm

This is WRONG !! Frankie was an an acquaintance of my Dad. HE wasn't anything to do with the KRAYs. Please change your Title. He was with the Richardsons in South London, not the KRAYs in the East End! FF used to drink in dad's pub, years ago when he was out and about. Dad and I had a brekkie with him years ago when we bumped into him shopping. He changed residential homes in Peckham and Bermondsey ... as did my Dad we bumped into him again 😢. We also knew the Richardsons, Charlie more than Eddie, having drinks with him when he was around also and when he wasn't supposed be around 😂 !! Rip Frankie, Charlie, Dad !! As for the glib person ! Ok 😂

Protected the Krays from whom? The Richardsons?

Sounds like we need a doco on Ronnie & Reggie’s father? Mum sounds great by all accounts & im not blaming him but would love to know his story?

How many times you gonna post the same documentary with a different name on it 🤔

Used to see Frankie in the mid 90s, drinking in the Duke of York, Islington, usually surrounded by a group of wannabe youngsters, hanging on his every word.

He was as mad as a lorry!

He couldn’t fight a cold with his fists,always needed a tool.

Have any of you guys ever heard of "The Cobblestone Fighter", (aka Georgie SEWELL) Actor George SEWELL'S Father. Now there was a real "hard man". Never carried a weapon but was as tough as they come. Another "hard man" from an earlier time, was Jack (SPOT) COMER.

A coward who only acted tough when he was with a mob. 5 foot nothing.

I worked with a fella who was in prison with fraser...he said he was a complete dick!

Mad as a lorry.

Back in the day , you tell frankie he weren't hard he'd cut your jacobs off and av em for tea lol

I met Frankie Fraser at a customers shindig in my home town. I plonked myself down on a sofa next to this old guy he introduced himself as Frank and we spent half an hour chatting and laughing. After making my excuses to leave the party my colleague said to me “ I see you were getting on well with Mad Frankie Fraser” I was stunned, I never knew it was him. I must add that he was a really nice guy and a pleasure to chat to, I suppose everyone has a nice side to them, sometimes!

Me and Ron, Ron Pickering run the gaff now. No iron hoofs

I wish it was like this now...i really do

He was not a protector of the Krays, he was in the rival Richardson gang.

I knew him in his later years,at that time we called him slightly annoyed Frankie Fraser.Billy the bomb from Custom House was worse.

Gangsters tend to be gentlemen, at least at first, they use gentle persuasion + good money earned to persuade people to work with them. It’s later on that threats are made.

They were the days. Hard but beautiful. That was how it was. It was normal to us.I miss all those charaters. BEAUTIFUL. Much love to 'em.

Donohue "a tenner weren`t worth 2 bob back then". A weeks wages to an honest man FFS.

What a total waste of all those life's So sad

Reggie and Ronnie were NOT identical twins! Mum Violet had two eggs fertilised in one pregnancy. In 1965-67 I lived next door to the Blind Beggar pub owner at 13 Seagry Road, Wanstead. Their dogs got in and killed my brother's pet rabbit.

He seems to have done a lot of things in 5 years IE: he went away aged 18, he spent 42 years in prisons, he didn't seem to do any crime from 65 to 91, that's another 26 years, 18 + 26 + 42 = 86

Dave Courtney "did the Maths" on Frankie Fraser, which I must admit, was quite compelling. Like he said, "you dont do a lot from nought to 15 years, and you dont do a lot between 60 and 65 and that only leaves 50 years, 44 of which he's spent in prison. That only leaves six years in which do do all the stuff he's said. Or is it that he's making stuff up to write a book?" Whatever we may think about Mr Courtney you cant really argue with the statistics? Courtney also stated, "has Frankie Fraser really killed 40 people (as he claims) YES, with boredom! As with all history, you have to study the evidence and work out your own interpretation, but with some with these celebrity gangsters there is of course, a fair measure of relative, self-proclamed criminality for imagery and an equal measure of braggadocio

Frankie was also no street fighter that is for sure.

Low Miff - Narked/Narky - Lightly Bonkers - Massive Huff - Mad As A Lorry.

The krays would have been fucked if little Frankie hadn’t protected them

I think you just made that up!

From what I have read and seen in docu, s this guy was mire a torturer and bully than a fighter or tough guy?

In the description it calls him a thug . Say that to his family's face & see what happens .

I'm no expert but I thought freddie foreman and the lambriemo brothers were the henchmen in the krays firm. Thought mad frankie frazier was in the Richardson crew. I've read the krays book and seen the krays ( kemp brothers ) fab horrific movie. Either way frankie was well hard , concrete balls .

He was souff of the river, he worked alongside my old man, let me rephrase that my old man worked alongside him, last of rhe old school, he was involved heavily in the car park scheme amd getting credit for the building materials, my old man kept quiet did his time and left the scene becouse my mum tild him, it will be interested if Eddie and co remember him, big Brian Rose, looked like charles bronson the actor hard face and the best tash in south london, he 90 now but he remember the times well some of them, you would remember him when you had a christmas due and my old man drunk charle under the table amd it was late and he went over the road to the cafe had a breakfast, he tells me a couplenof you came over but he had finished and wanted to drink more, Eddie i dont suppose you remember that as Charlie gone RIP, frankie gone, cornell gone, my dad not high up in firm but he on your books, he got dementia now bit he can still kick my ass when i go to see him, he still has dagger in the sheaf that charlie gave him after one of the dustups..........you will remember him as you had him driving David bowie to all the clubs souff of river when he first started and they stayed friends up until he died, he always used to come and see my mum.and dad with Iman in the uk, amd my Dad was the one who bought Bob Hoskins RIP to one of your does, now you remeber ha ha that was Brian Rose my dad...

Bernard O'Baloney narrating this, in other words it's all BS.

Frank was declared insane by Broadmoor how he got out is a mystery.Although he was disparaged by many gangsters as being a coward and too small to be a fighter his record shows that with a weapon or with the help of others he was extremely violent and dangerous having shot dead another gangster and almost killed a Kray associate with an axe

Frank is a lion with the heart of a pigeon and the body of a pigeon.

What a genius.

Too many small firms around

Frankie never protected the twins, they didn’t need protection. Frankie could only fight a man who was tied up and defenceless, I believe the twins would have slaughtered the Richardson brothers

Plenty story's floating about how Frankie was shit scared of Arthur Thompson and even Reggie said that Arthur was one of the only men he was frightened of..all story's and never sure how true they are but Arthur was a man to be feared for sure.

Hands up if you've ever got chopped up a bit...... especially on the legs!!! FFS shite ten minutes of my life I won't get back 😂

Frank Fraser had knew the Krays growing up, however was acquainted with the Richardsons. Foreman was more Krays material. i just realised the title as was watching it again.

He hated the Krays. I think he hated most people.

Nice man old school more franks about less issues like today simple.

Fraser and Eddie were game as fuck, and could bash when need be. Eddie was a unit in his younger years, as you can see where he is standing by the car on this video. And Fraser, well he was one nasty piece of work, i bet they both instilled major fear into many other firms in their day.

frankie worked for the richardsons,ffs,get it right

I heard on a podcast he’s broke and living in a one bedroom council flat now.

Having survived his attack mcvitie later went on and created a biscuit company

What they don't tell you is between them they did 70 years in prison and don't have a pot to piss in really clever

Hard people but good people

Peter Gore Seer, Who Are The Krays, Not Half As Deadly As SIS MI6. And MI6 Were Internatinal, Not London City Centre.

He protected a pair of Paedos, how brave.

Didn't he also steal from houses during the blitz / when people were out doing war related duties?

Frankie was a nasty little fellow , but he's a lier

Remember kids honest money goes further.

"Tonight on 'Ethel the Frog...'"

I know someone who was in prison with Fraser in the 1990s. By all accounts Fraser used to go and get the papers in his slippers in the morning. Where the fuck he got the papers from I don’t know 😂

Love or loathe them, criminals like this are part of history, just like Jesse james, Bonnie & clyde, Billy the kid, the train robbers ETC. Odd to think that infamous people like the Krays & the Richardson's will still be talked about as much as the famous people will & long after this generation has gone too. It's a fact, that just like infamous people, some famous people, fade from people's memories & some never will.