Mad Frankie Fraser signed photo

Born in Lambeth, London, Fraser was in 1941 sent to Borstal for breaking into a Waterloo hosiery store and was then given a 15 month prison sentence at Wandsworth prison.
After the war, Fraser continued where he left off, and was involved in numerous criminal activities.
In the early 1960s he first met Charlie and Eddie Richardson, members of the notorious Richardson gang and rivals to the Kray twins. According to Fraser, it was they who helped him avoid arrest for the Great Train Robbery (in which he played no part) by bribing a policeman. Together they set up the Atlantic Machines fruit machines enterprise, which acted as a front for the criminal activities of the gang. In 1966 Fraser was charged with the murder of Richard Hart. The witness changed his testimony and the charges were eventually dropped, though he still received a five year sentence for affray. He was also implicated in the so-called "Torture trial", in which members of the gang were charged with burning, electrocuting and whipping those found guilty of disloyalty by a kangaroo court. In the trial at the Old Bailey in 1967 he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
All that said, I found him a charming gentleman, far more honourable than any politician judge or policeman!