Freddie Foreman[1] (born 5 March 1932) is an English publican, gangster, former associate of the Kray twins and convicted criminal.
[2][3] For a large part of the 1960s, Foreman and the Kray twins' gang The Firm, ruled the streets in the East End of London.
At the time of the arrests, Foreman was 36 years old and licensee of The Prince of Wales Pub on Lant Street in Southwark.
Foreman was later sentenced to nine years imprisonment[4][3] for handling proceeds from the Security Express robbery in Shoreditch, East London in 1983, which at the time was the largest cash robbery in the UK along with Ronnie Knight, John Mason, Ronnie Everett and Cliford Saxe.
[5][6][3] In his autobiography, Respect, Foreman also admitted to the murders of Frank "Mad Axeman" Mitchell and Tommy "Ginger" Marks during the 1960s in revenge for the shooting of his brother who had been shot in the groin.