MAD FREDDIE BEATS UP MAD FRANKIE

from an article in The People 22/9/02

Below is an article that appeared in The People describing a fight between Gangland veterans 'Mad' Frankie Fraser and 'Brown Bread' Freddie Foreman.

The events were relayed by 'onlookers' and an 'underworld source'.

I am sure that Frankie Fraser will respond to this article on his web site soon.

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AGEING mobsters Freddie Foreman and "Mad" Frankie Fraser proved that old habits die hard during a violent PUNCH-UP.

Despite a combined age of 145, they brawled at a cafe in an amazing 1960s-style gangland scrap.

Foreman, 69, laid in to his 76-year-old rival, flashing his fists faster than a pensioner's bus pass. He stunned customers by FLOORING Fraser with a right hook, then DRAGGING him along by his ANKLES.

One onlooker said: "It was a real shocker - Foreman might be nearly 70 but he showed he's still not to be messed with. "It was like a scene from The Krays film, only fast-forwarded 40 years.

"It could have been quite amusing to see two old guys acting like young toughs. But no one was laughing. We all knew who they were."

He added: "Fraser kept shouting 'What have I done?' But Foreman wouldn't listen and just kept on like a man possessed." An underworld source said:

"Freddie has been after him ever since Fraser wrote nasty things about him in a book. "Freddie has always had a good reputation in the crime world. You can't have other villains saying bad things about you."

Foreman, a self-confessed killer and enforcer for The Krays, finally stormed out of the cafe in Maida Vale, West London.

Ex-torturer Fraser, once a henchman for the rival Richardson gang, left by a back exit to avoid any more bloodshed. He refused to comment on the incident.