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BILLY FROST: “Jack” was the Krays’ driver and often hid weapons for them. He vanished during their murder trial in 1969 amid rumours they killed him as he knew too much. But Frost died in 2016 aged 84. EDDIE RICHARDSON & FRANKIE FRASER: The Torture Gang boss and his henchman Mad Frankie, right, meet for final time in 2012. Fraser died in 2014 aged 90. Eddie, 81, now paints and gives after-dinner speeches. CHARLIE RICHARDSON: One of Britain’s most terrifying gangsters in the 1960s. Known for pulling teeth out, chopping off toes with bolt cutters and nailing victims to the floor. Died in 2012 aged 78. VIC DARK: Pictured in bling and shades, the former armed robber and Krays’ debt collector once took a whole nightclub hostage at gunpoint in Ilford, Essex, then kidnapped a policeman. Now going straight, writing books and raising charity money. ROY SHAW: Kray pal who began unlicensed boxing aged 42 after doing 18 years for armed robbery – including time in Broadmoor. He had three fights with fellow gangster Lenny The Guv’nor McLean. Earned millions from land deals and died in 2012. SNAZZY suits, smoky dens, craggy-faced geezers sporting gold rings... and an elderly but menacing bare-chested boxer.
These striking black and white photographs are a gallery of Britain’s most notorious gangsters – from Mad Frankie Fraser to Freddie Foreman via the Richardsons and Dave Courtney.
Photographer Brian Anderson’s new book Long Shot & Two Smoking Cameras – a title inspired by Guy Ritchie’s film – took ten ye produce as he rounded up the vil and persuaded them to be shot
And he admits he found him some tricky situations.
When he met Roy ‘Pretty Boy Roy’ Shaw, who had a habit of stabbing informers and was an associate of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, there was nearly blood on the streets.
“I remember Roy picking me up in a Rolls-Royce, suited and booted,” says Brian.
“The roller broke down after five minutes. I had to get out the car and push the bloody