Kray biographer John Pearson was also reportedly ... At one point, the murder of Frank Mitchell, a one-time friend of the Krays, came up. In December 1966, the pair helped the gangster, dubbed ...

Brothers who were forced to run errands for notorious London gangsters the Kray twins have brought their quest ... how Alfie was sent by the Krays to give a message to Frank “the mad axeman” Mitchell ...

In modern times, the only man who got away and was never caught was Frank Mitchell, ‘The Mad Axeman’, whose abscond from an outside working party in March 1966 was facilitated by the Kray Twins. His ...

The Mad Axeman is the name given to notorious criminal Frank Mitchell. Frank was a friend of the Kray twins, the criminals who ruled the streets of London in the swinging sixties. He famously ...

Frank Mitchell ... violence, Mitchell vanished into thin air 50 years ago, never to be seen again. The disappearance of a man, aided by notorious gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray, sparked the ...

From the 1950s through to the 1980s, Freddie Foreman was a notorious gangland figure and high-profile associate of the Kray twins ... d killed both Tommy ‘Ginger’ Marks and Frank ‘The Mad Axeman’ ...

"The most infamous prisoner we had was Frank Mitchell, the Mad Axeman. "He was an associate of the Kray twins. They facilitated his escape in 1966. He was taken to London to a safehouse and has ...

‘the pill’, the Kray Twins, a new Radio 1 and BBC2, and much more. Closer to home - as far-reaching social, cultural and political change went on in the background - there was plenty of drama ...

Even after a night in the cells, the Kray twins were ‘Brylcreemed to glossy perfection’ One client was Frank Mitchell, later known as the “Mad Axeman” because he had held a couple up with an axe. “He ...

When rugby fans looked at Danny Grewcock; scrum-cap on, a swaggering 6ft 6ins of sinewy muscle and raw aggression – which landed him in the dock more times than the Kray Twins – they envisioned ...

RONNIE and Reggie Kray were ... the twins quickly achieved celebrity status, and rubbing shoulders with the likes of lords, MPs, socialites and famous faces such as Frank Sinatra and Judy ...