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My name's
Freddie, Freddie Foreman
I was born
in 1932
I was a war
child baby, I was eight years old
when the war
was declared
So I was an
evacuee, very unhappy childhood really
Everybody
was anti-authority in those days
They never
really believed in uniforms or police
It was installed
in you not to grass on your friends
or inform
on your mates
I'd leave
school at fourteen start going working in a factory
Humping fucking
hundred weight sacks up ladders and things
That's all
I could do as a kid
And all it
did was build your strength up you know and
You would
get like four quid a week,
what could
you do with four pound a week
So you had
to go out and do a bit of thieving
And that’s
how I turned to crime really
And then I
got nicked and went to The Old Bailey
The number
one court at sixteen years of age
Now little
did I know then that I would be going back to
The number
one court about Five times in years to come
Prison is
an education Prison educates people
As years went
on I progressed and you just
get in a bigger
league you know
Going for
bigger prizes and getting big big money
You have to
do your apprenticeship through the prison system
And that's
where you educate yourself,
that's where
people learn their trade
Don't they
really that's how I progressed
And then it
got to the big league we was robbing
firms was
getting money
Get a few
of their workers,
Give them
an extra four quid in their wages
Give them
a cosh, put them in the back of the lorry
Send them
all down to the bank to pick up the wages
As they used
to come, we used to ram the lorry
and then steam in the back and Nobody
really got hurt it was all over so quick
They was about
twenties and thirty grand in those days and of course
The whole
objective of getting that sort of money was to go straight
and invest it
into straight businesses
But every
straight business you went into used to fold
and we'd employ people for
a few months.
And then you was out on the payment again trying to get a
bit more
This is how
things happened
And then in
sixty one there was a big armoured truck went
through Bow Common Lane And
it was going to the gas works
It was taking
the wages there from Couttes Bank in the city
It had a policeman
on board, a city copper with a dog and
four tellers in the back making
up the wages,
It was a big
brown bus like, very strong, stronged up
We stopped
it in Bow Common Lane and we rammed the front,
stopped it dead Come along
the side of it, done the windows in the side
Came round
the back put a chain in there,
wrenched the two back doors right off in
one swoop.
Went in to
get the money which was laying there
in these lovely brown leather cricket
bags, that's what they used to use those days,
And all of
a sudden, there is two guys in the back of the van, standing with the shooters
They started
letting go with these hand guns,
all we used
to use those days was like pick axe handles,
Now this was
a different story,
there they
were within your reach, the bags
And you couldn't
get your hands to them cause
these bullets
were flying everywhere
The copper
jumped out the side door with his dog,
And there
was a fight going on with a couple of the firm round there,
Next thing
you now, one of the firms on the floor crawling
on his hands and knees
and he's got a bullet through his head
Shot him right
through his head and out the other side.
We couldn't get in the back
of the van, got our man away,
Went back,
done the copper with a sledge hammer,
Smashed fuck
out of him, he let the geazer go, one of the firm,
And then we
got all our men away and drove off,
left the money there because of the
two fellows with the shooters,
It was the
turning point in the crime scene,
because from then on you never pulled
out on the street without a shotgun
From then
on things changed.
from:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/soundqlt/crims/foreman.htm
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