List of British gangsters
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This is a list of some organized crime figures within the underworld of the United Kingdom.
Name | Life | Years Active | Organization | Comments |
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Terry Adams | b. 1954 | 1970s-2003 | Clerkenwell crime syndicate | Head of the Clerkenwell crime syndicate until an investigation by MI5 and the Inland Revenue resulted in his imprisonment in 2003. |
Roy Francis Adkins | 1947–1990 | 1970s-1980s | One-time partner of Dutch drug czar Klass Bruinsma, he was allegedly head of the drugs division of the Bruinsma organisation during the 1980s. | |
Jack "Spot" Comer | 1912–1996 | 1930s-1950s
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Controlled London's East End bookmaking rackets until the 1950s. | |
George Cornell | 1928–1966 | 1960s-1966 | Richardson Gang | Enforcer who worked for Charlie and Eddie Richardson during the 1960s. A childhood friend of the Kray Twins, he was used the a go-between by the Richardson's until his murder by Ronnie Kray at The Blind Beggar pub in 1966. |
Tommy Comerford | 1933–2003 | 1990s-2003 | Liverpool underworld figure and drug trafficker. One of the first British mobsters to establish an international drug trafficking network in Great Britain. | |
Freddie Foreman | b. 1932 | 1948–1990 | Kray Twins | A freelance enforcer for the Kray twins during the 1960s, Foreman was involved in the gangland slayings of Jack "The Hat" McVitie and Ginger Marks. |
"Mad Frankie" Fraser | b. 1923 | 1939–1967 | Billy Hill, Richardson Gang | Longtime bodyguard of Billy Hill and later enforcer for Charlie and Eddie Richardson. Involved in the 1956 attack on Jack Spot and wife Rita with Bobby Warren and a gang of half a dozen men. Also involved in Great Train Robbery. |
Billy Hill | 1911–1984 | 1920s-1970s | Longtime underworld figure in the London underworld. A partner of Jack Spot during the 1940s, he also organized the Eastcastle St. postal van robbery in 1952 and a £40,000 bullion heist in 1954. | |
Ronnie and Reggie Kray | 1933-1995 (Ronnie) 1933-2000 (Reggie) |
1952–1968 | Controlled organized crime in London's East End during the 1950s and 60s. Responsible for the murders of George Cornell and Jack "The Hat" McVitie. | |
Thomas "Tam" McGraw | 1952–2007 | 1960s-2000s | Scottish mobster involved in extortion, narcotics and drug trafficking in Glasgow from the 1970s until his death in 2007. Was a gangland figure identified during the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars. | |
Jack "the Hat" McVite | d. 1967 | 1950s-1967 | Kray Twins | Drug trafficker and sometimes associate of the Kray twins. Lured to an underworld party, he was murdered by Reggie Kray following the failed gangland hit on suspected informant Leslie Payne. |
Messina Brothers | 1930s-1950s | Maltese-born Sicilian mobsters who controlled prostitution and white slavery. | ||
Desmond Noonan | b. 1959–2005 | 1980s-2000s | Noonan crime firm | A senior member of the Noonan "crime firm" in Manchester, he became its leader following his release from prison in 2003. He and his brother Dominic were responsible for at least 25 unsolved murders during their 20-year reign in Manchester's underworld. |
Dominic Noonan | 1966 | 1980s-2000s | Noonan crime firm | Head of the Noonan "crime firm" during the 1980s and 90s. The Noonans were the subject of director Donal MacIntyre's 2006 documentary A Very British Gangster. |
Kenneth Noye | b. 1947 | 1980s-1990s | Involved in the Brink's-MAT robbery in 1983 and subsequently stabbed police officer John Fordham to death. Though acquitted for Fordham's death, Noye was convicted of the 1996 murder of Stephen Cameron. | |
Charlie and Eddie Richardson | 1934-2012 (Charlie) b. 1936 (Eddie) |
1950s-1967 | Richardson Gang | Brothers who co-led the Richardson Gang in South London during the 1960s. Rivals of the Kray Twins, they were eventually imprisoned after being implicated in the murder of a South African businessman in 1967. |
Charles "Darby" Sabini | 1920s-1940s | Sabini Gang | Known as 'king of the racecourse gangs', his Clerkenwell-based organization controlled racecourses in London and throughout the south of England for much of the interwar years. |