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'Mad' Frankie Fraser

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The Resume

    (December 13, 1923-November 26, 2014)
    Born in London, United Kingdom
    Thief and gangster
    Bodyguard for 'Boss of the Underworld' Billy Hill
    Enforcer for the Richardson Brothers gang
    Served a total of 42 years in prison
    Last sentence ended in 1989
    Appeared in the film 'Hard Men' (1996)

Why he might be annoying:

    At age eight, he was already part of a protection racket.
    He deserted from the army during World War II.
    He was once busted when a car he stole ran out of gas in a tunnel.
    He was declared insane and transferred to high-security psychiatric hospitals three times.
    As the Richardsons' enforcer, he used a pair of pliers to yank out the teeth of gang members judged to have been disloyal.
    He led a riot at Parkhurst Prison (1969).
    He said his youngest son Francis 'let me down' by never getting in trouble with the law.
    A year before his death, police issued an ASBO (anti-social behavior order) against him after he threatened a fellow resident of his nursing care home who had sat in his favorite seat.

Why he might not be annoying:

    'The Daily Mail' wrote that his 'one redeeming feature was that he did not attempt to explain away his criminal behavior.'
    He survived being shot in the head at close range in an attempted murder (1991).
    He ran a coach tour of old gangland haunts in London and was reported to always be punctual and polite.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 72.73% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 10 Votes: 30.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 27 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 23 Votes: 56.52% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 159 Votes: 47.80% Annoying