Overview
- Foreman died at a west London care home following a short illness, his family said, with his eldest son Greg at his side on Saturday.
- He was a chief enforcer for the Kray twins in the 1960s and was convicted in 1967 for helping to dispose of Jack ‘The Hat’ McVitie’s body, a crime that carried a 10‑year sentence.
- In 1983 Foreman was linked to the record Security Express cash robbery, stayed on the run until Spanish police arrested him on the Costa del Sol, and he was jailed in 1990 for nine years.
- Though acquitted twice at the Old Bailey, Foreman later admitted involvement in killings and said he helped dispose of bodies at sea, a mix of courtroom outcomes and later confessions that complicate his record.
- Released in 1995, he published several books and advised on films about the era, and his death has prompted family tributes and renewed public debate over the legacy and mythmaking of Britain’s organised‑crime figures.