In 1953, he allegedly hit legendary hangman Albert Pierrepoint when he was on his way to execute Derek Bentley, who was wrongly convicted of the murder of a policeman. Afraid of being heavily medicated for bad behaviour, Fraser stayed out of trouble and was released in 1955. He was again certified insane while at HM Prison Durham and this time sent to Broadmoor Hospital. He took part in more bank robberies and spent more time in prison.
During the 1950s his main occupation was as bodyguard to well-known gangster Billy Hill. It was during this sentence that he was first certified insane and was sent to Cane Hill Hospital before being released in 1949. Although he was conscripted he later boasted that he had never once worn the uniform, preferring to ignore call-up papers, desert and resume his criminal activities.Īfter the war, Fraser was involved in a smash-and-grab raid on a jeweller, for which he received a two-year prison sentence, served largely at HM Prison Pentonville. In 1942 while serving a prison sentence in HM Prison Chelmsford he came to the attention of the British Army. Such were the criminal opportunities during the war, Fraser later joked in a television interview many years later that he had never forgiven the Germans for surrendering. In 1941, aged seventeen he was sent to Borstal for breaking into a Waterloo hosiery store, then given a 15-month prison sentence at HM Prison Wandsworth for shop-breaking.
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It was during the war that he first became involved in serious crime, with the blackout and rationing, combined with the lack of professional policemen due to conscription, providing ample opportunities for criminal activities such as stealing from houses while the occupants were in air-raid shelters during the Blitz. Fraser was a deserter during World War II, on several occasions escaping from his barracks. Patricks Roman Catholic School in Waterloo.
Although his parents were not criminals, Fraser turned to crime aged 10 with his sister Eva, whom he was close to. Fraser's father worked hard long hours as a wood sawyer at the local cricket bat makers, Stuart Surridge, for around two pounds a week.Īt the age of five he moved with his family to a flat on Walworth Road, Elephant and Castle. His mother, Margaret, was of Irish and Norwegian ancestry his father was James Fraser (born 1885) was half Native American. The youngest of five children, Fraser grew up into a working-class, poverty-stricken family. He was delivered by his maternal grandmother. Fraser was born on Cornwall Road in Waterloo, London, on 13 December 1923.
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