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- A HENCHMAN who dared to turn against the Kray twins has died in a care home at the age of 80. Albert Donoghue was a chief lieutenant in Ronnie and Reggie’s gangland empire in the 1960s. He lured “Mad Axeman” Frank Mitchell into the back of a van on the pretence he was being taken to a safe- house. Mitchell was shot 12 times.
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Apr 9, 2016 · An enforcer for the Kray twins who turned informant following a notorious gangland slaying has died, the Sunday People can reveal. Albert Donoghue, who was regarded as a chief lieutenant in Ron...
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Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland on Bonfire night, November 5th, 1935, to a strict working-class Catholic family. The third of four children, the others being girls, his father, Joe, was a seaman and in the British merchant navy, sailing out to Belfast frequently. He died of pneumonia soon after moving the family to Stepney in London's East End...
Starting out with a few villains on a small robbery, his main business was payroll snatches, operating in Bow, two miles east of Bethnal Green, the Kray's territory. The gang was commonly known as Harry Abrahams' Firm, until Abraham himself was sentenced to five years imprisonment. In the late 1950s, he began working at the racecourse betting pitches for Albert Dimes, Billy Hill’s lieutenant, similarly to the twins, who had done for Jack Spotseveral years previously. He met his future wife wh...
Joining The Firm
On 17 September 1962, Donoghue received a three-year prison sentence after being found guilty of attempted larceny of £3,000 during a payroll robbery and was sent to Pentonville Prison. Meanwhile, the Krays were informed of what Donoghue had said about Hamilton’s torturer the previous year, and took it as a threat (they did not realise that he was unaware of who was responsible). When released from prison in October 1964, Donoghue went for a drink in The Crown & Anchor in Cheshire Street, Bet...
Albert played a crucial role in Frank ''The Mad Axeman'' Mitchell's escape from Dartmoor prison. On Monday December 12th 1966, he and Teddy Smith had driven down to Dartmoor in Devon in a grey Humber, parked up at an agreed meeting place and Frank had walked round the corner and simply got in. As Donoghue says in his book, 'The Enforcer', Frank was allowed to roam the moor on his own but had always come back to the works party in which he was part of, who were out working on ditches and the l...
When Reggie Kray killed Jack McVitie, Donoghue helped redecorate the blood-soaked room that the murder occurred in. At the time of the Firm's downfall and the Kray twins arrest on the 8th May 1968, Donoghue was thirty-two and living on Devons Road in Bow. He met The Krays in a custodial solicitors visit and handed them his notes on what had happene...
In 1996 Donoghue released an autobiography titled, The Kray's Lieutenant. Donoghue never hid from anybody, staying in his home area in and around the East End, later moving to Peckham and then Kent. Many assumed he had moved to Liverpool but he had actually remained in East London. He later had a small industrial painting and decorating business do...
Donoghue passed away in the early hours of 6th April 2016, in a hospital nearby to his care home in Redbridge, London, following a serious stroke. Alan Dixon, of the Krays’ rival Dixons firm, paid tribute to his death.
The Enforcer: Secrets of My Life with the Krays, with Martin Short, Blake Publishing Ltd, 270 pages, 12 January 1996
Feb 22, 2023 · What happened to The Firm? Following the murder of former associate Jack "The Hat" McVitie by Reggie, the Krays and several other members were arrested by the Scotland Yard police officers who...
Apr 10, 2016 · KRAY REBEL IS DEADAlbert, 80, was gangland gent who turned on twins. A HENCHMAN who dared to turn against the Kray twins has died in a care home at the age of 80. Albert Donoghue was a chief lieutenant in Ronnie and Reggie’s gangland empire in the 1960s.
On 24 December 1966 Mitchell was led into the back of a van by Albert Donoghue, thinking he was to be taken to a safe house in the countryside where he would meet up with Ron Kray. There was almost another argument when he realised that Liza would not be coming with him; Donoghue persuaded him that it was safer for her to follow later on.
Aug 11, 2024 · From his early days in a strict Catholic family to becoming a key figure in the East End's criminal underworld, this video explores Donoghue's rise to power, his ultimate betrayal of the...
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Aug 2, 2022 · Albert Donoghue, the gang’s right-hand man and chief executive, would have gone down for the death of Frank Mitchell. He not only refused to confess - but became the first to give evidence to the police against the brothers.
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