But the harassment continued, so a few months later she, her child and her parents moved out of Blair.Last week they filed a lawsuit, variously charging the boy- friend’s family, the Blair deputy sheriff, the doctor and the county prosecutor with trespass, assault, false arrest and violations of constitutional rights. The prosecutor argued, with only the doctor’s letter as evidence, that the girl’s health and morals had been endangered because of parental neglect.The judge ruled that she should be released back into her parents’ care but only “on condition that no abortion shall be performed on the subject’s unborn child without further order of the court”.In the weeks that followed the girl was under constant surveillance. Twenty-four hours later the girl appeared before a juvenile court. He ensured that his immediate kin – son, daughter, ex-wife and half-brother – were well and cheaply lodged courtesy of the council, but such allocations would have been regarded as a duty as much as a perk.
In mid-1993, when Mr Juppe signed the ill-fated letter, neither he – nor his colleagues in the Paris town hall – would probably have given the slightest thought to what he was doing.The prerogative came with the job, and Mr Juppe, whose position as deputy mayor in charge of finances gave him enormous power, doubtless abused it less than most. Now 72 years old, and having spent 40 of those inside, Mad Frank is taking to the London stage after hit appearances at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Two October dates have been booked at the Brick Lane music hall in the East End “Charlie Kray’s reserved two tickets. All the old show biz people’ll be there, Babs [Barbara Windsor], Danny, you know, la Rue,” publicity man Patrick Newley said.As Mad Frank performs with his pliers over Marilyn Wisbey, 30 years his junior and daughter of the Great Train robber, Tommy, Mr Newley shouts out and laughs: “Ere Frank, do you love her, do you share the same bed, what’s Frank like in bed Marilyn?” Mr Newley admits there is no line he draws on matters of taste “I used to work for the tabloids A lot of it was made up. By the way, my own book’s out next year, interested?”Mad Frank: Memoirs of a Life of Crime was published last year, selling 6,000 in hardback, 30,000 in paperback.
Where once New York hoods of the Twenties became lovable Harry the Horse or Bookie Bob at the hands of Damon Runyon, so too the real-life hardmen and thugs of London become “entertainers” at the hands of Friendly Frank `Were you part of an attractive set?” Frank is asked “Yes definitely,” he recalls. “Stanley Baker, the actor, did come up to visit me at Brixton when I was nicked for murder.”Ten hours of taped memoirs have been condensed to a “show” of nearly two hours by Frank’s agent, Michael Linden. Despite Frankie’s 15 convictions and bouts of official insanity, Mr Linden nevertheless regards his client as a “lovely man, completely unlike your stereotypical idea of a gangster”. Arguments settled by using broken bottles (glassing) or slashing buttocks with razors (striping) or even the use of guns, are passed over in favour of the showbiz side of crime “He [Frank] enjoyed getting out and meeting people Garland Baker. He cracks jokes, you know,” Mr Linden said.”There’s one comedian Frank knows.
So Frank asks `What you up to then?’ The comedian says `I’m doin’ Hamlet.’ Frank says `You have a rest I’ll do him for you’.”With his smart suit and tie and a full head of dyed brown hair, Friendly Frank is looking forward to taking to the Brick Lane stage.. Six people have lost pounds 15m in a financial fraud similar to the alleged multi-million pound fraud uncovered in Torquay earlier this month. Police in London, New York and Switzerland have been investigating the fraud which involved companies in London and Wales taking money from wealthy investors. They were invited to pay a minimum of $10m (pounds 6m) each for access to what was claimed to be a secondary, billion-dollar market in high-denomination notes issued by obscure foreign banks.
The pounds 100m banking fraud in Torquay was based in a former branch of the TSB in the town. A second man is due to appear before Torbay magistrates today on charges relating to the Tor-quay investigation.The companies in the second fraud, controlled by a financier in south- east England, charged $1m (pounds 600,000) as an up-front fee for every $10m (pounds 6m) invested, with the promise of a 2 per cent cut from every deal on the notes market.The 2 per cent would not be paid immediately, investors were told, but would roll-over into future trades. To back up their claims of serious financial muscle, the fraudsters produced documents apparently showing funding from Middle Eastern institutions and one of the region’s royal families.Clients paid their money and waited for their accumulated 2 per cent commissions to arrive When nothing came, they called in the police.
