NAME:
Alfred Turner
DOB: 19/05/1932
HEIGHT: 5”11
WEIGHT: 180 pounds
HAIR COLOUR: Red
EYE COLOUR: Brown
KNOWN ALIASES:
“RED TURNER”, “ALF TURNER”, “FRED TAYLOR”

HISTORY:

Alfred Turner, aka “Red Turner”, is the presumed leader of an armed robbery gang operating in the Greater London area. Born in Putney in 1932 to Jonathan and Annabel Turner, Alfred’s childhood, as far as it can be ascertained, was completely normal. His father, Jonathan, earned a decent living as a train driver on the London Underground – and served with distinction as member of the Royal Engineers during the Second World War, assisting in the construction of Mulberry Harbours (See: DoD file #21023129). Turner’s mother, Annabel, did her part for the war effort as a machinist.

In November 1948, Turner’s father was gunned down on the way from work in a suspected robbery and Alfred, then studying with a view to become an engineer, was forced to drop his studies to support his mother and younger sister (See: Met Homicide file #08125933). For the best part of two years, Turner worked as a butcher’s apprentice in Stepney – grass reports gathered by East Ham Flying Squad from the period suggest it is likely the Binney Twins, then enforcers in the Donoghue Gang, used Turner’s butchers as a disposal point (See: Met Intelligence dossier #0234543). These claims are unsubstantiated, but are worth making note of in light of Turner’s future line of work.

In 1952, Turner was drafted for National Service and served in the Royal Fusiliers in Korea (See: DoD file #73024522). On his second tour in 1953, Turner was given an honorable discharge after contracting a particularly nasty strain of malaria and sent back to London. Perhaps motivated by his inability to find work upon his return from Korea, Turner’s alias “Alf Taylor” first appears in a Wandsworth Flying Squad report in connection to a spate of robberies across South London (See: Met Intelligence dossier #2345904).

In 1956, four synchronised robberies take place across East London at Donoghue-held businesses. Without a single shot being fired, more than £480,000 pounds is lifted from these properties and distributed between Turner and his eight associates (See: Met Intelligence dossier #2346290). Within two days, seven of Turner’s associates are found dead in locations across South and East London – and the seventh, Roger Kinnear, appears at Camberwell Police Station requesting police protection (See attached addendums CPS4338121 and CPS4338122). Shortly thereafter, on information provided by Kinnear, a badly beaten Turner is apprehended attempting to board a ferry to Calais.

Ahead of Turner’s trial, Kinnear – then under police protection – disappeared. Without Kinnear there to give evidence against him, Turner was sentenced to only five years in prison (See: DoJ document attached). After two years, taking into account Turner’s good behaviour while behind bars – and his military record – a parole board saw fit to release him back onto London’s streets.

From there, the trail goes cold for several years. Turner goes to ground. Nothing – not a mention of “Alf Turner” in a single Flying Squad report for the best part of four years. Grasses suggest Turner may have left London for fear of recrimination from what remains of the Donoghue organisation, with some suggesting he may have fled as far as South America. And then, without explanation, Turner reappears in South London in 1961 (See: Met Intelligence dossier #45232320) – and with him a series of heists over the next three years the like, and frequency of which, London has never seen before.

To assert that Turner’s return and this crime wave are linked without hard evidence would be folly, but not to ask the question at all would be more dangerous still. Where Turner was between 1958-1961 is anyone’s guess – but if he is back for good, and operating with the sanction of all, or any of London’s organised crime families, I suspect Flying Squad’s across this city of ours will have no shortage of work on their hands.

Sincerely,

Detective Superintendent Thomas Brown
Metropolitan Police Force Organised Crime Division
12/3/1964

NAME:
Charles Enfield
DOB:
26/5/1939
HEIGHT: 6'0
WEIGHT: 185 pounds.
HAIR COLOUR: Black
EYE COLOUR: Blue
KNOWN ALIASES:
"THE YANK", "CHARLIE WHITEBREAD", "CHUCK BRIXTON"

HISTORY:

Charles Enfield, aka "The Yank", et. al, is the suspected second in command of an armed robbery gang operating in the Greater London area. Born in 1939 to a prostitute in Brixton, Enfield was arrested at the age of twelve for attacking a group of neighborhood bullies (See: Met file 3579551). When interviewed by PC H. Bingham, the boy said that the attack, which required all boys be admitted to hospital, came after relentless teasing about his mother's line of work, and the unknown man who was his father. During PC Bingham's interview, Enfield revealed that his mother had told him his father was a US air pilot who came to London during the War, and was shot down and killed over Germany. (See Met field report #852369) Based on Enfield's DOB and later inquires he made in America, it is assumed this story was a fiction his mother spun to keep him happy.

Subsequently, Enfield was arrested all throughout his teenage years for crimes ranging from petty theft, to battery, to even pepping. (See Addendums 257895, 1789623, and 3009513846 respectively) For these crimes, Enfield spent months to years long stretches in juvenile reformatory centers, where he was reported to be a model prisoner. At the age of eighteen, Enfield enlisted in the US Army, claiming his false half-american lineage and seeing the enlistment as an easy path to American citizenship. (See: US DoD File #91478963)

Private Enfield's anti-social behaviour did not stop once he enrolled in the Army. He was cited many times for infractions of Army Code of Conduct both small and large, and then finally arrested on 10/11/59 for assaulting a superior officer. Enfield was dishonourably discharged, his US citizenship revoked, and he was sentenced to a year at a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. (See: US DoD File #60508033) Like as a teenager, Enfield's behaviour in prison was a stark contrast to how he acted on the street. He was granted early release in the autumn of 1960 and shipped back to England, back to Brixton.

Enfield popped back up on the Met's radar in early 1961, when the Brixton Flying Squad caught a photo of him working the door at The Kit Kat Klub, a gentlemen's club suspected to be a whorehouse and owned by Brixton gangster "Irish" Jim Doyle. (See: Met Intelligence dossier #446359) Enfield was off door duty by the time the Flying Squad returned to the Kit Kat Klub for second surveillance stint one month later.

Around the time of the second surveillance, a man matching Enfield's general height and weight was part of a four-man crew that robbed an armoured car of 25,000 pounds in small denominations. All four men wore ski-masks during the robbery to hide their faces. Enfield is only listed as a probable suspect because a grass informed the Brixton Flying Squad that armed guard James Harris was found out to be in debt to Jim Doyle for over five thousand pounds. (See: Met Flying Squad case file #4964123) Any further inquiries into the ties ended when Harris was found shot to death in his home. (See: Met Homicide file #09081961) Doyle was brought in for questioning, but released.

Since that time, Enfield has been suspected of pulling off as many as a dozen heists in the Greater London area, with some links that he may have helped in robberies in Northern England. Underworld chatter has it that Enfield is seen as a tough figure, and his experience in the US military has given him extensive firearm training -- something many in the criminal underworld see as an intimidating factor -- which matches with descriptions of at least one of the masked robbers in the suspected heists.

The four-man crew Enfield helps run is suspected to be affiliated with one of the major criminal mobs in London, but all grasses have conflicting reports as to who they work and pay protection to. Well-connected, well-trained, and well-equipped, Enfield and his Crew are a threat to the safety of the people of London. It is in my opinion that Enfield and the rest should be surveilled around the clock in order to stop the next robbery before it can happen. Make no mistake, it will happen again.

Sincerely,

Detective Superintendent Thomas Brown
Metropolitan Police Force Organised Crime Division
25/6/1965