Billy Hill (gangster)

Billy Hill (gangster)

Billy Hill (William Charles Hill) (1911 – 1984) was one of the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in London from the 1920s through to the 1960s. He was a smuggler, operated protection rackets and used extreme violence. He project managed cash robberies and, in a clever scam, defrauded London High Society of millions at the card tables of John Aspinall's Clermont Club.

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