Freddie Mills
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Freddie Mills, (June 26 1919 Parkstone, England - July 25 1965 London, England ) was a British boxer.
The world light heavyweight champion from 1948 to 1950, Mills became in retirement a London nightclub owner and friend of the Krays, who were two crime leaders.
He was, like so many Kray 'associates', found shot in the head, in Soho in 1965. The police said suicide, but several lurid theories sprang up: such as that Mills, married with children, had been arrested in a public toilet and charged with homosexual indecency; or that his suicide was staged by Chinese gangsters who were after his club. A recent book even claimed Mills had murdered eight prostitutes found in the Thames between 1959 and 1965 (the so-called "Jack the Stripper" killings), then killed himself when the net began to tighten.