Justin Hill, son of the London gangster Billy Hill. Photograph: Sam Frost
If your father was one of the most notorious criminals of the last century, would you want everyone to know? Justin Hill, the son of the late Billy Hill, who was known as the “boss of Britain’s underworld” in the 1950s, is in no doubt that he would like everyone to acknowledge the fact.
He is anxious for people to know about his relationship to the legendary hard man of Soho, not because he has any intention of following in his footsteps but because he is weary of seeing inaccurate stories about his parents in the ever-expanding world of true-crime histories. Now that his adoptive mother, the famously flamboyant and glamorous Gypsy Hill, who was herself known as the “queen of the underworld”, has died, he says he wants to set the record straight.
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