Mills uncovered (?)

If you were a sports-mad young kid in the 1950s and early 1960s (as I was) and to some degree or another you followed the sport of boxing, the all-action lifestyle of British boxer Freddie Mills – who occasionally also appeared on kids’ TV programmes as a ‘one size fits all’ all-round celebrity light entertainer – had a certain appeal.

Separately, unknown to me at the time, Freddie had connections to the London underworld and, according to rumour, suffered from headaches and possibly some mental issues. He died in 1965 at the age of 46, officially from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Here’s a report with rather darker and more sinister overtones that appears today on the website of the – DAILY MAIL