A world boxing champion turned TV and film star was shot dead by feared gangster Reggie Kray, it is claimed today. Freddie Mills was found in the back seat of his silver Citroen DS19 sports car after being shot through the eye.
It was July 1965 and the death has been the subject of rumour and claim ever since. Police declared Mills killed himself after suffering depression and mounting debts.
There were suggestions he took his own life to avoid being exposed as a serial killer dubbed Jack the Stripper. But a third theory never went away...
he died in a gangland hit. Now James Campbell, a former adviser to the Kray twins, has sensationally claimed it was Reggie – like Ronnie, a one-time amateur boxer – who pulled the trigger on the orders of
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