Murder in Soho: Who Killed Freddie Mills?
BBC Four
★★★☆☆
The Real Marigold Hotel
BBC One
★★☆☆☆
Now largely forgotten, Freddie Mills was one of British sport’s biggest names during the 1940s and 1950s, holding the light heavyweight world championship before parlaying his fame into a sideline in light entertainment and films. He was also found shot dead in his car in Soho in July 1965. Suicide, the coroners decided, with what his family deemed indecent haste. Murder in Soho, they claimed.
The boxer Freddie Mills was found shot dead in his car in 1965
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Mills, after all, had worked in an industry not immune to conmen and mob money, and owned a nightclub in Soho, a part of London populated by racketeers, gangsters and corrupt coppers. Simon Dales’s fitfully fascinating documentary brought Mills and his era