RANDOLPH TURPIN – the boxing legend leading detective claims.
John Plimmer, ex-head of West Midlands CID, says it’s “inconceivable” Turpin committed suicide, as ruled by an inquest.
A letter penned by Randy two years before his death has added weight to Plimmer’s theory that the former world middleweight champion was executed after threatening to expose a web of match fixing.
Turpin was poised to make public the fight game’s soiled underbelly of corruption. In the note, brave Turpin stressed he was not afraid, but gangsters had warned his wife and family would be harmed. The villains responsible were simply referred to as “they”. Around the same time, he was beaten up
