Billy Hill – aka the Bandit King – started off as a house burglar, before becoming became a smuggler, 'project manager' of massive robberies, and swindler, conning hundreds of aristocrats out of their casino money thanks to a gambling trick known as 'the Big Edge', which involved bending certain cards. Hill became notorious for 'chivving' or stabbing people in fights, and liked to carve a 'V for victory' sign on his victims' faces. He once said: "I was always careful to draw my knife down on the face, never across or upwards. So that if the knife slips you don't cut an artery. After all, chivving is chivving, but cutting an artery is usually murder. Only mugs do murder."