July 1951
Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, a 3-to-1 favourite, trained in the shadow of Windsor Castle.
A strange thing happened the day prior to the bout: a young girl named Christine Butcher, aged only seven years, went missing while venturing off to visit Robinson at his camp only 30 metres away, kicking off a feverish police search.
En route to the weigh-in on Windmill Street in London, the streets were so choked with people that Robinson’s Cadillac was literally pushing its way through the crowd. Traffic was stopped in all directions at Piccadilly Circus, with reports stating it was the biggest crowd of people to take to the streets of London since V Day — the day when the Allied powers celebrated victory over the Axis powers six years earlier. Robinson was a half-hour late to the weigh-in because of the traffic.
An A.P. report out of Windsor read: “Christine had a doll that she imagined looked like Sugar Ray. She set off yesterday to show the doll to the champion. No one has reported seeing her since.” It was little more than an afterthought among the more pressing news, like how much heavier than the champion Turpin would scale, but it would later become haunting.
As the two men were toiling inside the ring, an investigation was underway;
The body of young Christine Butcher had been found not far from Windsor and “a white man in a grey suit” was sought for questioning. Her murder kicked off six weeks of similar crimes.
It’s interesting that Christine was on her way to meet Sugar Ray Robinson:
Robinson was a high-ranking mason, and was for a time in a relationship (some sites say married) to Mary Ann Degrimston, co-founder of the (CIA-linked) satanic Process Church, which famously interviewed Savile for the “Sex” issue of their magazine.
Degrimston later worked as an escort in London and may have been involved with the Profumo scandal.
Sugar Ray Robinson was a Prince Hall Freemason.
The body of 7 yr-old Christine Butcher (who had been violated before and after her murder) was found in Stephen’s Field of Windsor Park
Stephen’s Field is in the grounds of the castle.
Jimmy Savile was desperate to take part in the first Tour of Britain, organised as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations and sponsored by the Daily Express .
