Malcolm Hilbery

Sir George Malcolm Hilbery (14 July 1883 – 18 September 1965) was a British judge.

The son of a City solicitor, Hilbery was educated at University College School, and was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1907. In 1927 he was elected a bencher of his Inn and appointed Recorder of Margate. He took silk in 1928.[1]

In 1935 he was appointed to the High Court and assigned to the King's Bench Division, receiving the customary knighthood the same year. In 1959 he was made a Privy Councillor.[1]

One of the most famous cases he presided over was the Murder of Gay Gibson.[2]

On 30 October 1952 he gave Christopher Craig's older brother Niven 12 years imprisonment for carrying out an armed robbery. Three days later Christopher Craig shot dead PC Sidney Miles on a Croydon rooftop.

References
  1. F. H. Cowper. "Hilbery, Sir (George) Malcolm". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33862. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "Murder in liner Camb sentenced to death". Belfast News-Letter. 23 March 1948. p. 3.
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