Malcolm Hilbery
Sir George Malcolm Hilbery 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.
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.
One of the most famous cases he presided over was the Murder of Gay Gibson.
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.
