Silver is the pseudonym of a colourful London gangster called Jimmy Holmes. Holmes was the Savile Row besuited right hand man to one of the East End’s most dangerous men, a murderer, pimp and drug dealer, just like Judas Pig protagonist Billy Abrahams. In hatred, he turned on his old partner, David “Longfella” Hunt, stealing £100,000 and beginning a guerilla campaign of humiliation and disruption against the man he’d once worked with.

For a while after publication, Holmes engaged with his new fans on the forums and through the encrypted Tor browser. Then, he disappeared. Perhaps Holmes’ criminal past caught up with him. Maybe age did. But in that case, who edited the Judas Pig Amazon page in 2021 – a page only Holmes had the password for?

In this series, we go in search of the Judas Pig in an attempt to make sense of one of the most complex, brilliant villains in London’s long criminal history. It’s a story of a white working class criminality that belongs to a different age, a story of antiheroes and armchair detectives where life is cheap and the suits are expensive. Through the Judas Pig, we take listeners into a murky underworld and bring to life a unique true crime story.