Billy Ayers

Billy "Fuckin" Ayers is a local boxer who is friends with Albert Hill and Charlie Cavendish Scott.

He grew up as an orphan, with a connection to a group of Irish travellers in London. His father was a respected man within the traveler group, but he fell in love with a punk rock lead singe, Beth (Billy's mother), and broke a promise to marry the daughter of another respected traveler. The father to this daughter had him killed, though Billy grew up believing his father's death was because of his own stupidity. His mother was only a young singer and had no income to take care of Billy, so she gave him up though it pained her. Billy thought his mother and father didn't love each other and that he became an orphan because they didn't want or care about him.

He lives in a changing room at a boxing gym in east London and appears to be feared by the other boxers at the local gym. In his room is a newspaper article suggesting that Billy is a fairly succesful boxer.