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Peter John Hill
Peter John Hill (born 1953) is an Australian former outlaw biker and gangster.
Hill was born into a very wealthy family in Melbourne. His father, Roger was a senior executive with the Australia and New Zealand Bank while his mother Audrey was a prominent socialite in Melbourne high society. Despite his family's wealth and growing up in a loving family, Hill chose a life of crime. In a 2006 interview with the Canadian journalists Julian Sher and William Marsden, Hill stated of his youth: "It was party time. Parties, women, bikes, fast, all the good things in life, when you are young, Live for the moment, I did that for fourteen years. It was a big slice of my life. It was a lot of fun. I thought so at the time, anyway". Sher and Marsden described Hill in the 1970s as a tall, lean man with long, curly black hair, a prominent nose, a narrowly formed face with "determined eyes" and "a hint of a smile". In 2006, Sher and Marsden wrote that for besides for being balding that Hill was very still the same man as he had been in the 1970s as he came across as a "party animal". The policeman Steele Waterman stated in 2019: "Peter had an infectious personality. He fell in love with bikies. He joined them when they were just a bunch of baggy-arsed kids hanging out the front of a hamburger shop". Hill also told Sher and Marsden that his parents were "far from impressed" with his career choices. Hill joined an outlaw biker gang, the Phantoms Motorcycle Club, that "patched over" in 1972 to become the Hells Angels Melbourne chapter.
Hill rejected the values of his upper-class family and had a tattoo inked on his arm that read: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil because I am the evilest motherfucker who ever walked through the Valley". Hill was known as a joker who seemed to take nothing seriously. Hill laughed when the police raided his house to seize $10, 000 Australian dollars along with a package of amphetamine, and invited the arresting officers over for tea. Despite his persona, Hill was seriously about taking over the amphetamine business in Australia as he told Sher and Marsden: "The Hells Angels wanted to become the dominant club in Australia, which created a lot of animosity and resentment. We had a strategy for expansion. It was a desire to control the drug business. We set up a structure to sell all over Australia and get the other clubs to distribute it on the street".
From 1975 onward, Hill was pursued by his nemesis, Sergeant Robert "Bob" Armstrong of the Victoria Police, who kept up his pursuit of Hill despite being a bevy of death threats from the Hells Angels. During his raids on the homes of the Hells Angels, Armstrong discovered guns, false driver's licenses, stolen jewelry, a manual entitled Speed make easy: how to manufacture amphetamines, and primitive labs for manufacturing amphetamines, commonly known as "speed" in Australia. Armstrong gave a press conference on television where he accused the Melbourne chapter of gun-running and selling amphetamines, which led Hill as chapter president to sue him for slander of himself and the rest of his chapter.The defamation lawsuit was dropped when the judge ruled that the Melbourne chapter of the Hells Angels were so infamous that they had no reputation to defame. In spite of the judge's ruling, Armstrong recalled: "That [the defamation lawsuit] got up my nose. That's where it started".
Hill visited the United States several times in the late 1970s under a forged passport to meet several leaders of the Angels' Oakland chapter, which is considered to be the "mother chapter" to all the Hells Angels in the world. Hill visited Oakland four times. During his trip to California, Hill attracted attention by renting a Diamond Jubilee Thunderbird automobile while giving as his address to the car rental company the address of the Oakland chapter. When Hill's automobile was parked at a Hells Angels run, his license plate was written by a policeman. When Hill was pulled by a patrolman of the California Highway Patrol, Hill gave him a false address of the building right next to the Oakland chapter, which attracted further attention of the American authorities.
Kenny "Old Man" Maxwell, a former chemist for the Royal Dutch Shell Oil company, had started to work for the Hells Angels. Maxwell also trained three members of the Oakland chapter, James Brandes, Sergei Walton and Kenny Owen into how to make amphetamines. Manufacturing amphetamines required considerable skill as carelessness could easily cause a fire or explosion. Hill became a close friend of Brandes who arranged for him to meet Walton in prison. Hill's car was observed to be often parked in the driveway of Brandes's house. Walton described at length to Hill the best way to safety and economically manufacture amphetamines. In return, Hill agreed to buy in bulk the chemical phenyl-2-propanone (P2P), which was crucial for manufacturing amphetamines and was legal in Australia at the time to smuggle into the United States.
Upon returning to Melbourne, Hill had P2P smuggled into the United States by draining the pineapple juice from the three-liter Golden Circle cans and replacing the juice with P2P. Between 1980 and 1982, Hill was responsible for smuggling 300 liters of P2P into the United States, which provided enough P2P to manufacture about US$50 million worth of amphetamines. Hill received no share of the profits from the amphetamine sales in the United States as he was told that shipping P2P was his contribution to the legal defense fund of Hells Angels international president Sonny Barger and other Hells Angels leaders who been tried on RICO charges. In exchange for helping to pay Barger's legal fees, Hill and the others were allowed to continue to wear their Hells Angels patches. Hill stated: "The recipe from the United States was the actual starting point, and it was a matter of teaching ourselves how to use the various chemicals involved. He [Walton] was the only one who knew how to do it." Together with three Hells Angels of the Melbourne chapter, Ray Hamment, John Madden and Roger Biddlestone, Hill built a lab for manufacturing amphetamines. With the start-up capital of $15, 000 Australian dollars raised by the sale of stolen motorcycles, Hill and the others opened their amphetamines-manufacturing lab in late 1980. The P2P he used came from the Calaire Chemical Company of Calais, France while the uncle of the Hells Angel Terry "Pop" Faulkner provided the necessary import license. Profits from the sales of the amphetamines were split equally four ways while Faulkner received a commission for importing the P2P from France. Faulkner consistently lied to Hill about the cost of the importing P2P to take greater commission than what he was entitled to. Some of the profits from the sale of amphetamines was used to buy real estate for the Melbourne chapter while Hill used some of his share of the profits to put on several well-received rock concerts. Hill stated: "Without the cover of the club we wouldn't have been able to do it and distribute it. Without the club, it would have been a lot more difficult". Hill came to be known as "the Speed King".
The first lab used by Hill was in a house in Belgrave, a suburb of Melbourne. However, the Angels soon discovered the distinctive bad smell caused by manufacturing amphetamines attracted too much attention. Hill rented a house called Greenslopes in a rural area outside of the village of Wattle Glen. Hill and his team could cook about five pounds of amphetamines in about 24 hours. Hill covered the windows with black plastic garbage bags and sealed the doors. The fumes from cooking amphetamines were so toxic that the chrome on the fans that he installed inside were all eaten away. Hill and the others had to wear gas masks for their protection. The price for 1 pound of amphetamines was $10, 000 Australian dollars, but as the demand was huge, Hill soon raised his price to $12, 000 Australian dollars per 1 pound. To increase his production, Hill replaced his fiver-litre reactor vessel with twenty-litre reactor vessel, which allowed him to substantially increase production. Hill reduced the purity of his amphetamines "out of greed" as he put it from 66% to 50% by diluting it with sugar.
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Peter John Hill
Peter John Hill (born 1953) is an Australian former outlaw biker and gangster.
Hill was born into a very wealthy family in Melbourne. His father, Roger was a senior executive with the Australia and New Zealand Bank while his mother Audrey was a prominent socialite in Melbourne high society. Despite his family's wealth and growing up in a loving family, Hill chose a life of crime. In a 2006 interview with the Canadian journalists Julian Sher and William Marsden, Hill stated of his youth: "It was party time. Parties, women, bikes, fast, all the good things in life, when you are young, Live for the moment, I did that for fourteen years. It was a big slice of my life. It was a lot of fun. I thought so at the time, anyway". Sher and Marsden described Hill in the 1970s as a tall, lean man with long, curly black hair, a prominent nose, a narrowly formed face with "determined eyes" and "a hint of a smile". In 2006, Sher and Marsden wrote that for besides for being balding that Hill was very still the same man as he had been in the 1970s as he came across as a "party animal". The policeman Steele Waterman stated in 2019: "Peter had an infectious personality. He fell in love with bikies. He joined them when they were just a bunch of baggy-arsed kids hanging out the front of a hamburger shop". Hill also told Sher and Marsden that his parents were "far from impressed" with his career choices. Hill joined an outlaw biker gang, the Phantoms Motorcycle Club, that "patched over" in 1972 to become the Hells Angels Melbourne chapter.
Hill rejected the values of his upper-class family and had a tattoo inked on his arm that read: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil because I am the evilest motherfucker who ever walked through the Valley". Hill was known as a joker who seemed to take nothing seriously. Hill laughed when the police raided his house to seize $10, 000 Australian dollars along with a package of amphetamine, and invited the arresting officers over for tea. Despite his persona, Hill was seriously about taking over the amphetamine business in Australia as he told Sher and Marsden: "The Hells Angels wanted to become the dominant club in Australia, which created a lot of animosity and resentment. We had a strategy for expansion. It was a desire to control the drug business. We set up a structure to sell all over Australia and get the other clubs to distribute it on the street".
From 1975 onward, Hill was pursued by his nemesis, Sergeant Robert "Bob" Armstrong of the Victoria Police, who kept up his pursuit of Hill despite being a bevy of death threats from the Hells Angels. During his raids on the homes of the Hells Angels, Armstrong discovered guns, false driver's licenses, stolen jewelry, a manual entitled Speed make easy: how to manufacture amphetamines, and primitive labs for manufacturing amphetamines, commonly known as "speed" in Australia. Armstrong gave a press conference on television where he accused the Melbourne chapter of gun-running and selling amphetamines, which led Hill as chapter president to sue him for slander of himself and the rest of his chapter.The defamation lawsuit was dropped when the judge ruled that the Melbourne chapter of the Hells Angels were so infamous that they had no reputation to defame. In spite of the judge's ruling, Armstrong recalled: "That [the defamation lawsuit] got up my nose. That's where it started".
Hill visited the United States several times in the late 1970s under a forged passport to meet several leaders of the Angels' Oakland chapter, which is considered to be the "mother chapter" to all the Hells Angels in the world. Hill visited Oakland four times. During his trip to California, Hill attracted attention by renting a Diamond Jubilee Thunderbird automobile while giving as his address to the car rental company the address of the Oakland chapter. When Hill's automobile was parked at a Hells Angels run, his license plate was written by a policeman. When Hill was pulled by a patrolman of the California Highway Patrol, Hill gave him a false address of the building right next to the Oakland chapter, which attracted further attention of the American authorities.
Kenny "Old Man" Maxwell, a former chemist for the Royal Dutch Shell Oil company, had started to work for the Hells Angels. Maxwell also trained three members of the Oakland chapter, James Brandes, Sergei Walton and Kenny Owen into how to make amphetamines. Manufacturing amphetamines required considerable skill as carelessness could easily cause a fire or explosion. Hill became a close friend of Brandes who arranged for him to meet Walton in prison. Hill's car was observed to be often parked in the driveway of Brandes's house. Walton described at length to Hill the best way to safety and economically manufacture amphetamines. In return, Hill agreed to buy in bulk the chemical phenyl-2-propanone (P2P), which was crucial for manufacturing amphetamines and was legal in Australia at the time to smuggle into the United States.
Upon returning to Melbourne, Hill had P2P smuggled into the United States by draining the pineapple juice from the three-liter Golden Circle cans and replacing the juice with P2P. Between 1980 and 1982, Hill was responsible for smuggling 300 liters of P2P into the United States, which provided enough P2P to manufacture about US$50 million worth of amphetamines. Hill received no share of the profits from the amphetamine sales in the United States as he was told that shipping P2P was his contribution to the legal defense fund of Hells Angels international president Sonny Barger and other Hells Angels leaders who been tried on RICO charges. In exchange for helping to pay Barger's legal fees, Hill and the others were allowed to continue to wear their Hells Angels patches. Hill stated: "The recipe from the United States was the actual starting point, and it was a matter of teaching ourselves how to use the various chemicals involved. He [Walton] was the only one who knew how to do it." Together with three Hells Angels of the Melbourne chapter, Ray Hamment, John Madden and Roger Biddlestone, Hill built a lab for manufacturing amphetamines. With the start-up capital of $15, 000 Australian dollars raised by the sale of stolen motorcycles, Hill and the others opened their amphetamines-manufacturing lab in late 1980. The P2P he used came from the Calaire Chemical Company of Calais, France while the uncle of the Hells Angel Terry "Pop" Faulkner provided the necessary import license. Profits from the sales of the amphetamines were split equally four ways while Faulkner received a commission for importing the P2P from France. Faulkner consistently lied to Hill about the cost of the importing P2P to take greater commission than what he was entitled to. Some of the profits from the sale of amphetamines was used to buy real estate for the Melbourne chapter while Hill used some of his share of the profits to put on several well-received rock concerts. Hill stated: "Without the cover of the club we wouldn't have been able to do it and distribute it. Without the club, it would have been a lot more difficult". Hill came to be known as "the Speed King".
The first lab used by Hill was in a house in Belgrave, a suburb of Melbourne. However, the Angels soon discovered the distinctive bad smell caused by manufacturing amphetamines attracted too much attention. Hill rented a house called Greenslopes in a rural area outside of the village of Wattle Glen. Hill and his team could cook about five pounds of amphetamines in about 24 hours. Hill covered the windows with black plastic garbage bags and sealed the doors. The fumes from cooking amphetamines were so toxic that the chrome on the fans that he installed inside were all eaten away. Hill and the others had to wear gas masks for their protection. The price for 1 pound of amphetamines was $10, 000 Australian dollars, but as the demand was huge, Hill soon raised his price to $12, 000 Australian dollars per 1 pound. To increase his production, Hill replaced his fiver-litre reactor vessel with twenty-litre reactor vessel, which allowed him to substantially increase production. Hill reduced the purity of his amphetamines "out of greed" as he put it from 66% to 50% by diluting it with sugar.