User blog comment:12345B/PE Proposal: Bill Sykes/@comment-24758512-20190827004829

I'll give him a no. He is generic mob boss and doesn't do nothing out of normal of his career as a crime boss, all he did was for money alone (including his child abuse on Jenny), that is nothing fairly new for crime lords like Bill Sykes. To qualify in the category he would need something else in mind to stand up and break his already-expected career as crime boss.

Even more so, he honored his deals with his clients and even gave Fagin three days to pay his debt, something that not even common crime lords would do when their clients failed them, extending what his calls "mercy" when such thing was NOT necessary. That alone is powerful mitigating factor. He precisely says to Fagin their "account is closed" when he kidnaps Jenny, forgiving his previous failures. He may be the most vile character in the setting but is far away from being a PE.