Gangster Dave Courtney had 3 course meal earlier than firearm loss of life in fortress house

A infamous ex-gangster who tragically took his personal life with a firearm yesterday had a lavish three-course meal hours earlier than the grim occasion.

Dave Courtney, 64, was a member of the infamous Richardson gang primarily based in south Long within the Nineteen Sixties. Rivalling the notorious Kray Firm, it was concerned in all the pieces from drug dealing to hijacking, and unlawful playing to gun-running and prostitution.

And in keeping with his personal testimonies over time, he had been shot, stabbed, had his nostril bitten off then reattached, and killed others to be able to keep alive – however his final moments have now been revealed.

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Just hours earlier than Courtney took his personal stay, he was watching Charlton Athletic beat Reading 4-1 in League One, and was having fun with the “full works” of a three-course meal within the hospitality suite at Charlton’s Valley Ground in London. He posted footage of himself there on social media . . . however he was useless just some hours later, and was, in keeping with sources, discovered with a pillow “placed across his face and had been shot in the head”.

Police and the London Ambulance Service had been known as to his house, additionally recognized Camelot Castle, within the early hours of yesterday morning, the place he was pronounced useless on the scene, with a police investigation into the “unexpected death” underway. The 64-year-old transformed the previous faculty right into a white mansion and decked it out with weapons, swords, fits of armour, photographs of the late Queen, and a bust of his personal head.

It additionally boasts a nightclub and a intercourse dungeon – the place grownup movies had been shot. Courtney, who led a wild life, beforehand admitted he had starred in a porn movie and his spouse came upon on their wedding ceremony night time. Neighbour Sheila Wellcome, 68, instructed numerous information retailers: “I noticed Dave at round 8pm final night time he appeared in good spirits after going to the Charlton match together with his mates.

“I handed him a cigarette over the wall an hour later and he was laughing and joking, then mentioned he was drained and going to go to mattress. Then I acquired a name this morning from his good friend Brendan, who lives with him, saying Dave has been shot and is useless, and the police additionally instructed me he’d died.

“We knew Dave was in a lot of pain, and he was suffering with terrible arthritis – he could barely roll a cigarette, but he seemed happy. I just can’t believe I’m never going to see him again. It’s so sad.”

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