Notorious ex-London gangster Dave Courtney tragically took his own life with a firearm today (Sunday, October 22).
Police and the London Ambulance Service were called to his home, also known ‘Camelot Castle’, in the early hours of this morning. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The 64-year-old converted the former school into a white mansion and decked it out with guns, swords, suits of armour, images of the late Queen, and a bust of his own head.
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It also boasts a nightclub and a sex dungeon – where adult films were shot. Courtney, who led a wild life, previously admitted he had starred in a porn film and his wife found out on their wedding night.
During an interview on the Eventful Entrepreneur podcast, Courtney joked about how he wanted to become a sex symbol, leading him to star in the X-rated production. The plans were set in motion after becoming friendly with the producer while working in security.
He said at the time: “I was going, ‘Wow man, I’d love to make a blue scene’. He went, ‘You want to make a blue film man? It’s the easiest f***ing thing in the world; Go over there and get an aids test, and in 45 minutes you can come back here and you’ll be s******g whatever bird you want for the next hour and a half.”
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He agreed after being promised the movie would only appear on hotel porn channels, so no one he knew would see it. Until his honeymoon, in a hotel, when his wife saw it.
The pair had eloped spontaneously in the US and happened to stay in the hotel chain that the movie had been sold to.
Mr Courtney added: “I’ve been married for six hours, she’s put on the porn channel – you can laugh – and all of a sudden it went, ‘Dave Courtney English gangster in…’ And I’m trying to dive on to the bed to grab the television control, but the bed’s too big, and it’s a water bed so it’s vibrating.
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“And there it is, me, in a blue film on my wedding night in the hotel.”
Mr Courtney, who was born in Bermondsey but lived in Plumstead, was a member of the Richardson Gang. He has written six books about his delinquent past and was reportedly the inspiration behind Vinnie Jones' character Big Chris in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
The self-proclaimed ex-gangster had been shot, stabbed, had his nose bitten off then reattached, and killed to stay alive, according to his website.
Alongside his title of “the hardest man in Britain”, he was also known as the “yellow pages of the Underworld”.
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