Tributes have been paid to former gangster turned actor Dave Courtney, who has died aged 64.
The actor, who claimed to be an affiliate of ’60s gangland criminals the Krays, was discovered at his dwelling in Plumstead, South East London on Sunday (October 22) after reportedly dying by suicide.
The Metropolitan Police have mentioned his loss of life is at the moment being handled as sudden and is underneath investigation.
His household paid tribute to his “unbelievable, vibrant, rock ‘n’ roll life” and the way he had skilled the “ache of each most cancers and arthritis in his later years”.
In a press release posted on his Instagram account, the household wrote: “On October 22 2023, Dave made the choice to ‘cease the experience’.
“He had lived an unbelievable, vibrant, rock ‘n’ roll life wherein he touched the hearts of so many. The bodily ache of residing the life-style he selected, particularly as a result of ache of each most cancers and arthritis in his later years, grew to become an excessive amount of.”
Thanks to all those that have introduced floral tributes up to now. They imply a lot to Dave’s household. pic.twitter.com/gAH9LWsP85
— Dave Courtney OBE Official (@davecourtney666) October 23, 2023
Courtney was rumoured to be the inspiration behind Vinnie Jones’s character “Huge Chris” in Man Ritchie’s gangster movie Lock, Inventory, And Two Smoking Barrels.
Courtney swapped his gangster life to change into an writer and actor, publishing six books, and starring in a movie known as Hell To Pay.
“I’ll have been a bit naughty after I was a younger man,” Courtney instructed BBC London final yr. The phrase gangster is a really historic phrase. It’s a romantic determine of the previous, gangsters, like knights in shining armour, cowboys, pirates, gangsters.
“As we speak positively is just not the time to attempt to be a gangster… you’re attempting to beat expertise and you may’t try this.”
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