Dressed in a sharp white suit and knuckle dusters, for a long time Dave Courtney was the archetype of the east London gangster.
Making a name for himself through his (sometimes spurious) affiliation with other famous East End hardmen such as the Krays, Roy Shaw and Lenny McLean, Courtney became one of Britain’s best-known gangsters, before pivoting from a life of crime to enter the world of film and writing.
