Dave Courtney knocked out two thugs this year despite arthritis hell

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Sixty to 70 decommissioned, blank and fake firearms, mainly used as gangster film props, were also seized by police.
Mr McGirr said he was not allowed to return to the property for a further two days after police evacuated the street after finding two ornaments made from old hand grenades.

They also investigated the discovery of some animal bones found in an underground area, he said. Mr McGirr said Mr Courtney developed arthritis after an earlier fight in Morecambe, where the former criminal was doing one of his meet and greet shows in 2015.

Before the show Mr Courtney was approached by a “big Polish man” who said to him “Don’t talk gangster, show me gangster.”
Mr McGirr said Mr Courtney feared the aggressor was going to upset the show and possibly attack him, so he waited until he went to the toilet then followed him in before saying he was there to “show him gangster”.

Mr Courtney is then said to have beaten the man so badly his head had to be stitched up and one of his teeth got wedged in his knuckle.
This caused blood poisoning that required antibiotics, which triggered arthritis, according to Mr McGirr. At the end of the YouTube video, a short video recording addressed to Mr McGirr, made by Mr Courtney was also played.

The famous former gangster – who is said to have inspired Vinnie Jones’s Big Chris character in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – was cremated in a private ceremony earlier this month.

In the short video, Mr Courtney said to Brendan he did not want to compete with the massive funerals held for fellow London gangsters, such as the Kray twins.

Mr Courtney had been involved in security for Ronnie Kray’s funeral in October 2000. He said in the clip: “Alright Brendan. I’ve left you in charge of everything. I have been in charge of, and run the biggest f***ing naughty boy funeral the country’s ever had, with three quarters of a million people at it. And half a mile long car train – I don’t want to compete.

“I want to have one where I don’t have a funeral, I just come home in a box one day. My wish is, I’m not going to have a funeral, please believe me, they’ll remember that more than any funeral I did get together – that’s cool, that’s f***ing cool”.

A date for the full inquest has yet to be set as results of toxicology tests are still awaited.

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