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David John Courtney (born 17 February 1959) is an English self-proclaimed former gangster who has become both an author and celebrity.Author Bernard O'Mahoney and Frankie Fraser (the former member of the Richardson gang) have accused Courtney of embellishing and fabricating his criminal record and position in the underworld; however, Courtney has denied overstating his past.Courtney was born in Bermondsey, London to Teresa (née Dargan) and Patrick W J Courtney, who married in 1954 in Camberwell.Courtney often focuses on his links with gangsters such as Reggie Kray and Lenny McLean, although in the case of the former, he was nine years old when Kray was imprisoned. Courtney has claimed to have been shot, stabbed, had his nose bitten off, and stated that he has had to kill to stay alive himself. He makes the claim that his involvement in a car crash on the M20 was an attempt by "someone who had a grudge against him" to kill him. Wikipedia
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