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Celebrity gangster Dave Courtney's son is executed in Greenwich.

TopCat said:
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Plumstead residents must love having the ugly fat fucker nearby.
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:eek:
 
Correct, I asked all of them and they all had a sense of humour, which isn't a surprise when you consider the houses on the street they live down.
 
IIRC there's a connection between Dave Courtney and the #phonehacking scandal that's closed down the News Of The World - wasn't he acquitted by the same court that sent down bent private eye Jonathan Rees and the bent cop DC Austin Warnes with whom he conspired to plant coke in the car of a woman on behalf of her estranged husband who was trying to have her fitted up to prevent her getting custody of their kids?

 
Here's a report from the trial back in 2000 from The Guardian:

A corrupt detective and a police informer helped frame a model as a cocaine dealer to ensure she lost custody of her child during divorce proceedings, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

Kim James, a part-time model and fitness instructor, might have been jailed for drugs dealing if the conspiracy had not been detected through a police surveillance device at the offices of a private investigation agency, said Bruce Houlder QC, prosecuting.

Mrs James was involved in divorce proceedings against her husband, Simon. The drugs find was designed to get her arrested and then discredited in child custody proceedings over their two-year-old son, Mr Houlder said.

Simon James recruited the help of Jonathan Rees, head of the private detective agency Law and Commercial. The drugs were placed in Mrs James's Fiat Punto car by another man, James Cook, the prosecution said.

Austin Warnes, a detective constable, allegedly was also brought into the plot and used his registered police informant, Dave Courtney, to persuade a senior officer that the information about the drugs was genuine. Warnes, 38, of Bexleyheath, south London, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice between May and September last year, the jury was told.
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Note that the conspiracy to frame Kim James might have succeeded "had [it] not been detected through a police surveillance device at the offices of a private investigation agency".

Then note this from another Guardian report a couple of years later:

Tabloid journalists were caught on tape by a police surveillance operation obtaining information from a private detective agency which in turn paid corrupt officers for confidential police material.

Transcripts record reporters from the News of the World, Mirror and Sunday Mirror doing business with Jonathon Rees, whose company, Southern Investigations, was being secretly bugged.

…Alex Marunchak, of the News of the World, is identified by the transcripts as a lucrative customer of the agency...

…The Mirror was another client…

…the story appeared in the Mirror under reporter Gary Jones's byline…

…Doug Kempster of the Sunday Mirror also obtained stories from the agency.
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As the report explains, this was discovered during "Operation Nigeria, the surveillance of Southern Investigations between May and September 1999, was run by the Metropolitan police's anti-corruption squad CIB3" - an operation that was closed down after the Kim James/Jonathan Rees scheme was turned up, and Rees, Warnes and James gaoled. The report additionally names another "corrupt [then] serving detective, Tom Kingston - later jailed for drug theft."

Operation Nigeria, lest we forget, was, as a subsequent report characterised it, another attempt by the Met to dig into the circumstances of the murder of Daniel Morgan.

One of CIB's principal targets was Jonathon Rees, Morgan's former partner who continued to run Southern Investigations after the murder.
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The article goes on to say:

"Rees and [others] have for a number of years been involved in the long-term penetration of police intelligence sources," one progress report stated. "They have ensured that they have live sources within the Metropolitan Police Service and have sought to recruit sources within other police forces. Their thirst for knowledge is driven by profit to be accrued from the media..."
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The nexus between bent cops, criminal private eyes and shady hacks is repeatedly pointed out:

…ex-Detective Constable Duncan Hanrahan, who ran his own private investigation company, Hanrahan Associates, with another former DC, Martin King, who was later jailed for corruption…

…Rees also talks about having sold a story to a reporter. The intelligence he sold concerned Kenneth Noye, the notorious criminal then being held at Belmarsh top security prison, following extradition from Spain to face trial for the M25 road rage murder. Rees says he provided information about how GCHQ was involved in tracking down Noye. He also claims to have given a reporter information about what he calls "personal services" being provided to Noye in Belmarsh…

A serving police officer was passing information to Rees about the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe…

The investigation has so far identified a serving police officer who has supplied confidential information and private investigators who can supply phone and bank accounts details of any person…

In another telephone conversation, Rees tells a Sunday newspaper reporter that he is obtaining information about the former Chilean dictator, General Pinochet, then under house arrest in Surrey, pending an extradition hearing.

Into the frame in May came a serving police officer, DC Tom Kingston, from the elite South East Regional Crime Squad. At that time he was suspended, awaiting trial with other corrupt officers over the theft of 2kg of amphetamine powder from a drugs dealer. Later found guilty, he was sent to prison...

In a telephone call on the same day to another detective agency run by a former police officer, Rees discusses newspaper editors wanting information to expose top people. During an incoming call, Rees discusses a story involving a major TV and radio personality.

…Rees says he knows how one paper is obtaining information about the police investigation into her murder, and explains that he is trying to do the same. "There's big stories... nearly every day with good information on the Jill Dando murder. We found out one of our bestest friends is also on that fucking murder squad, but he ain't told us nothing. We only found out yesterday after that torrent of abuse we initially gave him. He's going to phone us today."

Rees tells a caller that he's owed £12,000 by one tabloid, and more money by another. What he or Southern had provided to these newspapers is not made clear. In telephone conversations two days later Rees discusses delivering a bag containing a hidden camera to one tabloid, and in July he says he is also owed £12,000 by that paper...

…No journalist was charged over dealings with Southern Investigations.
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etc etc etc

There's shitloads of this!
 
I love Courtney's defence against the YOU FUCKIN' GRARRRSS insult, as reported by the irritatingly purple prose pusher, The Observer's crime reporter Tony Thompson in this post-Operation Nigeria trial report from 2000:

At the Old Bailey trial, Courtney revealed that, far from being an informant, he had been involved in a '100 per cent corrupt' relationship with Warnes for 15 years which involved recruiting fake informants, obtaining information from the police computer and sabotaging numerous court cases.
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'I wasn't a tout, I merely had an honest corrupt relationship exchanging info for money with a bent cop.'

:D
 
Transcripts of the evidence given by DI Michael Latham, a copper at Bexley Heath police station who had responsibility for registered informants, to the trial of Warnes, Courtney etc, is available from Bernard O'Mahoney's website.

In it he talks of requesting a meet with 'Tommy Mack' (Courtney) via his handler, DC Warnes. The meeting went ahead, and Courtney signed a contract - "terms and conditions between police and informants".
 
DaveCinzano said:
Or 'informally evicted' tenants and squatters on behalf of slum landlords, rackrenters & Rachmanites.
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yup , seen him doing that on tv once . What a twat, was my reaction at the time . How does he get away with it was my next reaction . Must be a grass was my conclusion .
 
DaveCinzano said:
Transcripts of the evidence given by DI Michael Latham, a copper at Bexley Heath police station who had responsibility for registered informants, to the trial of Warnes, Courtney etc, is available from Bernard O'Mahoney's website.

In it he talks of requesting a meet with 'Tommy Mack' (Courtney) via his handler, DC Warnes. The meeting went ahead, and Courtney signed a contract - "terms and conditions between police and informants".
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the guys been openly boasting about his criminal activity for years and promoting himself as a violent criminal , while living a comfortable lifestyle - in a mock castle- instead of going to jail. Of course he's a fucking grass .
 
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