Barbara Windsor's ex husband Ronnie Knight has died
Zomparelli pleaded self-defence and was jailed for four years - but was shot dead soon after his release in Soho's Golden Goose arcade.
Knight stood trial for Zomparelli's murder after the hitman George Bradshaw claimed the nightclub boss had paid him £1,000 to kill David's killer.The gangster revealed in 1998 that he had hired hitman Nicky Gerard to kill Zomparelli - but could not be tried again under double jeopardy rules, and later denied involvement once again.Sensing that his luck was running out in Soho, in 1975 Knight built a bolt-hole in Fuengirola, Spain.
He fled there as a fugitive in January 1984, on the night his brother John was arrested following the armed robbery of almost £6million from a Security Express depot in Shoreditch.moneyKnight married Sue Haylock in 1987 after he and Windsor divorced, and ran an Indian restaurant named Mumtaz and the violent nightclub RKnights during his long exile.
But his stash of money gradually ran out, and in 1994 he chose to return to Britain to face justice for his role in the Security Express heist.Knight was released from
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