The family of a violent gangster who was the prime suspect in the mysterious death of a London teenager which has sparked a best-selling book and forthcoming major TV adaptation have spoken for the first time.
Zac Brettler, 19, jumped from the fifth floor of a luxury riverside apartment building and was found dead in the Thames six years ago – while notorious gangland enforcer Verinder Sharma, known as ‘Indian Dave’ was the only person present.
The mystery surrounding the death of the middle-class public schoolboy from Maida Vale is explored in a new publishing sensation, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in
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