Another strange death in the UK linked to Russian 'Ring of Death' hit squad

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A lawyer who was close friends with impaled tycoon Scot Young spoke of his fear for his life just days before he died in a mysterious helicopter crash.

Stephen Curtis was killed in the crash a mile from Bournemouth Airport in 2004, but the family of the pilot say the Russian government is to blame.

Just a week before he died, Mr Curtis, 45, told a friend: 'If anything happens to me in the next few weeks, it will not be an accident.'

Mr Curtis becomes the sixth member of the mysterious 'ring of death' that has emerged since Mr Young died in a fall from his London penthouse on Monday.

Last night relatives of the pilot who also died in the horrific crash told The Sun that they suspect Russians working for President Vladimir Putin were involved.

Scotland Yard said there were no suspicious circumstances at the time and referred the deaths of Mr Curtis and pilot Max Radford, 34, to a coroner, who ruled he lost his bearings in torrid weather.

Mr Radford's mother, Gloria, 72, said: 'It was no pilot error - that is balderdash.'

She said that father-of-one Mr Curtis, who owned the £1.5million aircraft, was working for Russian oil oligarch and Putin foe Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

She added: 'I know Putin wanted these oligarchs because they got so much of the country's money.

'Stephen Curtis was helping them to get their money invested in the tax havens.'

Last Edited by Uncle Paul on 12/13/2014 12:37 PM