1992 Court Case
In 1992, McLean was working as the head doorman at the The Hippodrome in London's Leicester Square, when he ejected a man named Gary Humphries who was reportedly on drugs, streaking through the nightclub and harassing women and urinating on the floor. McLean admitted to "giving him a backhander." Humphries died later that night and was found to have a broken jawbone and severe neck injuries.
McLean was arrested for the murder of Gary Humphries by the same policeman who had caught the Kray twins, Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read. McLean immediately protested his innocence, and claimed the police had a vendetta against him because of his association with the Krays.
McLean's charge was reduced to manslaughter, of which he was cleared at the Old Bailey when it emerged that Humphries had been in a scuffle with the police after being ejected from the nightclub. Reportedly, the police had forcefully restrained him with a stranglehold. Professor Gresham, a pathologist who had worked on many high-profile murder cases, gave evidence that the stranglehold applied by the police probably caused the neck injuries which probably caused Mr Humphries' death.
However, it was determined that McLean was responsible for Humphries' broken jaw, and McLean served an 18 month prison sentence for grievous bodily harm.
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