DEATH plunge property tycoon Scot Young once worked for a pub boss found drowned in Majorca.
Young died on December 8 after he fell 60ft on to railings from his London penthouse flat.
We can reveal that Young was a friend and associate of wealthy Dundee licensee Alex Brown, 60, whose body was found near his luxury yacht in Port de Soller on the Spanish holiday island in 2006.
Though his cause of death was given as drowning, police also probed claims from Brown’s family that he may have been murdered after he was seen arguing with a man on the harbour’s edge.
The publican is among six former Young associates who have died in mysterious circumstances the past 10 years.
Brown, a former casino manager with Reo Stakis, ran some of Dundee’s most successful pubs and clubs in the 80s and 90s, including McGonagall’s, Cafe American and Jacques nightclub.
Little was known about Young, 52, until his wife Michelle launched a £400million divorce action against him in 2009.
But an investigation by the Sunday Mail has uncovered details of his early life in Dundee – including his links to Brown.
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Young is said to have worked for Brown in his pub business in the early to mid 80s and lived in a flat – owned by Brown – above McGonagall’s in the city.
He was born in Dundee in 1962 and left Kirkton High School at 16 with no qualifications.
One prominent Dundee businessman – who knew Young but asked not to be named – said: “He enjoyed hanging about with older businessmen like Brown in the city and picking their brains.
“As far as I know he never had a job but he was never short of money. I think he was the gofer type who would be used by Brown for various tasks.”
Brown, who ran a bar called the Cafe Pacific in Majorca, also had a dark side.
He once escaped attempted murder charges after pulling a shotgun on a stranger in Dundee after a drunken argument. Several of his pubs caught fire and he was made bankrupt in 1994.
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Released from bankruptcy in 2000, he moved to Spain. At the time of his death, the island’s police insisted there were no suspicious circumstances.
But his family persuaded authorities to allow a second post mortem after reports of the heated row on the quayside with a mystery man, which led to the case being reopened. However six months later it was ruled that he had died from accidental drowning.
Scotland Yard insist Young’s death is not suspicious but it has emerged that at least another five of his friends have died in mysterious circumstances.
Lawyer Stephen Curtis was killed when his new helicopter crashed in 2004. Curtis was an associate of oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who also died in mysterious circumstances last year.
Johnny Elichaoff, 55, fell to his death from a shopping centre last month. Robert Curtis, 47, and Paul Castle, 54, fell to their deaths under Tube trains in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
At the time of his death, Young was in an on/off relationship with reality TV star Noelle Reno.