King Courtney

King Courtney is the leader of the Jamaican gang known as Yardies. He assigns missions to Claude in GTA III and Mike in GTA Advance.

Story
Their first encounter takes place after the death of Jonnie, Courtney is confronted by Mike. King Courtney denies the accusations and claims that he also wants to find the person who killed Jonnie. exchange for his services, Courtney agrees to find the murderer of Mike's friend Vinnie. Mike kills him and steals his money, not before being warned that people will go after him for the money.

Mike finds out about the hit from Cisco's successor and the arrest of Mike's friend 8-Ball. Mike wipes out the hit men before asking for Asuka Kasen to assist in the assault of the Yardies warehouse. A violent fire fight ensues and Mike comes dangerously close to killing him before Courtney begins to beg for life. Suddenly a police raid begins (which Courtney seems to have eluded) and Mike flees Liberty City. He is never seen in person in GTA III. King Courtney assigns Claude jobs from Staunton Island, operating from a payphone located near Liberty Campus. The primary focus of his jobs are mostly related to attacks against rival gangs, with one of these mission requiring that Claude turn his back against the Diablos by killing several of its members. The final "job" involved Claude being lured into a trap, where Catalina has dispatched vans of "SPANK-ed up madmen" suicide bombers to kill Claude.