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Updated: 5:33 PM March 7, 2021 Jack Whomes has been freed from prison after serving 23 years for the Essex Boys murders - Credit: Johnny Green/PA We can all get on with our lives now - these were the words of John Whomes today after his brother Jack, jailed over the Essex Boys murders, was released from prison to live in Suffolk, Jack Whomes was sentenced in 1998, alongside Michael Steele, for the murders of three men found shot dead in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex, in 1995. Prosecutors said the killings of Tony Tucker, Pat Tate, and Craig Rolfe took place after a row over a drug deal. The case later inspired the 2000 film, Essex Boys. ....
Updated: 5:33 PM March 7, 2021 Jack Whomes has been freed from prison after serving 23 years for the Essex Boys murders - Credit: Johnny Green/PA We can all get on with our lives now - these were the words of John Whomes today after his brother Jack, jailed over the Essex Boys murders, was released from prison to live in Suffolk, Jack Whomes was sentenced in 1998, alongside Michael Steele, for the murders of three men found shot dead in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex, in 1995. Prosecutors said the killings of Tony Tucker, Pat Tate, and Craig Rolfe took place after a row over a drug deal. The case later inspired the 2000 film, Essex Boys. ....
Prosecutors said the killings took place over a drug deal and the case was dramatised in the 2000 film Essex Boys, starring Sean Bean. Whomes, now 59, was handed a life sentence with a minimum of 25 years before being eligible for parole after being convicted of murdering the trio. However, he saw his sentence reduced by two years in 2018 after the High Court ruled he had made exceptional progress in jail. Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe, who were found dead in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex - Credit: Essex Police In the same year, it emerged the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) was reviewing new evidence related to the case after a fresh appeal was launched. ....
Prosecutors said the killings took place over a drug deal and the case was dramatised in the 2000 film Essex Boys, starring Sean Bean. Whomes, now 59, was handed a life sentence with a minimum of 25 years before being eligible for parole after being convicted of murdering the trio. However, he saw his sentence reduced by two years in 2018 after the High Court ruled he had made exceptional progress in jail. Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe, who were found dead in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex - Credit: Essex Police In the same year, it emerged the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) was reviewing new evidence related to the case after a fresh appeal was launched. ....