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Published: 3:51 PM March 7, 2021    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 Rol...

Published: 3:51 PM March 7, 2021    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 Rol...

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...

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...

BBC News Published image captionJack Whomes was jailed for life in 1998 for the Essex Boys murders A triple killer convicted of the notorious "Essex Boys" farmland murders is to be released from jail. Jack Whomes, 59, was given a life sentence in 1998 for the execution of three men whose Range Rover had been ambushed in Rettendon in December 1995. He maintains his innocence and in 2018 saw his minimum term cut from 25 to just over 22 years for "exemplary" behaviour behind bars. A Parole Board spokesman confirmed a panel had directed Whomes' release. In one of Britain's most notorious ganglan...