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One of the men convicted of the “Essex Boys” gangland murders can be freed from prison, the Parole Board has said. Jack Whomes was jailed for life in 1998 alongside Michael Steele for the murders of Tony Tucker, Pat Tate, and Craig Rolfe. The three men were found shot dead in a Range Rover in Rettendon, near Chelmsford, Essex, in 1995. The killings took place after a row over a drug deal, prosecutors said, and the case later inspired the 2000 film Essex Boys starring Sean Bean. Jack Whomes was handed a life sentence in 1998 (PA) A Parole Board panel decided 59-year-old Whomes – who stil...

One of the men convicted of the “Essex Boys” gangland murders can be freed from prison, the Parole Board has said. Jack Whomes was jailed for life in 1998 alongside Michael Steele for the murders of Tony Tucker, Pat Tate, and Craig Rolfe. The three men were found shot dead in a Range Rover in Rettendon, near Chelmsford, Essex, in 1995. The killings took place after a row over a drug deal, prosecutors said, and the case later inspired the 2000 film Essex Boys starring Sean Bean. Jack Whomes was handed a life sentence in 1998 (PA) A Parole Board panel decided 59-year-old Whomes – who stil...

Share Whomes will have to follow strict licence conditions which ban him from visiting the relatives of the victims and will have to inform the authorities of any driving he does, Essex News and Investigations reports. He will also have to report to his probation officer for meetings. Patrick Tate, 37, Anthony Tucker, 38, and Craig Rolfe, 26, were killed with a pump-action shotgun after their vehicle was ambushed in December 1995. Tate sustained injuries to the head and body, while Rolfe and Tucker died from head wounds.   All three of the victims were discovered in the vehicle by two far...

One of the men convicted of the “Essex Boys” gangland murders can be freed from prison, the Parole Board has said. Jack Whomes was jailed for life in 1998 alongside Michael Steele for the murders of Tony Tucker, Pat Tate, and Craig Rolfe. The three men were found shot dead in a Range Rover in Rettendon, near Chelmsford, Essex, in 1995. The killings took place after a row over a drug deal, prosecutors said, and the case later inspired the 2000 film Essex Boys starring Sean Bean. Jack Whomes was handed a life sentence in 1998 (PA) A Parole Board panel decided 59-year-old Whomes – who stil...

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...