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6 unusual facts about Essex Boys


Dartford Crossing

The bridge has been featured briefly in the British films Four Weddings and a Funeral, Essex Boys, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.

Essex Boys

There they were killed by shotgun blasts to the head while sitting in their Range Rover.

The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the murders of two top drug barons and their driver in Rettendon, Essex, UK.

Jaywick

Some of the scenes in the gangster movie Essex Boys were filmed in the Brooklands area of Jaywick.

Jeff Pope

Among Pope's television writing credits are Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery (1992), The Place Of The Dead (1997), Essex Boys (2000), Bob Martin (2000), Dirty Filthy Love (2004), Christmas Lights (2004), Pierrepoint (2005), Northern Lights (2006), City Lights (2007), and The Fattest Man in Britain (2009).

Rettendon murders

The films Essex Boys, starring Sean Bean, Rise of the Footsoldier, Bonded by Blood and The Fall of the Essex Boys are all based – to varying degrees – on the crime.


Holly Davidson

She is most known for her recurring roles on the TV series' Renford Rejects, The Bill and Casualty, and roles in the films Final Cut, Van Wilder 2: Rise of the Taj and Essex Boys.


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Bernard O'Mahoney

It also tells of the notorious three "Essex Boys" drug dealers who terrorised Essex with drug dealing and violence during the early to mid-1990s before they were found shot dead in a Range Rover in December 1995.