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2 unusual facts about Rettendon murders


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.

Friend of the victims, and only surviving member of the main alliance, Carlton Leach now lives in Essex and has written and talked about the murders and his memory of his late associates.


Carlton Leach

Three of the gang, Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe, would eventually meet an abrupt and bloody end in December 1995, when they were shot to death in a Range Rover on a farm track in Rettendon, in what are known as the Rettendon Triple Murders.

Murder of Rachel Nickell

In 1996, despite Justice Ognall's previous criticism of "Operation Ezdell", Essex Police mounted a similar operation, "Operation Century", as part of their investigation of the "Rettendon Triple Murders" case.


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