Essex Boys

The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the murders of three top drug barons in Rettendon, Essex, UK. On 6 December, Patrick Tate, Craig Rolfe and Tony Tucker, three drug dealers well known to the police, were lured to Workhouse Lane, Rettendon. There they were blasted to death with a shotgun in the head while sitting in their Range Rover. They had been lured to their deaths on the pretext of a lucrative drug deal. The bodies of Tate, 37, Rolfe, 26 and Tucker, 38, were found the following morning, 7 December 1995.

Two men, Jack Whomes and Michael Steele, were convicted of the offence after police informer Darren Nicholls gave evidence against his former friends at their Old Bailey trial. They have always protested their innocence.