Essex Boys 2000

Stars: Charlie Creed-Miles, Sean Bean, Gareth Milne

Release Date: 14 July 2000 (UK)

Alternative name: Gangsters - The Essex Boys

Country: UK

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Description: The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the murders of three drug dealers in Rettendon, Essex, UK. On 6th 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 shot gun while sitting in their Range Rover. They had been lured to their deaths on the pretext of a lucrative drugs deal. The three bodies were found the following morning, 7 December 1995.