The Fall of the Essex Boys is a 2013 British gangster thriller film based on the true story of the Rettendon murders in 1995.
[citation needed] On a boat in the North Sea, three men are importing drugs into Essex: Mickey Steele, Darren Nicholls and Jack Whomes.
It is revealed by Nicholls, who serves as the film's narrator, that the three men are suppliers to an Essex-based drug dealer named Tony Tucker.
Tucker, his right-hand man Craig Rolfe and the psychotic Patrick "Pat" Tate serve as the three core members of the Essex boys.
The gang grows progressively in stature until a girl falls into a coma and later dies after taking a "pure" ecstasy pill.
They then recruit former associate of Carmichael, Ronnie Walsh, who is described as psychopathic and "would eat your face for a fiver and a gram of coke".