Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood wants the Parole Board to reconsider the release of the convicted triple killer.

Shabana Mahmood is calling on the Parole Board to reconsider releasing Michael Steele, who was given a life sentence in 1998 ...

The killings were immortalised in the 2000 film Essex Boys, which starred Sean Bean and coined the name. Also inspired by the murders was the crime and gangster film franchise Rise of the Footsoldier, ...

The killings took place after a row over a drug deal, prosecutors said, and the case later inspired the 2000 film Essex Boys, starring Sean Bean. Last month, a Parole Board panel decided to free ...

A group of minors has been charged for their involvement in a violent assault on another minor in County, according to police ...

Former Met detective David McKelvey said Michael Steele and Jack Whomes, who were jailed for life after being convicted of ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has intervened to try to prevent the release of a convicted triple killer who was jailed for the Essex Boys murders ...

The convictions of the two so-called Essex Boys murderers are being reviewed again, the BBC can reveal. Jack Whomes and Michael Steele were given life sentences in 1998 for shooting dead Craig Rolfe, ...

A man convicted of the so-called Essex Boys murders will be released from prison on licence, the Parole Board has said.

The Parole Board said there had been a "marked improvement" in Michael Steele's behaviour and keeping him locked up was no longer necessary to protect the public.

The case soon became referred to as the Essex Boys murders, and became the subject of countless TV dramas, films, documentaries and books, which examined its links to other high profile homicides ...