Two films and numerous books have attempted to tell the shocking story
of two of Britain s most ruthless gangs. For 20 years, the Essex Boys
firm and their successors, the New Generation, controlled a lucrative
drugs empire in Essex and throughout the south east of England by using
intimidation, gratuitous violence, and murder. Rampaging through the
streets and clubland, they destroyed anything and anybody that dared to
get in their way. Eventually torn apart by greed and paranoia, the gang
members became victims of their own vile trade and hate-filled actions.
Pat Tate, Tony Tucker, and Craig Rolfe were all blasted repeatedly with
a shotgun as they sat in their Range Rover down a remote farm track.
Dean Boshell was lured to allotments, then beaten and shot
execution-style three times through the head. Others, such as Darren
Nicholls and Damon Alvin, turned Super Grass and disappeared into the
witness protection scheme never to be seen again, while three other men
are in prison serving life sentences. Steve "Nipper" Ellis is the last
man standing, the only member to have survived the bloody reign of both
gangs. Here he tells his shocking story for the first time, and reveals
just how close he came to being both murderer and murder victim."
