Winners at the 6th annual National Film Awards UK 2021". National Film Awards . Retrieved 2 July 2021. My policy was always to be a bit careful over what I said. If it was serious stuff, the kind of things they didn’t need to know about, I’d play it close to my chest. With Denny and Lynn I had two of the most loyal women you could ever wish for. But I still had to play around. Not because I didn’t love them – and I did love them equally – but because I was driven by this terrible sexual urge that came from using steroids month after month and I couldn’t keep my hands off other women. Having read a lot of gangster books, this one has stayed in my mind for a number of reasons. It is one of those that tries to make the author appear as the last of the tough guys. It kind of reminds me of John Alite's biographies. However, unlike Alite's books, I actually believe most of Leach's stories. It is also a desperate attempt to rehabilitate the Essex Boys Gang. Lastly, he shamelessly sells his movie and his current "muscle business" - a thinly veiled concept of rent-a-thug. The book jumps around as Leach goes on different tangents, and yet everything does come together. Despite his gratuitous use of colorful language I get the impression that he spent a great deal of time writing this book. In that sense, a thieves' honor seems to permeate the book. The first film – 2007’s Rise of the Footsoldier – was based on the memoir by Carlton Leach, about his journey from football hooligan to Essex Boys associate. A fifth installment, Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins, hits on September 3. The series is so popular that it’s jumping from straight-to-DVD to cinema screens.

You go on the internet and there are groups with thousands of people talking about it,” says Nevern. “The films, the murders, the Rise of the Footsoldier. It’s crazy that it’s so fascinating.” After the murder, I had to change my life. It was a wake-up call - to realise I had a mum and dad and a family. When I saw how it affected them and my life, I realised I had to grow up." When a collective fascination with the macabre enters this kind of micro level, it has long stopped being about a search for truth, and becomes a stab at control, about finding the answers that have been “kept from us”. Outside of this true crime ecosystem, the appeal of the Rise of the Footsoldier franchise to previously naughty former ravers and younger kids who have a nostalgic fascination for their 90s glory days is obvious. In my case, there was one simple reason why I never involved my wife or any of my long-term partners in my business activities – they would be far too vulnerable. One sure way for an enemy to hurt you hard would be to go for your wife. If you keep her away from the danger zone, she’s not going to be susceptible. If she’s up front, part of your business world, she’s in danger. If you were on the door at a busy club, she’d be a big distraction because you’d always be looking out for her and not doing your job properly At home with the kids she’s safe. I know it sounds chauvinistic, but it’s practical.

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Tate even threatened his own mother. She carried around a note pointing police towards him in case anything happened to her while she was out walking the dog.

For all the talk of “truth” in relation to the Essex Boys, there is precious little about it that feels definitive. Perhaps it is the murkiness of the narrative that has made the genre last so long, with the case still pored over by true crime YouTube channels positing outlandish theories (there’s even a documentary about what’s happened to the Range Rover since). a b "Winners at the 4th annual National Film Awards UK 2019". National Film Awards . Retrieved 29 March 2018.

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Equally, women have the capability of inflicting great damage. There never was a truer saying than ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.’

They think they want to be like those gangsters, but it doesn't necessarily mean you have a great life. The Essex Boys have spawned more than 10 films – a sub- sub-genre in their own right – usually built around the same money shot: the dramatic recreation of the Essex Boys murders. Find sources: "Carlton Leach"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)O’Mahoney says what Nevern gets right is portraying the Essex Boys trio as “failures”. “People think we drove around in Porsches, had beautiful girlfriends, and swimming pools at our houses,” he says. “But we were far more Trainspotting than Hollywood.” But that’s the way it was. The club scene, the underworld. are male-dominated zones, it’s the jungle culture, the lion king syndrome, not just one female in tow, but three, four or five at a time. It could be ferocious at times. You want them all. You want to protect your harem. You see someone moving in on your territory and – Bang! – they’re out. urn:lcp:muscle0000leac:epub:365f41e9-ab24-4edc-8596-b629d12016d0 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier muscle0000leac Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6844wg96 Invoice 2089 Isbn 1904034489

Campbell, Laura (5 April 2016). "2016 National Film Awards UK winners announced". The National Post . Retrieved 13 June 2019. We started doing very big raves and had to accept you had to turn a blind eye to the drug-dealing. The raves wouldn't have happened without the ecstasy. Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8934 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000033 Openlibrary_edition Rise of the Footsoldier Part II: Reign of the General Box Office". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 22 September 2023.

There is a weird moral quandary at the centre of the Essex Boys’ infamy on film: real people – and not very nice people – posthumously co-opted as icons of straight-to-DVD crime capers. Felperin, Leslie (15 September 2023). "Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance review – super-stabby sequel a cut above its predecessors". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 September 2023.