Essex Boys' killer Jack Whomes has been freed from prison after being cleared for release by the Parole Board. Whomes, 59, was given three life sentences in 1998 and told to serve at least 23 years.
He's now free and has returned to live with his mum after winning a Parole Board hearing, the Mirror understands. Whomes is understood to be on licence while working as a mechanic and living with his mother in Suffolk.
Whomes and his friend Michael Steele, now 76, were found guilty of shooting drug dealers Tony Tucker, 38, Pat Tate, 37 and Craig Rolfe, 26, in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex, in 1995.
They were thought to have supplied the ecstasy taken by Leah Betts, 18, who died three weeks earlier. Whomes’ mum Pam told the Sun on Sunday :
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