The Adams family is seen as the most powerful homegrown British crime syndicate in the country.
The Hexell brothers in this film, although only shown in two scenes, are presented as the most feared, powerful crime gang in all of Essex. They even had some *beep* commando team kidnap Tate, Tucker and Rolfe.
Is it possible that they are based on the Adams ( in just a flash of Leach' imagination ) or did they really exist ?
I took it at that they were based on Kenneth Noye, he lent Tate some money back in the 90s to fund a drug venture with Mick Steele and Darren Nicholls and Tate didn't pay him back because he felt Noye looked down on him, you just didn't take liberties like that with people like Kenny Noye over large amounts of money.
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Great research man !
I didn't know Kenneth Noye was that powerful. In the film even ruthless gangsters like Tony Tucker and Patrick Tate ( who in reality were even more vicious than portrayed in the movie ) were scared *beep* of them.
Kenny Noye is one of the most successful criminals to ever come out of Britain, he made his fortune on the Brinks Mat Robbery, he was later acquited of the murder of a policeman in the 1980's and his empire grew and grew until he bumped into Steven Campbell (who may or may not have owed Noye some money, I don't know all the details but I can tell you for sure that Campbell was certainly no angel) and stabbed him to death on a slip road that was portrayed in the press as a "random road rage" incident, which in all honesty, is f-ckin bollocks!!
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Erm, wasn't his name Steven Cameron? Maybe Cameron was an angel after all and Steven Campbell wasn't.
shareBtw Pat Tate and Tony Tucker could hardly qualify as "ruthless gangsters" lol, They only knew each other 2 years before they met their end, 10 months of which Tate spent back in prison after being found with a gun under his pillow, the rest of the time they were together, which is about 15 months, they were shoving sh!t in their veins and up their noses, drinking like fish and robbing drug dealers and thinking they wouldn't have any comeback.
The idiots really thought they were invincible and were gonna become millionaires, everyone saw their downfall coming long before it did, I just can't believe they didn't see it, even in their drug addled state.
It wasn't a question of "Are they going to get shot" it was a question of "Who's going to f-ckin shoot them?"
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It's kind of karma coming round really wasnt it, you go around taking advantage and upsetting the wrong kind of people, you're going to end up in trouble.
I enjoyed your facts about Kenny Noye, I saw him a documentary on him a long time ago, which he stabbed a police men in his garden right? And in the documentary I watched as well the killing he was convicted of was described as a road rage incident, sometimes they like to twist the truth the press and police.
I did not realise he was connected to to Pat Tate, I have to do some more research because this story really interests me.
Yeah Noye was in prison with Tate in the early 90s, they met in a pub when they both were released and Noye lent him £60.000 to fund some venture of ill gotten gains.
Bernard O'Mahoney, a former doorman at Raquels in Basildon whose wrote a lot of books based around events in Essex in the last 20 or so years actually accompanied Tate on the meet with Noye and remarked how Tate was sulking on the way home afterwards and said that "If he(noye) thinks he's getting his money back he can f-ckin think again" and O'Mahoney says that he could see the writing on the wall for Tate, Tucker and Rolfe if they were going to start messing with the likes of Noye.
Men are guilty of all the good they do not do.
I read that Tucker, Tate and Rolfe also upsetted the Hunt firm from Canning Town. So maybe the Hexell brothers could also be based on them.
But I think the Noye-theory seems more plausible, because people have reported about a blonde man riding along with them that day.
Sometimes it are the small things in a movie that can puzzle you lol
When I lived in Holloway Road the Portuguese-British Rego Family said they, not the Adams or any Irish firm, ran Upper Holloway and Archway. Many a victim was chased in terror by little Bill Rego up Archway Hill.
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