Real/Key Events depicted within the movie

E makes you dehydrate - hence the fact she drank too much water which travelled to her brain! If she didnt take the E,she wouldnt of died

She died from the pill itself if you have read The Essex Boys book it is covered in great detail in that the pill that was supplied to her was contaminated it all happened revolving around a club called Raquel's in Basildon ran by Tony Tucker not Carlton Leach.

Yep actually
http://www.urban75.com/Drugs/drugxtc1.html

Doctors who treated her at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, where she was taken after lapsing into a coma at home during her 18th birthday party, will tell the coroner that "water intoxication", and not an allergic reaction to the drug, was the cause of death.

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Actually, it's interesting they didn't cover the whole Leah Betts thing as it was pretty integral to Tucker's crew falling apart at the end. OK, so the Rettendon murders were the pivotal climax, but I thought the film was trying to cover all aspects of Leach's relations to the Essex Boys firm.

I did wonder, however, at Hartnett's V.O as the police were pulling away from the scene of the first of the "what if" murder scenarios: "some say it was police retaliation for certain 'high profile' Ecstasy deaths..." - it's just the way he seems to emphasise those two words, almost as if Gilbey's scripting was saying, "yeah, we know Leah Betts died as a result of Ecstasy supplied by the firm; it's just not really THAT relevant to the narrative".

Also, it's still a touchy subject with her family, even now - Paul Betts especially is notoriously sensitive to any portrayal or referencing to his daughter's death, unless it's in a positive, drugs-awareness light. You can see his point, in that respect - it's bad enough losing your child to drugs without it being linked to one of the most brutal crime gangs of the '90's.

I guess that was why they also changed the name of the guy who was given a forced overdose by Rolfe(another falllacy - it was actually all 3 of them that killed him that way).

Awesome film, though - it's a story which has fascinated me for years, the Rettendon slayings and the attention to detail they gave that final scene - even down to getting the clothes they were wearing from police forensics and using the absolutely horrific pathology photos for the prosthetics - could not have been done better. People might moan its gratuitous - but if you're gonna tell a story which climaxes with three people getting their heads mangled with .12-gauges at point-blank range, there's not really any other way to present it. It's a chilling reminder of what happens when you get too cocky in circles like that.

As Mickey Steele says himself: 'you soppy, greedy, gullible, *beep*

Plugger, he was cut up. Except it wasn't with a pizza cutter...Tate smashed his face into a pile of plates on the counter.

Pain and truth? I'm a fat fuqqin' crook from New Jersey!