The Essex Boys Murders | The Cosworth Getaway

[@harrycallahan9143]

Still think its Mad Mickey... 1: The phone calls that day. 2: Saw 3 vehicles driving around in formation again like how Bowman wanted before. 3: Donna Jaggers saying Mad Mick was involved with this deal. 4: Craig had heard stories about Mad Mick and Donna was worried about Craig getting involved in this deal. 5: Mickey seemed paranoid and made them drive to a different location on another occasion. 6: Arming them with guns, did the 3 think they could screw Mick over and refuse to pay him and Mick wasn't having it? 7: Mick sold his White Corrado not long before the murders, did he sell the car to upgrade for a getaway car like the white Cosworth? 8: Mick's police interview is full of lies, tried to distance himself from them even though he was involved in this deal & arming them. 9: Mick is now in prison for attempted murder after trying to kill and double cross some drug dealers, feels the same M.O here. 10: Mad Mick was involved in this deal, either he knows who killed them...or he killed them.

[@mattfrancis4569]

thanks cstc, hope your keeping warm and safe in the storm and your dog :) love from cornwall as always my friend

[@thatstory1092]

That is unbelievable. They didn't find a shred of evidence in the Passat. And Nichols said they were covered in blood, at least their hands were anyway.

[@blownwest1117]

Or someone cleaned that car right out and made it spotless with an hr plus down in the hard to get places. Dose anyone believe it was nippers father killed them?

[@jackdaw3173]

I had nct 2 s on my turbo Renault..definitely a performance tyre..I think they only went up to 15,16inches..which would have been the size of a cossie wheel

[@janettemohan7739]

It's true that a beige VW Passat wasn't seen turning right from the A130 into Workhouse Lane at the time or on the evening in question. The same could be said of possibly more noticeable vehicles, such as (for example) a Range Rover or Ford Sierra Cosworth. Darren Nicholls was identified as driving a VW Passat near the scene of the crime (please see CS2C's video "The Essex Boys Case | Police Corruption" at 1 minute 42 seconds and 44 minutes 13 seconds). At 51 minutes and 18 seconds into the "Police Corruption" video, Detective Sergeant Brian White states: "Further to this, enquiries made as a result of Darren Nicholls's interview revealed further independent corroboration of his version of events, i.e., a confirmed sighting of a vehicle similar in detail to the one being used by Nicholls in the side road at Rettendon village at the relevant time..." However, we don't know how reliable this eye-witness evidence was. Evidence of a firearm was in fact found in the VW Passat, but it was determined it wasn't the weapon discharged during the TTR killings.

[@jaycartwright2525]

I actually spoke to them the night they were murdered

[@samuelsnell9474]

Prove it lol

[@michaelhay8712]

NCT Eagles were standard OEM tyres on Cosworths, not always replaced like for like due to their high price, you’d only find them on a relatively new vehicle or a fastidious owner.

[@martinofleeds]

@michael hay or a car owned by the Police, they never scrimp on serving and pamper their Cars.

[@modevans3569]

@@martinofleedsI come here to say to reply to that comment and I think you 100% on the money. Brian Rolfe is on record saying police used a white cossie

[@malcolmritchie3319]

I’ve always been fascinated by the Sierra Cosworth theory purely for the fact i remember what type of characters had them back then. You’re stereotypical cosworth owner in 95 was usually either a businessman, oil rigs worker, unsavoury characters involved in organised crimes i.e drug dealers and gangsters and of course the police themselves but mainly traffic cops. I do believe a Sierra was involved in the murders but not necessarily used as a get away car just purely for the fact a white Sierra Cosworth would have stuck out like a sore thumb at midnight especially due to it’s unique features which you’d think would prompt people to come forward and say they had spotted a cossie after midnight in the Rettendon area and surrounding roads. I am aware that anyone that isn’t up on cars would’ve just passed a cossie off as another Ford and thought no more of it. There has been a lot of red herrings from an escort van, to a white bmw and another Range Rover possibly coming up behind it in the lane so it’s hard to tell what story matches up but I’d put money on it that a cossie was at the soc either after or before the murders but my only doubt on that theory is why would a cossie risk going all the way down the lane to possibly getting stuck there bearing in mind they weren’t the best cars for driving in the snow and if sat at the top of the lane would most likely be spotted waiting. Again Billy Jasper said he used an Uno Turbo over the field at Rectory lane that night so it’s hard to tell what is actually true and what car was used for what it’s like a massive jigsaw 😂

[@stevebrightmore4937]

They were 4x4 the sapphire cosworths weren’t they so they wasn’t worried so much about getting stuck

[@malcolmritchie3319]

@@stevebrightmore4937 The 4x4 cossie’s hold their own in the snow but someone said that they spotted a C reg Sierra Cosworth earlier on that night and if that’s true it would have to be the 3 door whale tail cossie because that model of RS was before the sapphire saloon was launched in 88 on a E reg I’m sure and that was 2wd until the following year. I’m thinking it was actually a 89/90 cossie on a G reg which would make sense for it being a 4x4 and having those particular tyre tracks at the scene. I’m certain that the person at the Rettendon Turnpike has mistaken it as a C reg which is an easy mistake to make depending on how you look at the number plate

[@stevebrightmore4937]

@@malcolmritchie3319 great point but it could also of been a Sierra XR4x4 whale tail an they mistaked it for a cosworth

[@malcolmritchie3319]

@@stevebrightmore4937 they did look very similar and that is a possibility come to think of it

[@stevebrightmore4937]

@@malcolmritchie3319 I think police involvement an mick an jack are innocent and if mick isn’t innocent jack definitely is.

[@markhawkins7908]

And who else could make a car disappear without a trace the police

[@NiktheEnglishGreekCypriot]

Bit confused, why is the a130 always bought up, when the entrance to the track was off of main road?

[@fulbarikarim9102]

That's the original A130 not the motorway which replaced it

[@NiktheEnglishGreekCypriot]

@@fulbarikarim9102 ah ok, thanks for the heads up

[@jaycartwright2525]

To be quite honest it was the perfect execution and I’ll tell you how firstly it because it was an accident. I spoke to pat that afternoon and told him if he went to rettendon at 7pm I’d dance to wuthering heights behind the 5 bar gate and swing my arms about like Kate bush did all those years ago my dad emerged from the undergrowth with a clown gun I was signaling at him as to say no meanwhile the other 3 are standing out of the Range Rover sunroof cheering me on with plastic cups and yorkie bars oblivious to what was unfolding around them when a homosexual owl flew in the sunroof pecked Craig in the eye then started pecking Tony’s mullet moved into the backseat and starting bumming pat pat got it by the throat and punched it out of the nearside window but by this time it was too late I ran off towards rettendon hall and my dad jamp on reliant robin and we fled the scene just as he drove out of workhouse lane he came face to face with a man driving a b reg Passat who was wearing nothing but a leather gimp mask he reversed onto the a130 so fast that his b reg Passat turned into a escort van and shot off towards rettendon turnpike it’s weird how you never forget some things

[@janettemohan7739]

That owl wasn't gay - just reluctant. A witness heard it declaring that it was "too wet to woo."🦉

[@jaycartwright2525]

@@janettemohan7739 WHOOOO would’ve known😂

[@joannepreston8980]

To be quite honest with some of the things that used to go on down that lane back in the day it wouldn’t surprise me

[@samuelidredd8921]

Makes more sense than Nicholl's account, you wanna be careful though coz you just dropped yer old man right in the sh*t

[@samuelidredd8921]

Your account makes a lot more sense than Nicholls version, You wanna be careful about dropping the old man in it though.

[@bigstrangey24]

I’ve seen in old documentary’s old footage I seen a cosworth outside police stations parked up I think in your old footage bro

[@danglee1786]

I seen that too

[@bigstrangey24]

💯

[@stevebrightmore4937]

And a white escort van outside the nick

[@jaycartwright2525]

But it was my dad that done it bruv

[@stevebrightmore4937]

@@jaycartwright2525 really

[@jaycartwright2525]

I wonder if Jimmy Nail was ever questioned that night? He had a cossie back then 😂

[@blownwest1117]

An exhaust which was broken and hanging down enough would have hit the ground and making marks as it went down into a dip in the road.

[@lukejenkins9341]

Police were driving cosworths bk then

[@martinofleeds]

Just look at the TV Show; Spender. He drove a unmarked Police Car; a 4 x 4 Sapphire……

[@295walk]

Not sure if the 4wd cars suffered the known rear tyre wear on a 2wd . The rear inside tread can wear much faster due to the camber related problem whilst on the gas, they squat down especially on older stock suspension .

[@markherbert1343]

Alot of ppl put alloy wheels on escort vans and have done for years plus snazzy tyres,just a thought!

[@blownwest1117]

Back then rs escorts used the cossy wheels aswell, they used to put them on even 4 door mrk 3-4escort cars and escort vans the mrk 4 hadn't long came out back then if I'm right. Didn't a witness come forwards in February 96 and said that white transit van comes flying out of that junction cutting the witness up with almost a crash but mick gripped the wheel.

[@jonathanoneill6992]

Surely it's possible that the white high performance car was Bowman's Corrado. Not a million miles away from a Sierra to the untrained eye in the dark.

[@andymellor4293]

High performance tyre entering the lane .. any photos of the high performance tyre leaving the lane ?

[@jaycartwright2525]

No the mystery vehicle teleported itself out of the lane not long after arriving

[@andymellor4293]

@@jaycartwright2525 There was more than one way out of the lane .. so no need for teleportation ...

[@jaycartwright2525]

@@andymellor4293 If you could fit a car down that snow pilled alternative lane which wasn’t wide enough for a car and still isn’t or drive across a field in a standard vehicle that towards the ponds or rectory lane that night then I’d love to see that 😂😂

[@andymellor4293]

There are tyre tracks beyond the locked 5 bar gate the performance car could of travelled down the lane first and could possibly of left that way .. They could of been the ones to lock the gate . Who knows

[@jaycartwright2525]

@@andymellor4293 It is possible. I have put this forward to a member of the TM eye team and they said that the tracks in the field are just deep muddy ruts that would been there as fisherman used the pond on a daily basis. I personally think they look as fresh as the tracks in the lane. Surely police would follow the tracks to see where they concluded but suppose that would be too easy. Just like trying to ascertain the time of death

[@Fastade80]

Great content as always, definitely more than one other vehicle involved here I believe, and also I think the vehicle or vehicles involved are key to solving this murder 🧐🤔

[@stanpritchard7436]

Everybody is assuming that Darren Nicholls, was just a driver and supergrass, when in fact he was the actual killer. aided and abetted by Ivan Dibley.

[@martinofleeds]

How did DN evidence get believed? Especially by the OB? There’s no way that a Passat has any form of tire footprint to match a Cossie. The Passat would run on 185s and the Cosworth prob around 205`s +

[@westleyo5]

? the 2 guys that found the bodies walked up to the RR so there must have been footprints

[@janettemohan7739]

You're correct, Donald. The boots of Messrs Theobald and Jiggins were taken by the police and examined in a process of elimination, as was the footwear of (at least) the first two bobbies on the scene.

[@michaelhay8712]

The Passat was found to have 4 different tyre brands.

[@jaycartwright2525]

Durex latex pasante and magnum

[@simonpayne8252]

The way Tate was sitting in the middle of the back with legs akimbo each side strongly suggests he was alone in the back and that they followed another vehicle down that lane' stopping behind it leaving them a little distance from the gate. As soon as they came to a stop and their focus was on the car ahead' illuminated in their headlights' the rear offside door was pulled open and shots were fired. The RR was in drive engine on with Rolfes foot on the brake so they cant have been stationary for long at all. Tate and Tucker were sitting comfortably cradling their mobiles between their legs. You can only summise therefore that the car they followed down there was either a trusted contact or simply not considered a threat. Why the remote location? Certainly not the sort of isolated place where 3 paranoid lumps would go for a typical drug deal. It could have been under the pretext of a recce for a potential drug drop from a plane. That is far more credible. From the photos of the site and the wintery conditions' there is almost zero chance of a plane actually landing there safely so it had to be a drop if anything. There are definitely people that know what happened.

[@Marky.H]

In my opinion.... Police 🚔

[@samuelidredd8921]

That they used a leaky shitty old Passat with Fat Nicholls as getaway driver is fucki*g laughable (well, it would be if 2 innocent men never got locked away)

[@michaelparker6763]

I believe that the killer(S) did arrive by car because if they walked up the lane they would be too cold to fire the shotgun accurately

[@IanP1963]

Never heard of a Cosworth l must have been sleep walking in 1995 😂

[@dlions9068]

Hardly anyone talks about it. This is one of the only channels that mentions it because he's read through every eye witness account. Not many people know about the white car.

[@IanP1963]

@@samolevski1119 Correct Lol !!!

[@slideways8022]

Must not have watched the news throughout the 90s, became THE choice of getaway car for a few years, well unless they found a Lotus carlton

[@IanP1963]

@@slideways8022 OK - Lol !!!!

[@jaycartwright2525]

@@slideways8022 I’m sure in 1990 the top speed of a lotus Carlton was 177 mph not much could touch it at the time even Porsche of that time would be struggling to tailgate one. It was the only good thing vauxhall ever done was pass the Carlton over to lotus to play about with and the results were scary

[@chrisd3211]

@crime scene to court room Brian Rolfe said he was the C.I an that the white car that was tailing them was the drug squad 😨

[@masterbait65]

Apparently some say a UFO was seen in the area that evening also, piloted by Mr. Bean who was also the shooter!

[@chucky2316]

Mr bean was a hard man back in the day

[@malcolmritchie3319]

The Mr bean being the shooter that night is more believable than DN nicholls version of events 😂

[@chucky2316]

@@malcolmritchie3319 Mr bean knocked out the Wealdstone raider and Ronnie pickering. I saw it all happen he cut wedgie kway and his brother wonnie and drove off in a mini

[@malcolmritchie3319]

@@chucky2316 don’t forget Danny Dyer 🥴😂

[@chucky2316]

@@malcolmritchie3319 😂😂😂😂. He's a ledgend old Danny everyone knows Danny.

[@jameshansing5396]

lol. no one recalls seeing a VW Passatt Estate.. Why would they?

[@danielflower250]

I also remember seeing a pic of a white sierra cosworth parked outside the police station maybe the police was involed after all 🧐

[@jaycartwright2525]

That’s the crime solved then isn’t it? It was my dad he used a yellow fiat cinquecento with a red nearside passenger door

[@markhawkins7908]

I'm sure that I have seen a picture nr the police and a plain white cosworth in the background and it would of been something unmarked police would use

[@Jimmyb85]

what amazes me is that there is no physical evidence of Darren Nicholls version in relation to the car used and with all due respect if you were about to commit a triple murder i would much rather a sierra cosworth as a getaway car than a passat just saying. the other thing thats interesting is you did a video of a witness claiming a ford escort van pulling out of that lane causing him to brake hard do we know weather Darren Nicholls ever owned a Ford Escort van or not ???

[@cherylspandley8270]

Probably a works motor, he should be on the insurance documents though, or could have been Colin Bridge's motor.

[@cherylspandley8270]

Darren appeared to have a lot of vehicles, so on Wednesday 06th December 1995, he left Braintree in Essex to travel to Sunbry On Thames in a Black VW Scirrocco, 5, of them in that vehicle, then he drove back from Sunbury On Thames, to Braintree in Essex, about an hour & half drive in poor weather conditions. He parked the VW Scirrocco up, went indoors, spoke to the wife & children, probably had something to eat& drink, got changed, then got into VW Golf Convertable, drove from Braintree to Marks Tey to meet Mick Steele at 5.00pm, so how did the White Escort Van, get to Workhouse Lane In Rettendon? Unless Colin Bridge, or Peter Cory followed Darren Nicholls, he went to Marks Tey, the other driver went to Workhouse Lane In Rettendon. Also bare in mind, that the police also have/had white Escort Vans, so Maybe Wolfgang Bird in on the killing, or other police officer. Still doesn't explain how the beige VW. Passat got to Rettendon, to Meadow Road, unless of course Mick Steele with one other picked the Passat up from Brsintree, during the late morning, early afternoon of Wednesday 06th December 1995, or perhaps Mick Steele arranged for Pat Tate to pick up the Passat from Braintree, after TTR, left TGI FRIDAY: About 1.30pm,sh, between Pat Tate going to Sarah Saunders mums house about Sarah Saunders VW that broke down at 11.00am that morning. Wasn't the passat going to be used as spare parts, to Tey to fix Sarah Saunders Car; and Jack Whomes, was apparently going to pull the Beige Passat to bits.

[@ellenlyons4090]

If you was going to commit a crime of that magnitude then surly you would want a high performance getaway car. Just in case it came on top and you had to out run the old bill. Surly you wouldn’t rely on a clapped out Passat to get you out of there and as far away before bodies was discovered. I don’t think it would have looked out of place along side the Range Rover in those days they were both classed as top of the range cars and people with money drove them. unlike today every one can afford a high end motor either by buying or leasing one.

[@martinofleeds]

Of Course The Police drove unmarked 4 x 4 Sapphire Cosworth`s. To make a film or TV show believable you draw on true life events or things really used by the Characters the Actors are trying to pass-off as real life. So when they wrote a TV Show of around the same time the Main Character an under cover OB DS, He had to drive a unmarked Car used by the Police for covert ops in real life. The Car was a Ford Sapphire 4 x 4 Cosworth. The TV show Spender. You do the Math……..

[@jaycartwright2525]

Ain’t no doubt it’s plain to see that Jimmy Nail was never asked to account for his whereabouts that night 😂😂

[@martinofleeds]

@@jaycartwright2525 🤣🤣🤣

[@Darren-jw9ll]

Unless that was a 4x4 cosworh other than that surly rear wheel drive in the 90’s no traction in the wet and snow wouldn’t make sense , but what does make sense in this case !!

[@matty6848]

Yes and the Sapphire Cosworths were 4x4 so would make sense to use one when the weather was wet and snowy.

[@lynnhexler-haan3357]

Made it !

[@sydneypauley3187]

Why are there no witnesses that saw Jack collecting the passatt with a trailer from the pub carpark.

[@janettemohan7739]

Good point, Sydney. A great deal has been made about nobody seeing the Passat being driven around Rettendon during the evening in question. (It turns out that someone actually did report a sighting, but let’s leave that for the moment.) A Volkswagen being loaded on a trailer would have been much more obvious and there were no witness statements to that effect either. Furthermore, the car would’ve had to have been towed to Bulphan along a 17-mile route on fairly busy post-rush hour “A” roads, but this seemingly went unnoticed. (JW didn’t mention a tarpaulin or any other covering in his testimony.) It seems extraordinary that none of the “Wheatsheaf” customers saw JW loading the Passat on to the trailer in the pub car park. (NB - to be fair, it’s possible that JW couldn’t have been identified personally because [A] it was dark and [B] as a teetotaller he probably wouldn’t have ventured into the pub.)

[@seamusburke9101]

Sydney I think its because on a cold snowey night people with drink on their mind would have no intrest at all in some poor devil trying trying to wrestle an old car onto a trailer unless it was in their way.

[@fredzep01]

Crime Scene 2 Courtroom on your Six hour program you shown us a picture that was taken behind the range rover, the photograph was looking down at the tracks and it clearly shows a set of skinny tier tracks. that was a controlled murder scene it's not police tracks. find your picture and have a look....

[@seamusburke9101]

Dont forget Theobalds Land Rover was up the lane before any photos were taken.

[@adamrobson80]

Who had a white cossie round there a that time coz there isent that many of them there's only 5000 or so in the whole country 🤔

[@matty6848]

This was Essex back in the 1990s there were loads of Cosworths on the road.

[@jaycartwright2525]

@@matty6848 Southend used to be crawling with cossies RS turbos xr3’s escort van’s with turbo conversions 😂

[@matty6848]

@@jaycartwright2525 lol yeh I remember the escort van Cossies they were the bollocks😂👍🏻

[@joshrushton5950]

These videos are dead. I mean come on

[@replaycrew5024]

🤗

[@chucky2316]

I love the cosworth and case I love you cstc but this case has been done to death same old churned out nonesense sorry to rip into you

[@codenamenel]

You dont have to watch it if you dont want to

[@chucky2316]

@@codenamenel be nice to have something new on the case or maybe a entirely new case, cstc is just going down the same path like all these Essex boys channels.

[@primmslimm7185]

@@chucky2316 leave then, no one who enjoys the channel values/wants to hear your opinion. Bye.

[@stewills9711]

I know this is an old video, but what are the odds of this kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmWUh35nfNmEb7s turning up after being a stolen recovered after so many years... Been stored for 14 years. Had all its wheels 'replaced' D reg was supplied in Peterbourough, about 40 minutes away from Basildon. Said it before, the Cossie was always the key to this one and they cant be that hard to trace as they were not exactly common cars.

[@gookazade1]

The description given by witnesses say it was a sierra sapphire cosworth. That link is for a standard sierra cosworth. Completely different shape cars.