TRIPLE “Essex Boys”; killer Michael Steele has been freed after a failed bid to keep him in jail.
to an undisclosed location last month following a 21-month parole battle.
He has never admitted the 1995 murders of drug dealers Pat Tate, 37, Tony Tucker, 38, and Craig Rolfe, 26, on a remote farm track at Rettendon.
In February the Parole Board deemed him fit to be freed after nearly 29 years in a category-A .
put his release on hold with a reconsideration application which was dismissed last month.
Steele’s supporters have now vowed to “prove conclusively”; he is not guilty.
He is unlikely to speak publicly as his release comes with strict licence conditions, including a ban on giving media interviews.
The Ministry of Justice said: “He faces an immediate return to prison if he breaks the rules.”;
Steele and co-defendant Jack Whomes were convicted of the three — which have spawned several movies — at the Old Bailey in 1998.
They got life with a minimum of 23 years.
Whomes was released in 2021.
