Alongside accomplice Jack Whomes, Steele (inset) shot and killed three men in Rettendon, near Chelmsford, in December 1995 in a brutal gangland execution.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has intervened to try to prevent the release of a convicted triple killer who was jailed for carrying out the country's most notorious gangland executions.
Behind the bloody gangland murders that spawned a slew of low-budget British gangster movies lies a real story about whether the men found guilty served time for a crime they didn't commit.