A preview clip of Sunday night's Murdertown shows one of Britain's most feared crime bosses calmly answering questions from Lincolnshire Police in his gruff East Midlands accent. Murdertown: Episode 5 features on Crime + Investigation channel tonight (October 9_ at 9pm, and the brutal ganglord's voice can be heard as he speaks about his time on the Lincolnshire coast when ex-Carlton couple John and Joan Stirland were murdered.
Gunn went on to be convicted at Birmingham Crown Court of conspiring to kill the couple with two other men and was jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years before the Parole Board will consider his release. Murdertown's gripping five-part series, hosted by Silent Witness star Emilia Fox, ends with "Mablethorpe" - an analysis of events here in Nottinghamshire - with devastating hard-hitting repercussions in the revenge murders of the Stirlands in their tiny cul-de-sac home in the peaceful coastal village of Trusthorpe.
The interview begins with Gunn being told why he has been arrested and he is asked where he was on August 8, which was a Sunday (the day the Stirlands were found dead in their bungalow in Radio St Peters, Trusthorpe).
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Gunn told police: "All I want to say is, I had absolutely nothing to do with it. I was up the coast with my family and friends. I met family and friends. I went to different parts of the coast and that's all I have done. Because I was on holiday, which I do most weekends, because I've got a van down there. My mum's got a place right near there.
"My nephew (Jamie Gunn) had just died and I was grieving".
* Gunn, co-accused John Russell and Michael McNee were jailed for life for conspiring to murder John and Joan Stirland. Gunn received a minimum of 35 years, Russell was to serve at least 30 years, and McNee, then 21, was handed a 25-year term.
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