Colin Gunn was jailed for at least 35 years in 2006 for conspiracy to murder John and Joan Stirland, who were shot in Trusthorpe, Lincolnshire, to gain 'revenge' on their son
A notorious crime boss serving a life sentence for orchestrating the murders of an innocent couple is bringing a High Court challenge over whether he poses a high risk of escape from prison. Nottingham gang leader Colin Gunn was jailed for at least 35 years in 2006 for conspiracy to murder John and Joan Stirland, who were shot in Trusthorpe, Lincolnshire, to gain "revenge" on their son.
Gunn was last classified as being of "exceptional" risk in March 2013, due to allegations that he had tried to corrupt a member of staff as part of an escape plan, before being downgraded to "high risk" in September that year, a judge in London was told. She said an assessment that Gunn is "the head of an organised crime group with associates able to assist in an escape attempt" is "unsupported by any evidence".
David Manknell, for the MoJ, said in written arguments that Gunn's claim should be dismissed, adding that prison policy "does not provide for oral hearings for escape risk classification reviews". Gunn, once said to have run the Bestwood Estate in Nottingham with his brother, David Gunn, built up a multimillion-pound empire based on drugs, extortion and violent crime and played a part in the city previously being known as Britain's gun crime capital.
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