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A JURY must decide whether police corruption played a part in the deaths of a couple murdered in their Trusthorpe home, an inquest heard.
As reported, John and Joan Stirland were found shot dead at their bungalow near Mablethorpe, on August 8, 2004.
Nottingham man Colin Gunn, 40 – who had persuaded police officers to provide him with information – was jailed for 35 years for the murders.
John Russell, 29, and Michael McNee, 22, were jailed for 30 and 25 years respectively in 2006 for conspiracy to commit the murder.
The inquest, which opened yesterday at Lincoln Crown Court, heard the shooting was a revenge attack after Mrs Stirland's son Michael O'Brien shot dead 22-year-old Marvyn Bradshaw outside a Nottingham pub in August 2003.
The criminal community in Nottingham believed the bullet was meant for Mr Bradshaw's friend, Colin Gunn's nephew Jamie.
He died in August 2004 from pneumonia, six days before the Stirlands were murdered.
As O'Brien watched proceedings via video link from his prison cell, the jury heard that despite Mrs Stirland calling a police family liaison officer at 1.30pm on August 8 to report a stalker, the couple did not receive a visit from police until 9.30pm that evening.
By that time the couple were both dead.
Mr Stirland, 55, had been shot six times, and his 51-year-old wife suffered four gunshot wounds.
Today, the coroner Karon Monaghan QC, told the jury: ''You will be required to consider whether anything or anybody, particularly the police, contributed towards the deaths.
''You will be required to consider the steps taken by various police officers in the time leading up to the deaths of Mr and Mrs Stirland and if they properly dealt with information they were given.
''It will also be up to you to decide whether police corruption played any part in the deaths of Mr and Mrs Stirland."
The jury was told that in August 2003, O'Brien shot Mr Bradshaw outside the Sporting Chance pub in Bulwell, Nottingham.
Jamie Gunn, the nephew of Colin Gunn, was in the same car as Mr Bradshaw at the time and held his friend as he died.
Following the death, Jamie Gunn turned to drink and drugs to help him cope, but he never recovered and on August 2, 2004, he died at the age of 19 from pneumonia, just days after 23-year-old O'Brien was jailed for a minimum of 24 years for murdering his friend.
Nottinghamshire Police knew at this stage, the inquest heard, that the Stirlands might be under threat from Colin Gunn.
They had already fled their Nottingham home after it was shot at and were given the contact details of a family liaison officer they could call.
On August 7, a neighbour saw a man prowling outside the Stirlands' bungalow and told Mrs Stirland about it the next morning.
She phoned her family liaison officer at Nottinghamshire Police at 1.30pm, who sent a fax to Lincolnshire Police asking them to check on the couple.
But officers in Lincolnshire wanted more information and tried to call the officer back. They couldn't get through and finally decided to send an officer at 9.30pm. They found the Stirlands dead.
In June 2006, Colin Gunn, then 39, was jailed for life with two accomplices after being found guilty of conspiring to murder the couple.
A court later heard Gunn used trainee detective Charles Fletcher and Pc Phil Parr to extract information he needed from the Police National Computer.
A subsequent investigation by the IPCC found Nottinghamshire Police's sharing of intelligence was unacceptable.
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