Birmingham crown court heard yesterday how within hours of waking on August 8 2004 Mr Stirland, 55, and his wife, 51, were dead, victims of a 'calculated, ruthless and merciless' gangland killing carried out in revenge for a murder their son had committed a year earlier.

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