S2 Ep13: S02E13: The Stirland Murders

Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Shevlin

Society & Culture, 415885

4.4 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Joan and John Stirland were murdered on the 8th August 2004 in the seaside resort of Trusthorpe. Mrs Stirland's son, Michael O'Brien, had killed another man outside a pub in Nottingham a year earlier, and the couple had been in fear for their lives ever since. Timothy Spencer QC would later describe Joan and John Stirland as the victims of "a calculated, ruthless and merciless execution."

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0:00.0	I'm Molly Wansall and I'm Geoffrey Wansall and for the last 16 years or thereabouts we have been having lunch every Saturday and often our conversation turns to murder and that's what's prompted us to launch this true crime podcast called blood ties.
0:19.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Molly Wansall and I'm here with my father, Jeffrey Wansall.
0:26.5	Hi everyone, welcome back. It's a delight to be with you, even though the topics are a bit grim sometimes.
0:32.9	It is absolutely wonderful that you take the trouble to listen to the podcasts of which I am enormously
0:39.6	proud and thank you so much.
0:42.7	Yeah, thanks everyone.
0:44.0	Much appreciated.
0:45.7	How are you doing, Dad?
0:47.1	Good week.
0:48.0	Not bad.
0:48.8	Yes, I read a couple of really good books, new fiction, one by a former MI5 surveillance officer who effectively got invalided out
0:59.7	of his job because he was suffering from PTSD. And he wrote a very good book called Soldier Spy,
1:08.5	which was a story of his life. And he's now written his first
1:13.3	novel based around, of course, a MI5 surveillance officer. Terrific read. Really, really good.
1:26.1	It's so exciting and done with such authenticity
1:31.0	that I was completely swept up in it
1:35.9	what's it called
1:39.2	I knew you were going to ask me a question
1:41.2	it's in the other room
1:43.1	we'll tell you at the end of the podcast yeah we'll tell you at the end of the podcast I knew you were going to ask me a question. I can't remember. It's in the other room.
1:46.7	We'll tell you at the end of the podcast.
1:47.7	Yeah, we'll tell you at the end. Yeah.
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