David Gunn has recalled the time his brother Colin punched him in the face before he fell into a diabetic coma for six days. The former Bestwood Cartel boss says his brother had to break into his house and was forced to hit him when he "got up swinging" after being unresponsive in bed.
Gunn, who is diabetic, was drinking heavily in those days and was not eating enough, which led to him falling into the coma. In the Shaun Attwood True Crime podcast, he revealed that after the coma he struggled with memory loss.
Gunn still has short term memory problems even now, but struggled to remember people such as his closest friends and family after waking up from the coma. It was his brother Colin who phoned the ambulance and made sure he arrived in hospital on time after the incident.
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"I had the coma in 2004," he said. "I was a heavy drinker in those days and I'd gone on the session and I was having ale not food and I've gone to bed one night and my brother had to break-in in the morning. I'm unresponsive.
"So they've broke in, they've booted the door off, they've come upstairs and I've got up swinging [punches]. So he's put one on my chin and knocked me clean out. He's phoned an ambulance, carried me into the back of the ambulance, got in his Range Rover, got to the hospital and I was asleep for six days.
"Not because of the punch, it's because my blood sugar went low so I went in a coma. That's the first one I had. I didn't know I was in it and when I woke up I didn't know where I was and that, I didn't know who was who - all I remember was my mum and Colin. I didn't know my wife, my children, didn't know nobody - horrendous."
The Gunn brothers ran the Bestwood Cartel crime gang and will forever be linked to the estate, even all these years later. Brothers Colin and David, along with others, both went on trial over the murders of John and Joan Stirland, who were gunned down in August 2003 in Trusthorpe on the East coast of Lincolnshire.
No-one was convicted of their murder but in June 2006 Colin Gunn was sentenced to 35 years for conspiring to murder the Stirlands, while John Russell of Northcote Way, Bulwell, was jailed for a minimum of 30 years, and Michael McNee of no fixed address, was jailed for at least 25 years, both for the same offence. David Gunn was found not guilty by the jury.
You can listen to the entire podcast - which contains very strong language - by clicking here.
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