Five men jailed for a gangland murder have been cleared on appeal. Kevin Nunes, 20, a drug dealer, was seized at gunpoint and shot dead in Staffordshire in September 2002. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it did "not seek to uphold the convictions" of the men nor press for a re-trial. The court heard that concerns about the credibility of the key prosecution witness, Simeon Taylor, were not disclosed to the defence. Execution-style killing Four senior police officers - including Northamptonshire's chief constable and deputy chief constable - are being investigated over misconduct claims relating to Staffordshire Police's investigation into the murder. Judges were told on Thursday of an affair between two police officers involved in the case, which may have had a bearing on the evidence given by the witness. Mr Taylor said at the trial he had witnessed what happened, but has since retracted his evidence. Mr Nunes, an amateur footballer on the books of Tottenham Hotspur, was shot in an execution-style killing in a country lane after cutting in on a gang's lucrative trade moving crack cocaine from Wolverhampton to Aberdeen. Levi Walker, from Birmingham, Adam Joof, from Willenhall, West Midlands, Antonio Christie, from Great Bridge, West Midlands, Michael Osbourne and Owen Crooks, both from Wolverhampton, were found guilty of his murder at Leicester Crown Court in 2008.
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