Moment gang of thugs smash their way into shop using axes before firing shotgun at staff

Thugs smashed store windows earlier opening occurrence wrong a West Midlands concern leaving 1 unfortunate deed successful the limb by a slug portion different suffered a cervix injury

An equipped thug captured on chilling CCTV storming into a machine store successful wide daylight equipped with a shotgun has been jailed for 8 years.

Azeem Hussain, 26, was portion of a pack which targeted a concern successful Smethwick, West Midlands, leaving 2 men successful their 40s with gunshot wounds. Shocking video footage shows a Ford Fiesta archetypal pulling up extracurricular City Computers earlier a radical of masked thugs started attacking the store.

Two offenders wielding axes statesman to smash the windows of the store portion 2 others caput wrong brandishing shotguns. One yob tin past beryllium seen blasting towards a closed doorway with the deadly firearm earlier booting it unfastened and making his mode into a backmost office.

Two of the intruders past abruptly dash backmost retired of the country and towards their getaway conveyance portion their accomplices proceed to trash the store. One unfortunate was deed successful the limb by a slug portion different suffered a cervix wounded but 'miraculously' survived the onslaught astatine midday connected January 12 past year.

CCTV footage from the erstwhile time showed the pack scouting retired the way from their addresses to areas surrounding the store. West Midlands Police said determination were besides galore calls betwixt the pack during the greeting of the convulsive attack. Hussain, of Walsall, West Mids., fled the state soon afterwards but was arrested astatine the airdrome pursuing his instrumentality to the UK successful April this year. He admitted firearms offences astatine a erstwhile proceeding and was jailed for 8 years astatine Worcester Crown Court yesterday.

Five men, each from Walsall, person already been jailed for their portion successful the attack. Last August Haider Shabir, 21, was jailed for 14 years, Mohammed Uwais Latif, 24, was caged for 9 years and 10 months and Mohammed Tayyib Wajid, 26, was sentenced to 21 months. In April, Ahmed Aumair, 21, was jailed for 12 years and six months and

Jamal Hussain, 22, was jailed for 9 years 2 months successful September. Detective Inspector Francis Nock, from the force's Major Crime Unit, said: "All six men progressive successful this planned equipped onslaught person been convicted and sentenced.

"Azeem Hussain was a cardinal subordinate successful this cognition and has received a lengthy jailhouse sentences to bespeak this. This could person easy been a fatal onslaught but miraculously, the injuries of the 2 victims were not serious. Weapons person nary spot connected our streets and we volition proceed to bring those to justness who deliberation it's acceptable to usage them to bring unit into our communities."