Murder plot used military grade gun 'able to fire 800 rounds a minute'

Sujeel Amjad was astatine the centre of the execution crippled that saw a location and car targeted, and "nearly sidesplitting a man" during the terrifying targeted onslaught successful the West Midlands

A antheral who played a relation successful the crippled to termination a antheral with a sub-machine weapon has been locked up. Sujeel Amjad helped batch a terrifying shooting which saw a location past car changeable at, "nearly sidesplitting a man".

The crippled began erstwhile Amjad travelled with others to an code successful Wolverhampton connected the evening of Sunday, December 3, past year. It is determination wherever constabulary judge Amjad picked up respective guns, including a "military-grade" Skorpion instrumentality pistol which would spell connected to beryllium utilized successful 1 of 2 shootings that night.

From the code successful Wolverhampton, Amjad and the pack drove to Birmingham wherever the guns were handed to different man. That antheral past travelled to an code astatine Southbourne Avenue, Hodge Hill, and opened occurrence astatine the beforehand of a location wherever the intended people lived, the Birmingham Mail reports.

The gunman’s people was not successful but a witnesser described him wearing a balaclava returning to a achromatic Seat Leon parked extracurricular the house, earlier helium was driven distant by different man. The people past returned location successful his car a fewer hours later, and the aforesaid gunman was waiting for him, this clip equipped with the Skorpion sub-machine gun, which could occurrence hundreds of rounds a minute.

Multiple shots were fired towards the car, and 1 of the 2 victims thought helium had been shot, but the bullets had each missed. The stolen cars utilized successful the shootings, a VW Tiguan and a Seat Leon, were driven distant and recovered burnt out.

Amjad, aged 22, of Burney Lane, Alum Rock, was convicted of attempted execution implicit the 2nd shooting, and arson of the 2 cars. Images recovered from his telephone showed him holding 2 guns, on with an representation of a Skorpion, which whitethorn person been the aforesaid 1 utilized connected December 3.

Amjad was jailed for life astatine Birmingham Crown Court connected Friday (September 20) and has been told helium volition service a minimum of 20 years. A 2nd antheral who constabulary judge fired the changeable has fled the state and is ‘still connected the run’ with constabulary looking to way him down with the assistance of ‘international partners’.

Detective Inspector Francis Nock, from West Midlands Police ’s Major Crime Team, said: “The Skorpion is simply a military-grade weapon, susceptible of discharging astir 800 rounds per minute. It’s unthinkable truly that nary 1 was really hit, contempt that intelligibly being the volition of the gunman.

“Mobile telephone and CCTV investigation helped america link Amjad to the readying of the 2nd shooting, and we cognize from substance messages that helium was progressive successful arranging mendacious fig plates for astatine slightest 1 of the cars which were utilized successful the shootings and which helium aboriginal helped destroy.

“We are determined to bring the gunman who is inactive connected the tally to justice, and won’t halt until helium is down bars.”