High street ambush: Drive-by gunman jailed for 11 years

A daylight ambush, a shotgun blast and a frantic escape. CCTV, plate swaps and a dumped car unravelled a brazen gun attack on a busy high street.

Two men have been jailed after a drive-by shooting on West Bromwich High Street left a man in his 20s seriously injured, after a gunman fired a shotgun from a moving vehicle in broad daylight.

The shooting took place at around 11.30am on 1 May last year at the junction of West Bromwich High Street and Trinity Way, as vehicles waited at traffic lights.

Police established that two shots were fired from a black Vauxhall Mokka towards a white Volkswagen Golf that was stationary and preparing to turn right.

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The first shot missed.

The second shattered the rear windscreen of the Golf, striking the victim.

Despite suffering shotgun injuries to his shoulder and the back of his head, the man managed to drive away from the scene and made his own way to Midland Metropolitan Hospital for treatment.

An investigation by the Major Crime Unit of West Midlands Police involved detailed analysis of CCTV footage tracing the movements of the suspects and the vehicles before and after the attack.

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Detectives identified Adyan Hussain, aged 22, as the driver of the Mokka and the man who fired the shots.

Around 30 minutes before the shooting, Hussain had been dropped off on Leopard Lane, West Bromwich, by Naveed Hussain, also 22, in a different vehicle.

Adyan Hussain was later captured on CCTV changing the Mokka’s number plates shortly before the attack.

After the shooting, he abandoned the vehicle in Oldbury.

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