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

Thugs smashed shop windows before opening fire inside a West Midlands business leaving one victim hit in the arm by a bullet while another suffered a neck injury

An armed thug captured on chilling CCTV storming into a computer shop in broad daylight armed with a shotgun has been jailed for eight years.

Azeem Hussain, 26, was part of a gang which targeted a business in Smethwick, West Midlands, leaving two men in their 40s with gunshot wounds. Shocking video footage shows a Ford Fiesta first pulling up outside City Computers before a group of masked thugs started attacking the store.

Two offenders wielding axes begin to smash the windows of the shop while two others head inside brandishing shotguns. One yob can then be seen blasting towards a closed door with the deadly firearm before booting it open and making his way into a back office.

Two of the intruders then suddenly dash back out of the room and towards their getaway vehicle while their accomplices continue to trash the store. One victim was hit in the arm by a bullet while another suffered a neck injury but ‘miraculously’ survived the attack at midday on January 12 last year.

CCTV footage from the previous day showed the gang scouting out the route from their addresses to areas surrounding the store. West Midlands Police said there were also numerous calls between the gang during the morning of the violent attack. Hussain, of Walsall, West Mids., fled the country soon afterwards but was arrested at the airport following his return to the UK in April this year. He admitted firearms offences at a previous hearing and was jailed for eight years at Worcester Crown Court yesterday.

Five men, all from Walsall, have already been jailed for their part in the attack. Last August Haider Shabir, 21, was jailed for 14 years, Mohammed Uwais Latif, 24, was caged for nine years and ten 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 nine years two months in September. Detective Inspector Francis Nock, from the force’s Major Crime Unit, said: “All six men involved in this planned armed attack have been convicted and sentenced.

“Azeem Hussain was a key player in this operation and has received a lengthy jail sentences to reflect this. This could have easily been a fatal attack but miraculously, the injuries of the two victims were not serious. Weapons have no place on our streets and we will continue to bring those to justice who think it’s acceptable to use them to bring violence into our communities.”