Sujeel Amjad was at the centre of the murder plot that saw a house and car targeted, and “nearly killing a man” during the terrifying targeted attack in the West Midlands
A man who played a role in the plot to kill a man with a sub-machine gun has been locked up. Sujeel Amjad helped lot a terrifying shooting which saw a house then car shot at, “nearly killing a man”.
The plot began when Amjad travelled with others to an address in Wolverhampton on the evening of Sunday, December 3, last year. It is there where police believe Amjad picked up several guns, including a “military-grade” Skorpion machine pistol which would go on to be used in one of two shootings that night.
From the address in Wolverhampton, Amjad and the gang drove to Birmingham where the guns were handed to another man. That man then travelled to an address at Southbourne Avenue, Hodge Hill, and opened fire at the front of a house where the intended target lived, the Birmingham Mail reports.
The gunman’s target was not in but a witness described him wearing a balaclava returning to a white Seat Leon parked outside the house, before he was driven away by another man. The target then returned home in his car a few hours later, and the same gunman was waiting for him, this time armed with the Skorpion sub-machine gun, which could fire hundreds of rounds a minute.
Multiple shots were fired towards the car, and one of the two victims thought he had been shot, but the bullets had all missed. The stolen cars used in the shootings, a VW Tiguan and a Seat Leon, were driven away and found burnt out.
Amjad, aged 22, of Burney Lane, Alum Rock, was convicted of attempted murder over the second shooting, and arson of the two cars. Images recovered from his phone showed him holding two guns, along with an image of a Skorpion, which may have been the same one used on December 3.
Amjad was jailed for life at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday (September 20) and has been told he will serve a minimum of 20 years. A second man who police believe fired the shot has fled the country and is ‘still on the run’ with police looking to track him down with the help of ‘international partners’.
Detective Inspector Francis Nock, from West Midlands Police ’s Major Crime Team, said: “The Skorpion is a military-grade weapon, capable of discharging around 800 rounds per minute. It’s incredible really that no one was actually hit, despite that clearly being the intention of the gunman.
“Mobile phone and CCTV analysis helped us connect Amjad to the planning of the second shooting, and we know from text messages that he was involved in arranging false number plates for at least one of the cars which were used in the shootings and which he later helped destroy.
“We are determined to bring the gunman who is still on the run to justice, and won’t stop until he is behind bars.”
