Masked gang fired shotgun at terrified staff while robbing computer shop

Nov 08, 2024 18:10

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This is the moment a masked gang raided a computer shop and fired a shotgun at terrified staff.

CCTV footage shows the four men carry out their audacious robbery at City Computers Smethwick, West Midlands last year.

Two staff members were inside and suffered non-life threatening injures, including a gunshot wound to the arm and a wound to the neck.

Three of the gang plus two other men involved have already been jailed, while a sixth, Azeem Hussain, was sentenced to eight years in prison at Worcester Crown Court on yesterday.

The 26-year-old, who admitted firearm offences at an earlier hearing, fled to Pakistan after the incident, but was arrested on returning to the UK in April.

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In the footage of the raid, which happened on January 12, 2023, a Ford Fiesta is seen pulling up outside the shop before four men jump out of the vehicle.

Two of the gang begin smashing the windows with axes while the other two head inside brandishing shotguns.

One man blasts the gun towards a closed door, 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.

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 frightening attack.

Three of the gang were jailed last August. Haider Shabir, 21, got 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 and 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.

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Masked gang fired shotgun at terrified staff while robbing computer shop