Man who planned murder with Skorpion submachine gun is jailed for life

A young firearms fanatic who was part of a plot to kill a man with a sub-machine gun has been jailed for life - but his accomplice is still on the run.

Sujeel Amjad, 22, helped plan a frightening attack which saw a house and a car shot at in Birmingham - nearly killing a man.

The scheme began when Amjad and others travelled to a Wolverhampton address on the evening of December 3 last year.

There, police believe Amjad picked up multiple firearms, including a 'military-grade' Skorpion sub-machine gun that would be used in one of two shootings that night.

From there Amjad and his gang drove back to Birmingham where the guns were handed to another man. 

That man then travelled to an address on Southbourne Avenue, Hodge Hill, and opened fire at the front of a house where his target lived.

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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 miraculously 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, 22, of Burney Lane, Alum Rock, was found guilty 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.

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Amjad was jailed for life at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday and will serve a minimum term of 20 years. A second man, who police believe fired the shots, 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.'