00:00So on the 31st of July last year there were five males sat in a car on a place called
00:18Reedswood Lane up in Walsall. They were attacked by several offenders in two vehicles. They used
00:23one vehicle to ram the victim's vehicle and then nine men emerged from the offending vehicles all
00:29armed with a mixture of weapons from machetes and blades, blunt instruments such as baseball
00:34and cricket bats and one of them was armed with a single-barrelled shotgun which was discharged
00:39into the vehicle. The main thrust of the investigation was around CCTV, understanding where the attacking
00:45vehicles had come from and where they'd gone back to. So we had eight defendants charged
00:51with conspiracy in this matter based on the level of planning and organisation that had
00:55gone into the offence. And it was on the first day of trial that we received the pleas to
01:00conspiracy to commit GBH and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and of
01:04course the additional plea to assisting an offender. So the message of anybody considering arming
01:09themselves and taking part in violent criminality is simply don't. So we take a zero tolerance
01:15approach to any violence involving weapons, particularly firearms. We have an extremely well
01:20put together investigative capacity to seek out who's responsible for these offences as is demonstrated
01:26in the result from this operation. So we still have an outstanding suspect in this matter who we'd
01:31like to speak to as a matter of urgency. The man is called Amar Khan. He also goes by the name Adam
01:36Barzini. He is from the Warsaw area but there is a mixed intelligence picture about his current
01:41whereabouts. First of all I would say to him that he needs to surrender himself to custody so we can
01:47speak to him as soon as possible about this offence and I would urge anybody who has any information
01:51about his whereabouts to contact the police as a matter of urgency.
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