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Major Crimes Unit (2026) Season 1 Episode 1
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00:01:46Oh, amazing.
00:01:47And never giving up.
00:01:48Oh, please show me your hands now!
00:01:50Show me your hands!
00:01:51Until those responsible are brought to justice.
00:01:56We've got to be there dealing with it quickly.
00:02:01Our response will be as robust as the offence itself.
00:02:05Get on the fire!
00:02:07Get on the fire!
00:02:10Get on the fire!
00:02:36We need someone quick, man.
00:02:39I ain't having this kid die on us.
00:02:46Vehicle rocks up at the manor.
00:02:47It's got one person, critical condition, and there's damage to the windscreen.
00:02:52Possible gunshot.
00:02:53In Walsall, five men arrive at the manor hospital in a silver VW Passat, one with gunshot wounds,
00:03:01the others beaten and stabbed.
00:03:03Right, listen, yeah.
00:03:04Weapons in the back there, look.
00:03:06So, put some gloves on, close these doors for me.
00:03:18Across town, police speed to the scene after the victims report being attacked by a gang wielding
00:03:24machetes, bats, and a gun.
00:03:29There's debris in the rows.
00:03:32You got another vehicle involved or anything?
00:03:35I don't know, mate.
00:03:38Confirmed discharge?
00:03:40I think that's it.
00:03:42They say he's got a gunshot to his arm.
00:03:44Multiple people are in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
00:03:48The priority is to preserve evidence and build a clearer picture of what happened.
00:03:54We've got that there, and then literally, right by where your boot is, that's the first
00:03:59drops of blood.
00:04:01That's the wing mirror from another car.
00:04:03That car's grey.
00:04:04That's both got his wing mirrors on.
00:04:06So, the other car is possibly going to have front-side damage and missing a wing mirror.
00:04:13It says inside Passat, arrow, a baseball bat, flick knife, heavy blood-stained hammer on
00:04:19rear seat.
00:04:20Yeah.
00:04:22What's the situation at the hospital?
00:04:24Carnage.
00:04:25By the centre of it.
00:04:31A major incident is declared as a medical team rushes to triage the victims.
00:04:36Do you know what his injuries are?
00:04:38Head injuries.
00:04:38Head injuries.
00:04:39They just wheeled him straight round.
00:04:40Have you been here or, like, bleeding?
00:04:42There's a hammer in the back of the car.
00:04:44Yes.
00:04:44I don't know.
00:04:46So, he's the first victim.
00:04:48Another victim's already gone to A&E with a head injury.
00:04:51Has he walked there himself?
00:04:52No.
00:04:53We took you in a wheelchair, going straight to A&E.
00:04:57Okay.
00:04:57He's heading, bleeding quite heavily.
00:05:00There's another gentleman there.
00:05:01Yeah.
00:05:01He's got a stab wound, and I don't know what on his leg, I think.
00:05:05Yeah.
00:05:05Okay.
00:05:06You got it, girl?
00:05:07Yeah.
00:05:08Stay with the vehicle.
00:05:10He's going to pop us around your arm, mate.
00:05:11It's okay.
00:05:12It's my shot.
00:05:13There's a rear passenger seat behind the drone.
00:05:15That's where he's been sat?
00:05:16Yeah.
00:05:18He's got quite a big lump in his arm on the opposite end,
00:05:20so there's no exit room, but you can feel, like, something solid at the end.
00:05:24Do you know anyone who potentially would want to shoot you?
00:05:32Less than a mile away, back at the scene of the attack,
00:05:36police continue searching for evidence.
00:05:41And have you seen anything?
00:05:43Any of them got CCTV?
00:05:45CCTV.
00:05:46Have we smashed on these doors, see if we can wake anyone up?
00:05:53I'm going to record that. Is that all right?
00:05:55Yeah.
00:05:57What's up with her there?
00:05:59She might fix the car or something.
00:06:00Er, I don't know.
00:06:03She hasn't got...
00:06:05...somebody was grabbing the binger.
00:06:09That camera, if that one works, that would be perfect.
00:06:12That is facing...
00:06:13It's got three.
00:06:14Yeah.
00:06:14There's two on the door and the one there, it's got everything.
00:06:16It's got everything.
00:06:24Due to the seriousness of the attack, Major Crime Team 1 has taken charge of the investigation.
00:06:30From our perspective in Major Crime, when a gang-related incident involving weapons, serious violence takes place, we've got to
00:06:37be there dealing with it quickly.
00:06:40And it's now our responsibility to reassure the community that our response will be as robust as the offence itself.
00:06:48Rosie Downs, who heads up the CCTV team, is reviewing the first available footage.
00:06:53So, 23 minutes past 11, got the victim's car parking up.
00:07:03So you start to see the headlights coming across and it's then that the two vehicles crash into the victim's
00:07:10car.
00:07:23So you can see here, one of the victims trying desperately to get out, but the car is trapped between
00:07:29the wall.
00:07:30So as he's trying to open the door, it's just not possible.
00:07:38As you can see here, multiple weapons.
00:07:44So a gunman is hiding in the shadows just here as he then comes round.
00:07:50He's masked up, hood up.
00:07:52It's going to be quite difficult to identify who that person is.
00:07:58So you can see, this is the gun, looks like a pistol of some kind, pointing into the back of
00:08:04the car.
00:08:07And the discharge happens.
00:08:14The screams that you can hear inside the car are...
00:08:21Horrible.
00:08:24Driver goes to start the car.
00:08:26Car doesn't start, probably from the impact of the crash into the victim's car.
00:08:34He gets out, holding this weapon here.
00:08:39He then gets back in.
00:08:41And for some reason, he puts the weapon into the car and then runs away.
00:08:46That sheer panic of, right, the car doesn't start, what do we do?
00:08:50Potentially, it's going through their mind that, right, we're going to have to run away on foot.
00:08:54I've got a weapon in my hand. I need to get rid of this weapon.
00:08:57And so that's potentially why they've left that in the vehicle.
00:09:00It's a crucial mistake.
00:09:05Detective Inspector Francis Nock will be leading the manhunt for those involved.
00:09:10The operation is called Cobblestone.
00:09:13This is by far the most actively involved firearm discharge that we've dealt with in terms of the fact you've
00:09:20got nine offenders in two vehicles, all of whom playing an active, destructive role in this job.
00:09:25So everybody's armed. Everybody's got a role to play.
00:09:29The offence is extreme in its nature. The violence is of the highest possible level.
00:09:35Realistically, there's no bigger investigation that's going to come along in a major crime environment in terms of the numbers
00:09:41involved, the level of planning and the sheer severity and ferocity of the attack.
00:09:46But you can never make any assumptions as to the motive before you've got to the evidence.
00:09:51You can tell by the way the vehicles approached that it was a very planned attack, which would make sure
00:09:56they were all trapped in the car.
00:09:57The weapons were such that certain weapons were designed to smash windows.
00:10:01Certain weapons were then designed to stab and slash into the car to cause as much damage as they possibly
00:10:05can.
00:10:06And this was all a softening up exercise for the gunman to then reveal himself and shoot into the car
00:10:11at point blank range.
00:10:13We obviously see shootings, stabbings, you know, quite often, some of them often quite violent or shocking.
00:10:21But I think even when probably all of us first watched that footage, we were like, well, like, that's unbelievable
00:10:28that obviously nine of them have done that to five individuals in the car.
00:10:33They could have died.
00:10:35I agree. What's happened in this job is a group that thinks they're absolutely untouchable, thinks they can do whatever
00:10:42they like on a public street,
00:10:44clearly thinks the police aren't going to catch them, clearly thinks that they are way above and beyond the law.
00:10:49And I think this is probably a representation of a group that's been committing acts of violence for a long
00:10:56time and potentially getting away with it to the point where they've done this.
00:11:06With multiple attackers involved in what looks like a carefully coordinated ambush, Major Crime Team 1 now faces the challenge
00:11:14of identifying and locating all the gang members before they strike again.
00:11:19Time's ticking right from the start. We've got to identify those people who have committed that offence and bringing them
00:11:25to justice quickly.
00:11:26At this stage, their identities are all disguised, they're all wearing dark clothing.
00:11:31It's not immediately obvious who's who.
00:11:35It is a challenge, the scope of which I've never faced before.
00:11:40It puts you under pressure.
00:11:51Major Crime Team 1 are searching for a gang responsible for a brutal attack in Walsall that left four men
00:11:57seriously injured and another in a coma, fighting for his life.
00:12:10New evidence suggests the ambush was a retaliation over drugs territory, and now Major Crime Team 1 fear reprisals and
00:12:19a wider drugs war.
00:12:22Across the West Midlands, the underground drugs economy is worth £9.4 million every year.
00:12:29Street dealers can flip a kilo of heroin or cocaine bought for around £25,000 into £100,000, making it
00:12:38extremely profitable.
00:12:39The reason why gangs feud is normally drugs and the money that comes from drug dealing.
00:12:46Violence often erupts when one drugs gang tries to muscle in on another's patch.
00:12:52In some areas, you've got gangs who are very postcode based. Some of these gangs are fighting each other for
00:12:59territory.
00:13:00We have to be on top of our game all the time to try and keep on top of it.
00:13:04Show me arms, mate! Show me arms! Show me arms! Show me arms!
00:13:09Show me arms!
00:13:12With the threat of further violence looming, Francis and his team are under increasing pressure to solve the case quickly.
00:13:19You know, the CCTV speaks for itself in terms of the ferocity and sustained nature of the attack.
00:13:25You know, as soon as you see that kind of job, you understand the importance of solving it.
00:13:29You understand the importance of identifying this group that's involved.
00:13:33Francis and his colleague, DC Kosh Shourish, want to understand more about what took place, so are making their way
00:13:40to the scene to walk through the events.
00:13:42We're basically driving the route now that the offending vehicles took into the offence.
00:13:46They knew where the victims were.
00:13:50They knew how they were going to arrange the attack cars, how they were going to smash into them and
00:13:54what they were going to do when they got there.
00:13:58They are particularly focused on the chaotic moments during the attack.
00:14:03So this is the scene of the incident.
00:14:06What we have here is the victim's vehicle is parked here on the double yellow lines.
00:14:14It's parked just in between these two cameras here.
00:14:18What we then see on CCTV is two vehicles which both ram it.
00:14:24First vehicle approaches from this sort of bank over here.
00:14:30And the second vehicle approaches from the front.
00:14:38Two of them leave on foot.
00:14:40Yeah.
00:14:40And from CCTV we can tell that they've sort of taken a right here.
00:14:44And they ran down here.
00:14:46Mm-hmm.
00:14:48And this is in there kind of panic having totaled the vehicle.
00:14:52So we've got the profile wearing the shorts, who just stands on this corner here.
00:14:57And of course that second profile, who runs down this road there.
00:15:02While Francis and Kosh examine the crime scene, Rosie and her colleague Indi Basra track the suspect's route as they
00:15:10flee on foot.
00:15:10So we've got this camera that points here and this camera that points in here.
00:15:15Yeah.
00:15:16And it's from both cameras that we start to get a good kind of facial image of him.
00:15:21And it's from this camera that captures him shouting to the car that actually would capture that really good facial
00:15:29image.
00:15:30At the back of the car.
00:15:31Yeah, so he gets into the back of the car and obviously at that point there's nine people in that
00:15:35car.
00:15:35He's the ninth person getting in there.
00:15:38So, and you can actually see the struggle caught on the camera.
00:15:41You can see that the car is really busy and they struggle to shut the door behind him.
00:15:47You know, he's just run. He's breathing heavy.
00:15:49Maybe he needs the covering off his nose and mouth.
00:15:52Difficult to say.
00:15:53But either way, very good that he's done it because it gives us a facial image to work from.
00:15:58Albeit it's blurry.
00:16:00Once we know who we're looking at, that's going to assist us without a shadow of a doubt.
00:16:06Despite capturing the first clear image of a suspect, the investigation team faces a major problem.
00:16:14Footage of the incident has leaked online.
00:16:20I would say the public reaction to this gives us a level of pressure that we hadn't previously seen.
00:16:26You've got an offence which is a really significant offence anyway.
00:16:32And there's a level of panic.
00:16:36And uncertainty in the community that we really haven't seen before.
00:16:47Across the West Midlands, criminal gangs are locked in a battle for control over the most lucrative territories.
00:16:54Expanding beyond cities like Birmingham, they push their operations into smaller towns and rural communities to maximize profit.
00:17:05Using dedicated phone numbers, gangs send street dealers to supply crack cocaine and heroin, a system known as county lines.
00:17:13As they expand, gangs move in on rival patches, using intimidation and extreme violence to seize control of the customer
00:17:22base.
00:17:23And with nearly 400 active drugs lines in the West Midlands at any one time, police are under intense pressure
00:17:30to crack down on street dealers and curb the violence.
00:17:42A known drug dealer was stabbed on the 17th of March, was alive threatening.
00:17:47There have been several retaliatory attacks in relation to his stabbing.
00:17:50Detective Sergeant Gavin McGrath is part of the county lines task force, hunting the street dealers who flood neighbourhoods with
00:17:58drugs and violence.
00:18:00Drug dealing is a violent trade. It's competitive. They all want a slice of the pie.
00:18:04If another group comes in, that can cause tensions between the groups.
00:18:08And it is common for violence to occur in certain territories.
00:18:13So, Bromford Lane, Tyburn and Bromford.
00:18:14Yeah, right. So, the junction at Tyburn and Bromford, just north of it.
00:18:18We were on a policing operation about two to three weeks ago.
00:18:21It was just a constant flurry of drug users turning up, waiting for deals.
00:18:24So, we think that's a regular location people will come to.
00:18:27So, when you're out and about, please have a peer.
00:18:29If you see people banging around, but it was like shooting fish in a barrel, wasn't it?
00:18:32There were so many people turning up.
00:18:33Right, the time is now six o'clock.
00:18:36Can you all be kitted and ready to go by quarter past no later, please?
00:18:43The task force is set up to deal with county drug lines that sell heroin and crack cocaine.
00:18:49The link between drug dealing in respect of that class of drugs and violence is particularly high.
00:18:54So, that is our remit.
00:18:58We effectively play whack-a-mole.
00:19:00We're constantly up against new dealers all the time.
00:19:02So, when we conclude an operation, it's pretty quickly.
00:19:06We get another one referred in to us to have a look at.
00:19:09But we cover the whole force area.
00:19:11So, that could take us anywhere, all the Hampton Coventry into other force areas.
00:19:15But Erdington is a priority for us at the moment.
00:19:18Gavin and his team have uncovered a major drugs network, supplying crack cocaine and heroin to Erdington.
00:19:25A suburb five miles outside Birmingham, with around 20,000 residents.
00:19:31Erdington itself is a busy, urbanised area.
00:19:35There's a big user base there for drug dealers to tap into.
00:19:46Having identified a suspected drug dealer, Gavin and his team move in to make an arrest.
00:20:00We've got a pharmacy here.
00:20:02Let's have a look.
00:20:04Yeah, that's mushrooms.
00:20:07So, look here.
00:20:09That'll be...
00:20:10Let's have a look at that.
00:20:11I don't think that's crack.
00:20:13That's potentially meth, that is.
00:20:15Oh, wow.
00:20:16We've got MDMA.
00:20:18That'll be coke.
00:20:19That's resin.
00:20:20Yeah, so it...
00:20:21Yeah, if we bag that up, mate, yeah.
00:20:24Made a tidy profit today, if hell.
00:20:29That's not cannabis, that's spice, that is, I think.
00:20:31Oh, yeah?
00:20:32Yeah, so...
00:20:36It might be, it might be, it's finely cracked.
00:20:38Normally, when it looks like that, that's spice, so I'd bag that separately,
00:20:41because I think that's going to be spice, mate.
00:20:45We'll take his phone.
00:20:46Um, he's got 23%, so I'll get that backed up and prepped.
00:20:51We'll take that with us, and we'll collect you from wherever you may be.
00:20:55The suspect, believed to be part of an Albanian drugs gang,
00:20:58is arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply,
00:21:02and will be taken into custody for further questioning.
00:21:06County Lies, yeah, PIC from Erdington for possession of intent to supply.
00:21:16Well, yeah, I'll drink for you.
00:21:21A county line is a telephone number that has been set up
00:21:25in order to facilitate the supply of drugs.
00:21:28They're running all over the country, supplying drugs into various areas of the UK.
00:21:34So what we chase is the telephone number, who is controlling it.
00:21:38And when we do our enquiries, the suspects then emerge.
00:21:43And that's where the investigation starts.
00:21:58Major Crime Team One are leading the investigation into a shocking and violent ambush in Warsaw,
00:22:04where a gang targeted their rivals in an alleged dispute over drugs territory.
00:22:12Four of the victims have serious injuries, and the other is in a coma.
00:22:16DI Francis Nock leads the hunt for those responsible,
00:22:19as the leaked footage online threatens to undermine the investigation.
00:22:26With the CCTV being on social media, there's an added pressure for us to get a result.
00:22:31But also, there's a lot of people in the community who want to help us,
00:22:34who want to give us information, who don't want this sort of violence on their street.
00:22:41So what we've ended up with is a huge volume of names presented as possible offenders,
00:22:47that we now need to work through.
00:22:52With the threat of a full-blown drugs war looming, detectives are in a race against time
00:22:58to solve the case before the violence escalates.
00:23:0127 people named as responsible for a job that only nine people did.
00:23:06What's the veracity of all that intelligence?
00:23:08Where are the nine responsible hiding within that 27, even if they are included at all?
00:23:13At this point in time, there's a lot of work to do.
00:23:15It's been a massive challenge for us.
00:23:17I'm now responsible for the investigation of upwards of 20 individuals
00:23:22to try and narrow down who's actually responsible for this.
00:23:25I'm hoping some of the names are in there who have actually done it.
00:23:29But at this stage, we don't know if they're involved.
00:23:34While Francis and Kosh now have several suspects to pursue,
00:23:39Rosie uncovers further footage of the attackers fleeing the scene.
00:23:45Post-events, we've trapped the car now to its end point.
00:23:49So this is the car coming away from Reeswood Lane.
00:23:53So then we've got nine away on foot.
00:23:55So this camera.
00:23:58One.
00:24:02Two, three, four, five.
00:24:07Six, seven, eight, nine.
00:24:09All in line, all holding weapons.
00:24:12Detectives have tracked the nine suspects further
00:24:15and new footage from a few streets away from the attack
00:24:19could be key to identifying those responsible.
00:24:22And then this is the Bentley Moore Club
00:24:23where our two getaway vehicles are parked.
00:24:27So obviously the quality of the footage here isn't great,
00:24:31but I do have a little bit of clothing from the scene to work with.
00:24:37So some of them here, I mean, one's wearing shorts
00:24:40and there's only one person at the actual offence wearing shorts.
00:24:44Got dark-coloured trousers here with the light-coloured markings.
00:24:48So we need to do a bit of work now to identify which profiles these are
00:24:53so we can then put them into which other car.
00:25:04CCTV reveals the gang meeting in the car park of the Bentley Moore Social Club,
00:25:09both before and after the attack.
00:25:12So Francis and Kosh head there to investigate further.
00:25:16We're coming up here on the left is the Bentley Moore Social Club.
00:25:24So it's this camera, wasn't it, that captured...
00:25:26It'd be that camera, yes.
00:25:27...the main footage of what we could see,
00:25:30which was fortunate, wasn't it?
00:25:31Because they park kind of here, almost in front of it.
00:25:35As well as CCTV footage,
00:25:38a major piece of evidence has also been recovered from the scene.
00:25:46What they found was a machete discarded in the bushes here,
00:25:52which was blood-stained.
00:25:55Yes, yes.
00:25:55So probably as they got back, back out of the attack vehicles
00:25:58and into the getaway cars.
00:26:00You know, they're handling a lot of weapons,
00:26:01a lot of machetes, bats.
00:26:03They've got a firearm to worry about.
00:26:04And some mistakes were made.
00:26:07The discarded machete could be crucial.
00:26:09Once suspects are identified,
00:26:11DNA and fingerprints may link them directly to the attack.
00:26:15Investigations where criminals make absolutely no mistakes
00:26:18are incredibly difficult or impossible to solve.
00:26:21So it's just sometimes about finding...
00:26:24finding that inevitable mistake and making the most of it.
00:26:33So the Bentley Moore Club footage gives us
00:26:35so much in terms of the organisation of the offence.
00:26:41We know they're going to be meeting somewhere
00:26:43and that place is the Bentley Moore Club.
00:26:45It gives us vehicles and gives us a start and an end point
00:26:49for all of our different suspects.
00:26:51And it really sets the tone for the investigation
00:26:54in terms of where we go from there.
00:27:03Drugs are the lifeblood of organised crime,
00:27:05the revenue stream that keeps the gangs in business.
00:27:09Lots of people may see drug users walking around
00:27:11in their local streets but not actually understand
00:27:14the whole dark secret economy behind it.
00:27:17The street dealers are on the front line.
00:27:20If you have a drug line, you're involved in organised crime.
00:27:24Drug dealing is their core revenue stream.
00:27:26The cash they collect doesn't stay on street corners.
00:27:29It flows up the chain to the gangs pulling the strings.
00:27:33There's always some kind of hierarchy.
00:27:36Essentially there's nothing the gangs won't do to make money.
00:27:39Profits by the next shipment of drugs, weapons and bankrolls violence.
00:27:44Often knives, machetes, firearms are used,
00:27:48creating a whole other set of problems for the police to investigate
00:27:51and the wider community.
00:27:53So when police shut down a drugs line,
00:27:56they're not just making arrests.
00:27:59They're cutting off the cash that keeps organised crime alive across the UK.
00:28:08Investigations into the county line's operations have taken a significant step forward.
00:28:13West Midland's gang unit are executing a raid on a house they suspect is a base for drug dealing.
00:28:20Police! Police! Don't do it!
00:28:23Police!
00:28:25Show me your hands! Show me your hands!
00:28:26You want to love it out, bro? Come out.
00:28:29Come out.
00:28:31What the fuck?
00:28:33What the fuck?
00:28:39What the fuck?
00:28:43What the fuck?
00:28:44Fuck you, I'm me fool, bro. What the hell?
00:28:46Because, bro, you've just... I don't know who the fuck you are.
00:28:49That's the police. We shut out the police.
00:28:52Go on to your front.
00:28:55The raid proves to be a major development for the KP drugs line investigation,
00:29:00and Gavin updates his head of department, D.I. Mark Robinson.
00:29:04When they attended that property, the occupant was a male suffering from cancer and he's quite ill.
00:29:10And there was also another female in there who was since deceased.
00:29:14Cuckooing is a situation where drug dealers identify a vulnerable person, come in and either befriend someone or use coercion
00:29:23or violence to take over their home address and use that as a base.
00:29:28And there were two other males present. One of them was Lewis Simpson. He's had to be pinned down, hasn't
00:29:33he, upon entry.
00:29:34So he's been detained. The other male was Connor Burns.
00:29:37Connor Burns was found in the bedroom where a large number of wraps of heroin and crack cocaine were wrapped
00:29:44up in some cling film.
00:29:49One of the iPhones that Lewis Simpson had in his possession was the KP drugs line, 5624.
00:29:56So that positively links in with that and we've also got a really good drugs recovery.
00:30:00The lab have tested those drugs and they've confirmed they're heroin and crack cocaine.
00:30:03So that's where we are with that. So that's where those two start to come under our focus.
00:30:16There's also been a phone recovered, which is believed to be an active drug line.
00:30:21Although there are drugs at the address and police seize phones, 24-year-old Lewis Simpson and 23-year-old
00:30:28Connor Burns are released on bail with conditions not to contact each other.
00:30:33At the time of that arrest, Lewis and Connor were not connected to our investigation.
00:30:39However, once they get arrested, we made a link with them and the KP drugs line that we were dealing
00:30:44with.
00:30:47That number had went permanently down. It never reactivated.
00:30:51They had simply started up a new telephone number shortly after they had come out of custody.
00:30:59So, once 5624 drops, 1466 starts shortly after and we've identified that to be a continuation of the KP drugs
00:31:08line.
00:31:09It's been a bit of a difficult job really. It's been quite convoluted, quite complicated around how the suspects are
00:31:15operating.
00:31:16Once they get arrested, they don't then hang everything up and walk away from it.
00:31:21Lewis and Connor, the way they operate, was very good and very difficult to get on top of.
00:31:26And I think they'd been operating this way for some time, hence why they had not been picked up on
00:31:31sooner.
00:31:32They may be able to run for a little while, but they can't do it forever.
00:31:45Major Crime Team 1 are investigating a violent ambush in Warsaw, where one gang allegedly attacked another in a fight
00:31:53over drugs territory.
00:31:54Leaked footage of the incident fuels the pressure, as 27 names are given to investigators by the public.
00:32:01Now, fearing reprisals and a wider drugs war, DI Francis Nock makes a crucial decision.
00:32:08So, working through the names we've had, I've picked on some names who have been presented by intelligence a few
00:32:16times.
00:32:16We really can't wait in an instance like this. There's too much risk and there's too much evidence to be
00:32:21lost.
00:32:21We need to strike and we need to strike against the people who I believe at this time are most
00:32:25likely to be involved.
00:32:27A raid is launched and eight armed response officers move in on a flat in Warsaw, where two of the
00:32:33gang's attackers may be hiding.
00:32:36STEPHEN spe�chmalz
00:32:36PHONE SLOWS
00:32:38oh police!!!establish
00:32:40number threeä¸å…± come to
00:32:42the front door with nothing in your hands! Exchange hands!
00:32:48Open the door
00:32:49mate, open the door like it's a steady. That's it,
00:32:52come towards me mate, come towards me. How many people have
00:32:56you got in this flat mate? Just two people.
00:32:58Face them all there, face them all this hard mate.
00:33:03The purpose of arresting them quickly is to get our hands on them,
00:33:08search premises, seize items and investigate their whereabouts
00:33:12and their involvement to really understand
00:33:14whether these are members of the attacking group or not.
00:33:19When we searched that flat, we recovered drugs and we recovered phones,
00:33:22so there's evidence there of criminality.
00:33:29The team make two arrests, Amar Shehzad and Hezer Ayaz,
00:33:36and also seize large quantities of Class A drugs.
00:33:40However, a new problem has emerged.
00:33:43Amar Shehzad and Hezer Ayaz, their phones do not go to the offence location.
00:33:49At this stage, it doesn't put them at the scene, and that's what we're trying to do,
00:33:52and therefore they've been released on bail with conditions
00:33:55while we continue to investigate the case.
00:33:57But that's just the nature of this kind of investigation.
00:34:00When things are this organised and there's this many people involved,
00:34:03there's going to be stumbling blocks for you all over the place.
00:34:10It's a setback for the team, but now Rosie has a breakthrough.
00:34:15She's tracked one of the cars seen outside the Bentley Moore Social Club
00:34:19before the attack.
00:34:20We identified this vehicle dropping two people off at Bentley Moore Club.
00:34:27So using CCTV and tracking that vehicle back,
00:34:30we were able to identify the registration plate of that vehicle.
00:34:34From there, we were able to identify a financial transaction
00:34:38that takes place at the BP garage in West Brom.
00:34:42So what we have here is this vehicle present with the registration plate
00:34:48confirmed from CCTV as being our vehicle.
00:34:52And here we have the offender filling up petrol of that car.
00:34:56This is kind of the best image that we had.
00:34:59So from this alone,
00:35:02the shorts stand out to me.
00:35:05So this light-coloured marking that I see just here.
00:35:15The offender that runs away on foot away from the scene
00:35:18and gets into the car,
00:35:19he's wearing similar shorts to that.
00:35:23So you've got the kind of dark shorts
00:35:25with the light-coloured marked on the left-hand side.
00:35:29And the fact that he's filling up this vehicle
00:35:33shows us that this is highly likely to be
00:35:36one of the offenders involved in the incident.
00:35:39The evidence is key in helping identify the name of the suspect.
00:35:45Mohammed Sajid.
00:35:47And now, his name has been circulated
00:35:51to police forces across the country.
00:35:54The following morning,
00:35:55we got an alert from the airport police
00:35:58that Mohammed Sajid was planning to fly abroad
00:36:01to Lahore in Pakistan.
00:36:02Our inquiries have shown that he booked this flight
00:36:04four hours before it was due to take off.
00:36:07It shows that he's panicking.
00:36:09It shows that he's trying to flee the country.
00:36:14But before he can escape,
00:36:17police intercepts Sajid
00:36:18in the departure lounge at Birmingham Airport.
00:36:27Hello.
00:36:29What's your face, please?
00:36:30Attempt murder.
00:36:31What's your last name, Jack?
00:36:33Sajid.
00:36:34Is that your first name or your last name?
00:36:35Last name. S-A-J-I-D.
00:36:38First name?
00:36:39First name?
00:36:39Mohammed.
00:36:40The most heuristic for Birmingham Airport.
00:36:46Departures.
00:36:47Departures.
00:36:47Departures at Birmingham Airport.
00:36:53Detectives hope that by questioning Sajid,
00:36:55he will lead them to known associates and potentially new suspects.
00:37:01Are you part of a gang?
00:37:03No comment.
00:37:04Do you get involved in gang activity?
00:37:07No comment.
00:37:08As inquiries with Sajid get started,
00:37:11another vehicle leaving the Bentley Moore Social Club
00:37:13has emerged as a new focus of the investigation.
00:37:17We had a BMW coming away from the Bentley Moore Club.
00:37:22So, once we started tracking that vehicle to try and identify it,
00:37:25that was a vehicle linked to Amar Khan.
00:37:32So, again, once we started looking at his financial transactions
00:37:37throughout the day of the offence,
00:37:39that provided us with CCTV footage of his clothing
00:37:43and his connection with Mohammed Sajid the day of the offence.
00:37:52It was actually from here that we were able to track them.
00:37:59It appears from the evidence that Amar Khan
00:38:01is actually the leader of this group.
00:38:04So, we see him earlier on in the day
00:38:06positioning vehicles that we know are subsequently used
00:38:09in the attack or to get away from the attack.
00:38:11He collects and delivers a number of other offenders
00:38:14to the Bentley Moore Club.
00:38:15And then when you see the CCTV
00:38:17and you hear from the witnesses in the car,
00:38:19actually at the scene, he's directing weapons,
00:38:22he's in possession of multiple weapons,
00:38:24and it even appears he calls in the shooter to get the gun.
00:38:27So, it appears that Amar Khan's in control.
00:38:35But within days of the offence, Amar Khan fled the country.
00:38:38He did so using a false passport,
00:38:40and his destination is unknown,
00:38:43so finding him is going to be a huge challenge.
00:38:47It seems like a false passport is being told by the police.
00:38:55Just confirmed, Slade drugs, sir, yeah?
00:38:58Yeah.
00:38:58OK, yeah.
00:39:00While Major Crime Team 1 continues to hunt those
00:39:03behind drugs-related violence, the County Lines Task Force
00:39:07focuses on the funding by targeting the KP drugs line.
00:39:12These are officers that are on General Patrol.
00:39:14They don't know we're carrying out a drugs operation
00:39:16in respect to the KP drugs line.
00:39:18And they've seen what they perceive to be a drug user
00:39:21get in the back of this car.
00:39:22It looks like they've seen the officers
00:39:24and they've reacted to their presence, so they've driven off.
00:39:28It was apparent to me that the reason for the delay
00:39:31from the point they were asked to pull over
00:39:33to the point that they do pull over
00:39:34is because they're concealing drugs,
00:39:36they're turning off the drugs line,
00:39:38they're trying to get ready for that start
00:39:41to minimise the risk of them being arrested.
00:39:43Vehicle stopped outside 384 Station Road.
00:39:45Keep your hands where I can see them.
00:39:47Keep your hands where I can see them.
00:39:49Right, you're detained for Section 23 Missy's Drug Act Search.
00:39:52Sergeant from the Guardian Task Force, Bourneville Police Station.
00:39:55There is a male in the back.
00:39:57He's quite clearly a drug user.
00:40:00He doesn't share any ties with these two boys.
00:40:02What was I, mate? I'm a fucking adult, bro.
00:40:05The driver of that car was Connor Burns.
00:40:10This is our first sort of indication with Ryan Bowen.
00:40:13This is Ryan Bowen, who's also a suspect.
00:40:17The red Apple iPhone picked up by the officers in that stop
00:40:20is the KP Drug Line.
00:40:23You got it.
00:40:24These two were taken in for a strip search.
00:40:26They've been taken in before.
00:40:27No wraps are being found.
00:40:31It's quite clear that drugs are being swallowed
00:40:34or they're being concealed internally,
00:40:35hence why no arrests are happening,
00:40:37hence why police aren't seizing the drugs.
00:40:39Stay there, mate.
00:40:40So we've had to go into a bit of deeper dive
00:40:43about what the drugs line was doing.
00:40:46Well, buddy, if you step out for me then.
00:40:49At 10.15, the KP Drug Line
00:40:52suddenly stopped its normal, usual activity,
00:40:55coinciding with that encounter with the police.
00:41:01They get detained by the police for some time.
00:41:03For a whole hour,
00:41:06that phone is no longer in use.
00:41:08The KP Drug Line had turned back on at 11.16
00:41:10and that coincided with Connor Burns and Ryan Bowen
00:41:14being released by the police from that drug search.
00:41:18Sorry, dude.
00:41:19As soon as they're released,
00:41:21they have turned that phone back on
00:41:22and gone back out to supply drugs.
00:41:26Whilst we can say something to the drugs line,
00:41:28we've got to prove they sell heroin,
00:41:30we've got to prove they sell crack.
00:41:31This is a complicated case
00:41:33because the group themselves are quite disciplined.
00:41:36They've got the drugs line with them,
00:41:38but whenever they're getting stopped,
00:41:39they've got no drugs,
00:41:40so the questions would arise.
00:41:42Well, if you think they're drug dealing,
00:41:43why aren't you fighting drugs?
00:41:53While Gavin focuses on how the drugs are funded,
00:41:56Major Crime Team One
00:41:58continues to investigate the Warsaw attack,
00:42:01where one gang allegedly targeted another
00:42:04over drug territory.
00:42:07Amar Shehzad and Heza Ayaz
00:42:09were first to be arrested,
00:42:11but both were released due to a lack of evidence.
00:42:15Mohamed Shehzad remains under questioning,
00:42:17while suspected ringleader Amar Khan
00:42:20has fled the country.
00:42:23But now, one of the victims has woken from a coma
00:42:26and provided more information.
00:42:29So, he was sat in the driver's seat initially,
00:42:33and then when the vehicle is rammed,
00:42:37as he's getting attacked,
00:42:39he sort of goes to the back of the vehicle
00:42:42for safety
00:42:43and then crouches in between the back seat wells.
00:42:52They spent some time in the hospital
00:42:54because of his injuries.
00:42:55They were quite serious.
00:42:58We interviewed him.
00:43:00He provided a very detailed account
00:43:03of the incident and what he went through.
00:43:08He explained that he recognised
00:43:10some of the suspects,
00:43:13well, recognised their voices,
00:43:14because they all had placed masks on, et cetera.
00:43:19He said, he remembers one of them
00:43:21shouting the name Monkey Amar.
00:43:27And then he remembers another one saying,
00:43:31it's me, Heza.
00:43:34And he recognises both boys and both people
00:43:37as Amar Shehzad and Heza Ayaz.
00:43:42With one of the victims
00:43:44identifying Amar Shehzad
00:43:45and Heza Ayaz at the scene,
00:43:48police have fresh grounds
00:43:49to rearrest them.
00:43:57Hello, Miss, you OK?
00:43:58Is Heza in?
00:43:59Is it OK to come in?
00:44:01Is he upstairs?
00:44:03Yeah.
00:44:03Make it do us a favour.
00:44:04Can you put your hands like this for me, please?
00:44:07All right, Heza Ayaz.
00:44:08The fire is currently
00:44:10half six in the morning
00:44:11and you're probably under arrest
00:44:12under new evidence about a temp murder.
00:44:15Follow these officers, mate.
00:44:18Go get the hard drives, mate.
00:44:20I'll see some guards.
00:44:21On arrest,
00:44:22the team wants to gather CCTV footage
00:44:25from the suspect's home.
00:44:27The only thing that we're going to need to say,
00:44:28I'll just bring my supervisor
00:44:30with this little hard drive box down here.
00:44:40With the two suspects back in custody,
00:44:43detectives must prove Amar Shehzad
00:44:45and Heza Ayaz were at the scene.
00:44:47Their phone data doesn't place them
00:44:50in the area at the time of the attack.
00:44:53But now, officers focus on a new piece of evidence.
00:44:57Footage that we obtained from his home address
00:45:00on arrest
00:45:02captures him
00:45:03many hours before the offence,
00:45:06leaving his home address.
00:45:10And you start to see the clothing that he's wearing.
00:45:14Dark-coloured trousers.
00:45:17And importantly,
00:45:17he's got this light-coloured stretch
00:45:20down both sides of the leg.
00:45:25So that light-coloured marking
00:45:27is consistent with the trousers
00:45:30worn by the gunman at the scene.
00:45:36So that's then when we started looking at his movements
00:45:41with the idea that he is the gunman.
00:45:45And from the markings on the trousers,
00:45:47we can be confident that he's the person
00:45:50who handled the gun at the scene.
00:45:52It's key evidence
00:45:53against suspected gunman Heza Ayaz.
00:45:56But police are still urgently trying to identify
00:46:00the other violent attackers.
00:46:02Now, new CCTV from a petrol station
00:46:06could help uncover more suspects.
00:46:10So one of the vehicles that arise
00:46:12at the Bentley Moore Club
00:46:12to drop off some of our offenders
00:46:14is a silver Passat.
00:46:17We track that silver Passat backwards.
00:46:20Eventually, we track it back to a petrol station.
00:46:24It's done the rounds prior to the offence,
00:46:26out drug dealing.
00:46:27And in that vehicle,
00:46:29it's clearly Cameron Moore and Shaz Abamood.
00:46:34They then get a call from Amar Khan
00:46:36as he makes his way towards the Bentley Moore Club.
00:46:39And we see that vehicle move in.
00:46:41So they've been given the go-ahead.
00:46:45And that's Cameron Moore and Shaz Abamood
00:46:47arriving in the offence.
00:46:56With the recovery of this footage,
00:46:59Major Crime Team 1 strikes.
00:47:05Eight armed response officers move in
00:47:08on the home of Shazad Mahmood.
00:47:19For the element of surprise,
00:47:21the chainsaw will cut through the reinforced UPVC door,
00:47:25unlike a standard battering ram,
00:47:27which would cost them time
00:47:28that they cannot afford to lose.
00:47:33Police!
00:47:37Police!
00:47:40Police!
00:47:41Police!
00:47:44Open the door!
00:47:44Open the door!
00:47:46I know I'm drop!
00:47:48I'm sorry.
00:47:49Okay, mate.
00:47:49What's your name?
00:47:50Henry.
00:47:52That's him.
00:47:53Mate, you're under arrest,
00:47:54suspicion of a Ted Murdoch.
00:47:55You're going to have to say anything
00:47:56to be my own defence if you're not mentioned.
00:47:58When questions from you,
00:47:59like, you're on your court,
00:47:59and that you do say,
00:48:00maybe give your evidence.
00:48:01Do you understand?
00:48:05What's all this brown stuff, mate?
00:48:08What's all this brown stuff
00:48:09that's on the window ceiling
00:48:09you're covered, isn't it?
00:48:10What is it?
00:48:13You speak English, yeah?
00:48:17Yes, sir.
00:48:18Okay.
00:48:18I'm just asking you,
00:48:19what is it?
00:48:19Because you're covered in a substance,
00:48:22it's all over the bed
00:48:23and all over the window, mate.
00:48:24So what is it?
00:48:24You've chucked out.
00:48:25All while smoking, heroin.
00:48:27Heroin, yeah?
00:48:28Sound.
00:48:28Okay.
00:48:30Did you turn your phone off, did you?
00:48:31Sorry, turn it off?
00:48:32No.
00:48:33No?
00:48:34What's your pen number for it?
00:48:36I don't know, sir.
00:48:37You don't know the paper.
00:48:38Okay.
00:48:39The raid on Shahzad Mahmood
00:48:42uncovers Class A drugs.
00:48:44Police later arrest
00:48:45four more suspects,
00:48:47including the youngest gang member,
00:48:4921-year-old Cameron Moore,
00:48:51bringing the total to eight in custody
00:48:54over the Warsaw attack.
00:48:56But the alleged ringleader,
00:48:58Amar Khan,
00:48:59is still on the run.
00:49:01He's got two options now.
00:49:03He either hand himself in
00:49:04or he can go on the run
00:49:06for the rest of his life.
00:49:07Yeah.
00:49:09You want to bring everybody to justice
00:49:11in a case like this?
00:49:13The fact we can't get our hands on him
00:49:15is hugely frustrating.
00:49:18And something we're going to have to remedy.
00:49:21Because it's going to bother us
00:49:22until we get him.
00:49:25So that's a challenge that is ongoing.
00:49:39As part of efforts to crack down
00:49:42on drugs across the West Midlands,
00:49:44the county line's task force
00:49:45is targeting a network
00:49:47known as the KP Drugs Line.
00:49:50Whilst we can say something's a drugs line,
00:49:52we've got to prove they sell heroin,
00:49:53we've got to prove they sell crack.
00:49:56We've got to prove they've got to prove they're not my friend.
00:49:58Strip search has been authorised.
00:50:01Ryan, Lewis and Connor,
00:50:03whenever they're getting stopped,
00:50:04they've got no drugs.
00:50:06Sorry, dude.
00:50:08So we've had to go into a deeper dive
00:50:11about what the drugs line was doing.
00:50:18OK, we've got you in sight. Stand by.
00:50:22Then, on the 9th of May,
00:50:24the Operation Skybridge team
00:50:26make a crucial stop on a car.
00:50:29What have you got, lads?
00:50:31How long have you been in this car for?
00:50:33A couple hours, I mean.
00:50:35A couple hours?
00:50:36One of the occupants
00:50:38is part of Gavin's KP County line investigation.
00:50:42Connor Burns is the driver.
00:50:44We find a new individual in that car,
00:50:47which was Dylan Ford.
00:50:49He's the fourth person now
00:50:51we have identified with in this group.
00:50:57Connor and Dylan
00:50:59and Lewis have all been stopped together
00:51:00in some sort of fashion.
00:51:03£300 was in the Centre Cup holder,
00:51:05so they get searched.
00:51:06Have you got anything going to do
00:51:07with it that you shouldn't have?
00:51:08No.
00:51:10Again, yeah.
00:51:11They also get strip searched as well.
00:51:13Again, no drugs have been found.
00:51:15But what these officers do do
00:51:18is they have a look at the boys' handsets
00:51:20and when that comes back to us in intelligence,
00:51:23we check the call data
00:51:24and it's from the KP drugs line,
00:51:261466, that they had got in that car.
00:51:29When we examine and analysed that data,
00:51:31it was quite clear that the drugs line had turned off.
00:51:34It was no longer receiving or making any calls.
00:51:38There was no text messages going to
00:51:39or from that telephone number.
00:51:41And then once the stop is finished,
00:51:44that telephone number will later then reactivate
00:51:47and carry on its business.
00:51:48And we felt that that was no coincidence.
00:51:53Three days prior to this stop on the 5th of May,
00:51:56the drugs line gets topped up at a newsagent
00:51:59in Erdington on Tyburn Road.
00:52:01A male we believe to be Ryan Bowen
00:52:03walks into that shop
00:52:05and buys a voucher for the drugs line.
00:52:07So we're quite happy
00:52:07that they're acting on behalf of the KP drugs line.
00:52:11Despite no drugs being seized,
00:52:14Gavin and his team
00:52:15have established a link
00:52:16between activity on the KP drugs line
00:52:18and their four suspects,
00:52:21allowing the investigation to move to the next stage.
00:52:25We could say the KP drugs line
00:52:26was selling heroin and crack cocaine.
00:52:28What we had to show was that they were in control of it
00:52:30and it was those multiple encounters
00:52:32made by police on body camera
00:52:33that showed that they had control of it.
00:52:35We're quite happy that all these boys are involved
00:52:37and they're sitting on that drugs line
00:52:39and operating on that drugs line
00:52:40supplying heroin and crack.
00:52:42If we snare these four
00:52:43and if they're charged,
00:52:45that drugs line should stop.
00:52:47As Gavin targets the KP drugs line
00:52:50and the cash behind wider drugs wars
00:52:53in the West Midlands,
00:52:54eight men involved in the violent attack in Warsaw
00:52:58have pled guilty
00:52:59and are being sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
00:53:14I mean, they'll serve
00:53:15a minimum of two-thirds of the sentences
00:53:18they're given today.
00:53:19So anyone sentenced to 18 years, for example,
00:53:22is doing a minimum of 12 in prison
00:53:24before they can be considered for parole,
00:53:27which is a significant period of time, obviously.
00:53:31You know, a man in his early 20s
00:53:33goes to prison for 12 years.
00:53:35He's a different man by the time he comes out.
00:53:37Inevitably, because he's 12 years old.
00:53:41Hopefully, a different,
00:53:43hopefully learn some kind of lesson,
00:53:44hopefully not wanting to go back at least.
00:53:50For their part in the brutal assault,
00:53:53the eight members of the Warsaw Gang
00:53:55receive sentences totalling 118 years.
00:54:02Good sentence, yeah.
00:54:04Probably could have gone higher, in my opinion.
00:54:06Yeah.
00:54:07But at the end of the day,
00:54:07it's about putting these guys away
00:54:10for a significant period, isn't it?
00:54:12It's been my most difficult investigation
00:54:14without a shadow of a doubt.
00:54:15The complexity, the size of it.
00:54:18But sentences are really significant.
00:54:20It protects the public from these people for a long time.
00:54:22So, overall, I'm really happy.
00:54:24Great. Good to get it done as well.
00:54:27Good to get it done.
00:54:29But despite the result,
00:54:31a cloud hangs over the investigation.
00:54:34The alleged ringleader, Ammar Khan,
00:54:37continues to evade justice.
00:54:40As Major Crime Team One
00:54:42continue their search for Khan,
00:54:44another operation gathers pace.
00:54:47Gavin and his team prepare
00:54:49to move in on the KP drugs line.
00:54:51What we'll do, we'll strike at the addresses.
00:54:54If I get you fighting, head down there,
00:54:55hold, close.
00:54:57We might be a bit alive,
00:54:58so just be aware of that.
00:54:59To prevent any of the suspects
00:55:01from running or destroying evidence,
00:55:03the team plan to arrest all four men
00:55:05at the same time.
00:55:07Well, we're going to move very shortly,
00:55:09so if we all get back to cars and stuff,
00:55:10and then we'll start to make tours.
00:55:16If we only arrest two of those subjects,
00:55:18the other two are going to find out quite quickly
00:55:20that they have been arrested.
00:55:21So they're going to get rid of evidence,
00:55:23get rid of their clothing,
00:55:25get rid of drugs,
00:55:26get rid of their personal phone.
00:55:27So it's really important to us
00:55:28that, one, we get all four in at the same time
00:55:29to make a proper disruption into the drugs line.
00:55:32But, two, it also gives us
00:55:35the biggest advantage
00:55:36of getting the evidence that we're seeking.
00:55:40They lead quite chaotic lives to the Isles,
00:55:43which is unsurprising for, you know,
00:55:46people who take part in these types of offences.
00:55:49So we think we've got them down to three addresses,
00:55:52possibly a fourth address this morning.
00:55:5612 armed response officers
00:55:58join the county line's task force
00:56:00as they move in on several addresses
00:56:03around Shard End in Birmingham.
00:56:10When going into a raid,
00:56:11I have a number of concerns before we do it,
00:56:13whether we're going to be recovering drugs,
00:56:15whether we're going to be filing phones.
00:56:17I'm always anxious
00:56:18that we're not going to find them all.
00:56:21Yeah, all resources are in place for WorldClear.
00:56:23Yeah, all officers on this channel,
00:56:25it will be a strike, strike, strike.
00:56:27And also, these operations are quite high risk.
00:56:30We're crashing through people's doors
00:56:32in the early hours of the morning.
00:56:34They're not going to be particularly happy about that.
00:56:45As part of the war on drugs in the West Midlands,
00:56:48Gavin McGrath and the county line's task force
00:56:51have been targeting the funding behind the drug gangs.
00:56:55After uncovering the KP drugs line,
00:56:58they identified four suspects,
00:57:00Connor Burns,
00:57:01Lewis Simpson,
00:57:03Ryan Bowen,
00:57:04and Dylan Ford.
00:57:07Now, they are about to bring them all in.
00:57:13Thanks, Kel.
00:57:20Please!
00:57:21Don't let anyone out!
00:57:22Don't let anyone out of the door!
00:57:25Show us your hands.
00:57:27That's it.
00:57:28Yeah.
00:57:28Connor Burns is arrested first.
00:57:31Call him here, Jim.
00:57:32Yeah, entry effective, WorldClear, one detained.
00:57:37At the same time,
00:57:39other raids are taking place across town.
00:58:00Lewis Simpson is the second member of the KP drug line to be arrested.
00:58:08That's two.
00:58:10The team were hoping to find Dylan Ford at the same address as Connor Burns,
00:58:15but he's not there.
00:58:17Yeah, mate, we've got Burns at this address.
00:58:19Ford's outstanding, mate.
00:58:21I just need to find him now,
00:58:22but I'll work on that.
00:58:24All right, pal.
00:58:26Not far away,
00:58:27police approached the home of Ryan Bowen.
00:58:36All right, mate, you're all right.
00:58:37All right, come here.
00:58:38Come in.
00:58:39Come in.
00:58:41Yeah.
00:58:42Yeah, we've got glass.
00:58:47Oh, you got it?
00:58:48Where?
00:58:49Got Ryan Bowen.
00:58:52Oh, wonderful, mate.
00:58:53That's great news, mate.
00:58:55While there are no drugs,
00:58:57a large amount of cash is found at Ryan Bowen's property.
00:59:04The search of Lewis Simpson's address yields eight machetes and drug-dealing paraphernalia.
00:59:12And while evidence is being gathered,
00:59:15Gavin prepares to search the address where Connor Burns was arrested.
00:59:19This is his bedroom.
00:59:20So we've got over here,
00:59:21we've got a set of scales that are on display just behind you over there.
00:59:24There's a phone over there that's going to be of interest to us.
00:59:26We've got some cash over here that's been stacked up with a lock knife.
00:59:31And then we've got a set of keys here.
00:59:34We weren't aware he had a car.
00:59:37So we'll get these three cars checked out.
00:59:39I don't think there's been any recovery of drugs,
00:59:41but the thing is, we call these car keys,
00:59:43they're going to be in the cars.
00:59:52So far, we've executed three warrants against these suspects,
00:59:55as we plan to do.
00:59:57Dylan Ford will continue to make inquiries into where he is.
01:00:00But at the moment, so far, a good result for us.
01:00:03We never know where they're going to be,
01:00:04but we've got three out of four that we want.
01:00:11Six shoes are four, mate.
01:00:12I think it's on yourself.
01:00:13Can I get a couple of blankets, please?
01:00:15Yeah, you'll say.
01:00:18Despite compelling evidence,
01:00:20further searches of Ryan and Lewis' vehicles uncover no drugs.
01:00:25Ryan, Connor and Lewis will be subject to questioning.
01:00:28We will put the evidence to them.
01:00:31We'll accuse them of being involved in a conspiracy to supply drugs
01:00:35and give them an opportunity to account for themselves.
01:00:39As the three suspects in the KP Drugsline case are being interviewed,
01:00:44Gavin begins gathering further evidence.
01:00:50We've now got the data from Ryan Bowen's handset,
01:00:54which we've now processed.
01:00:55A drugs line is like any other business.
01:00:57They have all the same issues a regular business does.
01:00:59And Ryan's incurring expenses as part of being employed by that drugs line.
01:01:04So he's titting up his expenses so he can claim them back out of the float,
01:01:08free or free for free,
01:01:10which would suggest that payment of drugs.
01:01:12He's always been given a number of wraps for what he's done that day.
01:01:14And then there's a reference to 27 items.
01:01:17So it's very rare that they will explicitly describe drugs.
01:01:20So they'll refer to it as items or something of that nature.
01:01:23So that will indicate what he's got left over at the end of that shift.
01:01:26When I looked at his search history,
01:01:28So there's some things that he's searched for,
01:01:31such as,
01:01:33can police bug your phone?
01:01:34Why do police take photos of me on the roadside?
01:01:37So he's obviously got some sort of preoccupation
01:01:40as to what the police's capabilities are.
01:01:42Given the case that we do have,
01:01:44this is certainly strong supporting evidence
01:01:46and just strengthens the case that we already have against him.
01:01:49We have sought advice from the Crown Prosecution Service.
01:01:52Even with onodrugs,
01:01:54they determined there was sufficient evidence to charge them
01:01:56with being involved in the supply of Class A drugs.
01:01:59At this point, Dylan Ford is still at large.
01:02:02We don't know where he is.
01:02:04We feel the KP drugs line is lucrative
01:02:08and a profitable business.
01:02:09It may reactivate should we not be able to get him into custody.
01:02:20One month after the verdicts in the Warsaw attack,
01:02:27Major Crime Team 1 have had a significant breakthrough.
01:02:32After searching for Ammar Khan for upwards of a year,
01:02:39we get notification from the Turkish authorities
01:02:41that he's been arrested in Turkey
01:02:43with a false passport trying to enter the country.
01:02:47So, complete surprise for us.
01:02:49Sometimes policing just gives you those pleasant surprises,
01:02:51which is great after all that hard work.
01:02:55All we need to do is attend the airport and get him,
01:02:58so it's the best piece of news I've had all year.
01:03:02Kosh and colleague Tabitha Bridgewater
01:03:04have gone to Birmingham Airport to arrest Ammar Khan.
01:03:11Hello.
01:03:13Hello, good morning.
01:03:14You all right, there? How's it going?
01:03:15Glad to see you, mate.
01:03:18We're just going to go rear-stack, mate.
01:03:20We're just going to go rear-stack.
01:03:21You want to run the back, yeah?
01:03:23Be careful, I think I'll fracture my arm, please, this one.
01:03:25This one, OK?
01:03:26Yeah.
01:03:34Just confirm your name for me.
01:03:35Ammar Khan.
01:03:36Ammar Khan, OK.
01:03:36Ammar Khan, I'm going to be arresting you on suspicion
01:03:38of conspiracy to murder, OK?
01:03:40If you don't have to say anything,
01:03:41they may harm you defensively.
01:03:41If you don't mention one question, something is really funny.
01:03:43Four things you do say may be given in evidence, OK?
01:03:46All right, it won't be long, mate.
01:03:50It's the final piece of the jigsaw for the team.
01:03:53Each of the victims has made a full recovery.
01:03:55And with alleged ringleader Ammar Khan now in custody,
01:03:59nine suspects behind the shocking Warsaw attack
01:04:02have been charged.
01:04:06Cobblestone's my proudest achievement as a police officer.
01:04:09This arrest completes our investigation.
01:04:11We've got no further outstanding suspects,
01:04:13so it's putting Cobblestone to bed,
01:04:16which is a great achievement for us.
01:04:30There is a dog.
01:04:32Yeah, a big dog.
01:04:36Weeks after the arrests of the other KP Drugline gang members,
01:04:40police have received information about the potential whereabouts
01:04:43of their remaining suspect, Dylan Ford.
01:04:49Hello there, is it a ****?
01:04:51No, I'm ****.
01:04:53Can I come in and have a word and explain why we're here?
01:04:55Yeah. Yeah, thank you.
01:04:57We're here because we're looking for Dylan,
01:04:59and we've been told that he's been staying here, OK?
01:05:01Is he here at the moment?
01:05:03Um...
01:05:04Yeah, OK.
01:05:05We're going to have to go up and speak to him, OK?
01:05:08Dylan?
01:05:10It's the police, mate.
01:05:12All right, you know you're wanted, mate,
01:05:13so you have to come with us.
01:05:14We're under arrest and suspicion of conspiracy to supply Class A,
01:05:17all right?
01:05:18Do you understand this?
01:05:19Yeah.
01:05:24Connor Burns, Ryan Bowen, Lewis Simpson and Dylan Ford
01:05:29were all charged and convicted
01:05:31in the conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
01:05:37I'm really pleased.
01:05:39We have all four included in that case.
01:05:42They're quite challenging investigations,
01:05:44so it was really satisfying to demonstrate to that group
01:05:47that we could catch them.
01:05:50The reality is once we deal with this drug's life,
01:05:53we are simply given another one.
01:05:58So, yeah, it will be just straight on to the next job.
01:06:00We're just going to see.
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