Armed gang raided rival's HQ for drugs

INVADERS LATER CAUGHT TRYING TO CONCEAL COCAINE AND HEROIN IN PARK

- BEN PERRIN

THIS is the moment a gang armed with machetes and a shotgun raided a rival’s headquarters full of cocaine and heroin worth £225,000 in Birmingham.

They had emerged from an Audi and a BMW before kicking open the front door in Sparkhill - a property used to prepare drugs for onwards sale by a group controlling six separate drugs lines across the city.

The gang who stormed the home attacked one man with a machete leaving a large slash wound and injuries to his arm.

Both groups - later jailed for more than 77 years - were seen fleeing the house on Oakwood Road.

The drugs gang fled with the Class A stash, which they tried to conceal in nearby Sparkhill Park.

West Midlands Police said the rival gang also drove around the park in an effort to recover the drugs before officers did.