GANG LOCKED UP FOR REVENGE SHOOTING

WARRING gangs intent on tit-for-tat violence are plaguing the streets of Walsall, leaving two dead, countless lives ruined and 10 killers caged.

- ANNABAL BAGDI News Reporter

The mob behind the shooting of Connor Brookes have recently started life sentences, the latest development in the 'revenge' for the murder of their friend Bailey Atkinson.

In 2023, Bailey was slaughtered in an attack described by one detective as one of the 'most ferocious' they had ever seen. His seven killers were jailed for more than 130 years in May 2024. Two of them were Patrick Brookes and Benjamin Wilkes.

Just six weeks later, Connor was gunned down in a drive-by shooting and his friend Bradley Sladyszyn was shot in the shoulder.

Bailey's friends Jake Sanbrook, Byron Sellick and Julian Falconer were the culprits behind the brazen shooting.

Their accomplice Samuel Danks-Petty, who had helped the trio of killers, was also his friend and it later emerged that Connor and Patrick Brookes are brothers, while Bradley Sladyszyn and Benjamin Wilkes are cousins.

Relatives still insist that Connor was not in a gang and was an innocent victim caught up in the mess created by the rival groups.