++ THE INCIDENTS ++ INVOLVING GUN NO.6

2003

FEB 23: Nechells, Birmingham. Anonymous caller reports shooting outside a party at 2.55am. Police find bullet casings but no witnesses and no CCTV. No one’s willing to talk. MAR 24: Winson Green, Birmingham. Gang members seen walking through parade of shops with a gun at 2.30pm. Shots are fired and seven casings are found. JUNE 13: Winson Green. Police intelligence suggests gun is being shared by local gang the Johnson Crew. A man, 24, is shot in the arm, back and neck in a drive-by shooting at 11.30pm. Victim lives but does not co-operate. JUNE 14: Lozells, Birmingham. A car drives up to a club entrance at 4.50am and those in the vehicle open fire. A man is shot in the leg but goes home before calling for an ambulance. The victim refuses to talk to police AUG 20: Winson Green. A 19-year-old man is shot in the back and foot at 1.30am. He gives police no information.

2004

MAY 9: Birmingham city centre. Gun No.6 is used again in a gang shoot-out. Bullets hit a parked car at 4.30am. A young woman, asleep inside, escapes uninjured. JUNE 28: Hockley, Birmingham. The occupants of a car shoot at parked vehicles in a cul-de-sac. A shot goes through the wall of a house but owners refuse to give a statement. OCT 2: Aston, Birmingham. Shots are fired during a highspeed car chase at 10.55pm. Five bullet casings are found but despite CCTV and witness statements, the vehicles involved are not identified. NOV 20: Birmingham city centre. Men linked to the Johnson Crew cruise around, rushing into nightclubs. Bouncer Ishfaq Ahmed, 24, is shot dead as he attempts to stop them. Three colleagues are wounded.

2005

JULY 23: Digbeth, Birmingham: Gun No.6 is in the hands of Kemar Whittaker. He tracks down Andrew Huntley and shoots him twice in the head under a railway arch.

2009

JAN 9: Fairfield Post Office, Worcs. After disappearing for four years, Gun No.6 is used to kill Craig Hodson-Walker. During a ten- week trial, jurors heard how the gang all had previous convictions and had taken part in armed raids on other post offices. Gun no.6 is on BBC2, tomorrow at 9pm.