A GUNMAN accidentally shot his hitman pal as they were going to a planned shooting, leaving him to take a taxi to hospital.
Adam Liaqat, 19, and Asad Khan, 22, were parked up when their gun went off in St Paul’s Road, Smethwick, shortly before 4.30am on November 23 last year.
Liaqat, who was driving, fired the gun in error, leaving his accomplice with serious leg injuries, the said.
The Outlander the pair were in had been stolen from Rowley Regis the previous evening.
Both men have now been convicted of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.
Liaqat has been jailed for 15 years while Khan has been banged up for 13 years.
A third man, Yakuba Sawaneh, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Khan was left to get a taxi to hospital where he initially claimed to be unclear about what had happened
During an investigation, cops discovered a message between Khan and someone else which indicated he and Liaqat were on their way to conduct a shooting “before their mishap”.
Police arrested Liaqat on December 2 after a pursuit with a Accord, which he was driving despite only being a provisional licence holder.
His passenger was Sawaneh and items including Class A and a burner phone were thrown from the windows as the car was pursued and then stopped in Oldbury.
Liaqat, from Sandwell, was jailed at Crown Court on Monday, had also been found guilty of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.
Khan, also from West Bromwich, had already been sentenced for possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life/enable another to do so and possession of a Class A drug.
Sawaneh, 19, from , was found guilty of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.
He was jailed in September for 42 months.
