Carl Campbell shooting: Alleged killers 'hunted down father before drive-by shooting'

CCTV showed an Audi Q5 leading a deadly game of cat and mouse before pulling up alongside a Ford Fiesta in West Bromwich in broad daylight.

In the passenger seat was Carl Campbell, 33, from Wolverhampton, who was shot in the face.

Alleged shooter Mohammed Humza, 20, Vikesh Chauhan, 24, who was said to have been driving the Audi, and Jaspal Rai, 25, also alleged to have been in the car, all of no fixed address, deny murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.

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At Birmingham Crown Court, the final moments before Mr Campbell was killed, captured on CCTV, were shown to the jury.

The Audi had passed the Fiesta as it was parked in a car park in Victoria Street as Mr Campbell and a friend waited to pick up a man called Joe.

It was shown to slow down near the car park before speeding up again.

The Audi then travelled down several town centre streets before heading back towards Victoria Street.

It then came right up behind the Fiesta as it turned into Dartmouth Street.

As Mr Campbell's car was stopped at traffic lights, the attackers seized their chance, pulling up alongside it and firing five shots at the front of the car.

A man, claimed to be Chauhan, had been spotted on CCTV more than an hour earlier at an Esso garage, getting disposable gloves from the forecourt before driving away again.

The court was told father-of-one Mr Campbell, originally from Low Hill, Wolverhampton, died almost instantly following the ambush at the junction of Dartmouth Street and High Street, outside The Strollers pub, on December 27 last year.

Mr Michael Burrows QC, prosecuting, told the jury on the first day of the trial Humza accepted firing a Smith and Wesson revolver at the Fiesta but had only intended to frighten Mr Campbell. He also claimed he did not know the gun was real or loaded before pulling the trigger.