Three men are facing life behind bars today for the murder of Connor Brookes, who was shot dead in Walsall in a revenge attack for an earlier killing.

Connor and a friend were sat in a parked van in Well Lane in Walsall just before 5pm on 8 July last year when their attackers struck.

A stolen black Ford Focus pulled up alongside them, and, six seconds later, a gunman in the back of the car fired a shotgun once at them.

Connor, who was in the driver’s seat, was killed, while his friend in the passenger seat was hit in the left shoulder but survived.