Overview

• Jake Sanbrook, Byron Sellick and Julian Falconer were convicted at Wolverhampton Crown Court for the July 8 drive-by shooting in Walsall that killed 20-year-old Connor Brookes.
• The trio received life terms with a minimum of 29 years after jurors found the attack was a deliberate act of revenge tied to Atkinson’s 2023 murder.
• Prosecutors said a stolen black Ford Focus rolled up beside Brookes’s parked van before a gunman fired a double-barrelled sawn-off shotgun at close range.
• Bradley Sladyszyn survived despite sustaining a shotgun pellet wound to his shoulder and delivered key evidence during the trial.
• A fourth defendant, Samuel Danks-Petty, was jailed for three years for perverting the course of justice by helping to dump the getaway vehicle.