Police arrest gang members after children shot in Wolverhampton playground

Three men have been found guilty of attempted murder after two children were hit with bullets in a playground when they fired shots at a rival group.

Kian Durnin, Martino De-Sousa and Tireq McIntosh were all in a stolen Ford Focus from which shots were fired towards a girl aged 11 and a 15-year-old boy as they played in Shelley Road, Wolverhampton, on May 1 this year.

Prosecutors said that the children were in the line of fire of a “murderous” feud between rival groups, which then triggered a high-speed car chase through the city “straight from the movie director’s script”.

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