Two Birmingham brothers have been convicted of running a £200,000 “chop shop” racket which saw stolen cars stripped down in a back-street lock-up.
High-value motors swiped from across the Midlands were taken apart at Usman (pictured) and Mahmood Khalid’s Sparkbrook garage. But their criminal empire when smashed when a tracked fitted in a Range Rover led police to their base – just half-an-hour after the 4x4 was stolen from Old Warwick Road in Solihull early on June 26, 2014.
Officers who raided it at 1am found parts from seven cars and Mahmood inside breaking up the latest arrival.
The parts were linked to car thefts between April and June 2014. Some were stolen after keys were taken during house burglaries but others were taken after on-board computers were hacked.
