A HIT squad has been jailed for more than 30 years after being hired to shoot a young man for £500.

The three men travelled from Birmingham to Crawley, in Sussex, with a double-barrelled sawn-off shotgun and fired through Jaspal Sandhu’s front door.

The 29-year-old sustained bullet wounds to his legs in the attack, while his sick wife rested upstairs.

Gunman Rudolf David Martin, known as David Martin, who was originally arrested for attempted murder, went on the run for several months after the shooting on August 3 last year.

He was eventually caught in March after he appeared on BBC’s Crimewatch in October last year.

After his arrest David Martin told police that Delroy Hare, 50, of Fleet Street, in the Jewellery Quarter, had paid him £500 to scare Mr Sandhu.

Hare along with David Martin, 43, and his nephew Daniel Martin, 30, of Sherborne Street, in Ladywood, were convicted of conspiracy to commit GBH and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life at Hove Crown Court.

They were acquitted of conspiracy to murder.

David Martin, of Baring Road, Lewisham, London, was sentenced to an indeterminate sentence for public protection, with a minimum of 11-and-a-half years.

Hare and Daniel Martin were each been sentenced to indeterminate sentences, with a minimum of ten-and-a-half years.