THREE men are facing lengthy jail terms after they were convicted for their parts in a drugs feud which led to shots being fired at two East Lancashire homes.

An innocent mum, Shabir Begum, was injured by flying glass after gunman Kassam Nadeem fired a sawn-off shotgun at a family home in Richmond Road, Accrington, in June 2017.

Jurors at Preston Crown Court were told the intended target was Waheed Hussain, who was said to have owed a drugs debt.

Prosecutors said that around a month earlier Nadeem had also blasted a house in Beaconsfield Road, Haslingden, with a shotgun.

Hafizur Rahman was also said to have owed a drug debt, this time to Hasriat Khan. But the gunman bungled the shooting and instead targeted his brother Sadiqur's home next door.

Mr Rahman had received a threatening phone call from one of Khan's pals, Louis Ojapah, shortly before the shooting, the court heard.

Nadeem, 27, of no fixed address, was found guilty after a trial of two charges of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause violence and one charge of possession of a sawn-off shotgun.

Khan, of 32, of Moorland View, Ramsbottom, was convicted in his absence of involvement in the Haslingden conspiracy alone. Ojapah, 26, of Peel Street, Liverpool, was found guilty on the same charge.

Umar Hamid, 27, of no fixed address, was found not guilty of involvement in both conspiracies. And Ikhlaq Hussain, 30, of no fixed address and Abid Hussain, 33, of Higher Antley Street, Accrington, were also cleared of taking part in the Accrington shooting.

Trial judge Heather Lloyd directed a not guilty verdict on a conspiracy charge, also over the Accrington incident, for Amer Hussain, 27, also of Higher Antley Street, on April 1.

Nadeem, Khan and Ojapah were each remanded in custody by Judge Lloyd and will be sentenced on May 30.

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Prosecutor Keith Sutton told jurors that one day after the Accrington shooting, Nadeem was travelling in a BMW southbound along the M6 when a police patrol intervened and urged the driver to pull over at the next exit.

Mr Sutton said instead, the BMW swerved back onto the motorway. Police later caught up with the car, which had Nadeem as a passenger.

A member of public drove up and informed officers he had seen something being thrown out of a vehicle at junction 19. Police returned to the junction and recovered a shotgun.