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A man accused of shooting another man in a drug deal gone wrong has been cleared of attempted murder but found guilty of a firearm offence.

Tyrone Solomon was alleged to have fired a gun at Ibrar Hussain who was sat in a Volkswagen Golf on Hamstead Road, Handsworth , on February 1 last year.

A trial at Birmingham Crown Court heard the bullet hit the victim in the abdomen and caused multiple perforations to his bowel which required life-saving surgery.

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Solomon was arrested three days later in the back garden of his address on Hamstead Road.

A jury was told he tried to slip out of a ground floor window.

A loaded handgun was recovered from brambles nearby.

Solomon, 47, accepted havi

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