A DUDLEY man was in a gang who brutally blasted a man to death with a shotgun as he sat in a parked car in a

Black Country street, a jury has been told.

Dwayne Haughton suffered catastrophic brain injuries after three shots were fired at him with the 12 bore shotgun

and he died a short time later.

Michael Burrows QC prosecuting alleged four men in a stolen Audi were responsible for the vicious killing but the motive behind the crime was unknown.

He said at least one man got out of the Audi and three shots were fired at 24-year-old Mr Haughton who was in the

front passenger seat of a Peugeot with his cousin behind the wheel.

It took only person to pull the trigger but the prosecution say all four men in the Audi which pulled up by the Peugeot were in on the planned killing, added Mr Burrows.

It was clearly the intention of Dwaine Smith, Montell Gray, Seamus Williams and Kurrum Guild to kill or cause serious injury with the shots being fired at the head of Mr Haughton.

All four men in the Audi were behind the vicious murder, he alleged, with the vehicle later being abandoned and set on fire to remove any possible evidence against them.

He told the jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court that investigating police officers were able to track the location of the stolen Audi and two other vehicles used by the four men to get away through CCTV and their mobile telephones.

Evidence would show their mobile telephones were silent at the time of the shooting in Valley Road, Wolverhampton on July 20 last year.

The men did not need to call each other because they were in direct contact and they only resumed making calls after they had safely returned to their homes.

It was a planned shooting, claimed Mr Burrows who added: "They just did not happen to have a loaded shotgun or to be in the stolen Audi or to be in Valley Road."

He alleged the four men knew what had been planned and told the jury: "The gang assembled and they had weapons and their getaway cars. All they had to do was find their target."

Smith, 26, of The Broadway, Dudley, Gray, 22, of Springfield Road, Wednesfield, Williams, 23, of Okement Gardens, Wednesfield and 22-year-old Guild of Oakthorpe Gardens, Tividale have all denied murdering Mr Haughton.

The four men have also denied possessing a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life while Smith, Guild and Williams have also pleaded not guilty to arson.

Their trial in front of Judge James Burbidge QC is continuing and expected to last for over six weeks.