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Police in Birmingham have made a new appeal for help following a ‘vicious and sustained attack’ on a jeweller and his nephew.

The pair were attacked when they returned to an address in Smethwick at around 5.30pm on Saturday January 11.

As the jeweller parked up their silver Vauxhall Vivaro van his 16-year-old nephew waited on the driveway.

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Seconds after the jeweller got out of the van, they were ambushed by a masked man who immediately sprayed the younger man in the face with some sort of gas.

The first attacker was joined by two other men - one of whom had forgotten to pull his mask down - and the gang set about the victims with crow bars and sticks in an attack lasting about three minutes.

The victims were savagely beaten and kicked and both suffered serious injuries. The beating only stopped when a fourth gang member pulled up in a red Volvo V40 on false plates.

He threatened the jeweller with a double-barrelled shotgun and ordered the man to give him the keys to the van.

The gang then drove off in the Volvo and the van. Both these vehicles were later recovered by the police.

The van contained more than £300,000-worth of jewellery.