This is the shocking moment a couple of hired hitmen lob a grenade through a businessman's bathroom window in an aggressive revenge attack.
Explosive CCTV shows Stephen Cronin, 31, and Bradley Harrington, 30, sneak up to the Birmingham house, smash the window with an axe and toss the bomb inside.
As the pair sprint towards a getaway car, a flash of light bursts from the room and the blast rips off the window frame, sending it clattering on to the driveway.
But the two thugs and their bitter paymaster Danyal Gurjee, who blamed the targeted businessman for costing him £400,000, were jailed on Friday for their attack in the early hours of March 26.
As the pair sprint towards a getaway car, a flash of light bursts from the room and the blast rips off the window frame, sending it clattering on to the driveway
Gurjee, 40, had accused the 43-year-old victim of rinsing him in a failed business venture and demanded his money back in a series of threatening texts and phone calls.
He had ploughed cash into a property business venture in the Democratic Republic of Congo alongside his would-be partner, who also invested heavily.
After the deal collapsed towards the end of 2017, Gurjee, who lost his full stake in the proposed project, paid the hitmen £8,000 to exact revenge.
Dramatic footage shows Cronin and Harrington, both wearing balaclavas, wrench their way into the gated property and head towards a downstairs toilet window.
Cronin then shatters the glass with an axe before Harrington throws in the improvised grenade.
Cronin and Harrington, both wearing balaclavas, wrench their way into the gated property and head towards a downstairs toilet window
Stephen Cronin (left), 31, and Bradley Harrington (right), 30, were paid £8,000 to target a Birmingham businessman. Both men have been jailed
It caused tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage but luckily the property was empty and nobody was injured.
Detectives set about a painstaking CCTV trawl which traced the hatchback's movements for up to three miles as it headed south of the city.
Officers suspected they were heading towards the M42 and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras later picked them heading onto the motorway.
The car registration was shown to be active across Merseyside and was seen on camera heading south towards the West Midlands on the night of May 23.
Detectives also found footage of the men buying burgers at a motorway service station.
Just over a month later, on 26 June, a relative of the victim received a phone call from a man with a Merseyside accent.
The caller asked for a message to be passed on that they could
