Overview
- An 11–1 jury at Birmingham Crown Court found Ayub guilty after more than 14 hours of deliberation.
- Judge Simon Drew KC confirmed a mandatory life sentence, with the minimum term to be set at a December hearing.
- Ali Riyan was shot in the neck while riding pillion on an e-bike in Alum Rock on October 19 and died in hospital on October 21.
- Prosecutors said Ayub drove a rented Mercedes obtained using a friend's licence photo; it was driven extensively before the attack and recovered the next day.
- Police cited web searches such as "getaway driver of a murder UK" plus a text saying "If I get bagged it's 35 years," and said Ayub fled overseas before his January arrest on return.