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Two men have been cleared of murdering a man shot dead in an alleged 'ambush' attack at a Birmingham industrial estate. Gavin Parry was killed inside a car repair unit on Western Road, Winson Green , shortly before 5.30pm on April 13, 2021. The 31-year-old was captured on CCTV running into the building wearing a balaclava, bulletproof vest and holding a Second World War-style Sten machine gun. READ MORE: 'Bully' threatened to smash couple's heads in during £7,000 blackmail plot, court told But he was fatally shot in the head by someone firing a Skorpion machine gun before he could open fire himself. There were 13 people inside the unit at the time and it was not known who pulled the trigger. Following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court a jury today, Wednesday, November 5, cleared Remell Bailey, aged 28 and from Handsworth, and Dante Kalsi, also 28 and from Erdington , of murder or an alternative of manslaughter. Kalsi was found guilty of perverting the course of justice for removing Mr Parry's machine gun from the scene. For the first time Birmingham Live can confirm Bailey’s older brother Theo Bailey, aged 34 and of Handsworth, was found guilty of Mr Parry's manslaughter following a trial last year. A reporting restriction was imposed to prevent the publication of that conviction due to that jury being unable to reach a verdict on Kalsi, prompting a retrial for him. At that time Remell Bailey was still at large. He was arrested at his home in Handsworth in January this year by officers who found him hiding in a cupboard. The case was featured on BBC ’s Crimewatch at a time when both Bailey brothers were on the run. Kalsi will be sentenced tomorrow, Thursday, November 6. He is already serving 18 years and ten months for a separate shooting in Bearwood. Mr Parry was a notorious character, described as a ‘bully’ by the defendants during their evidence. He had previously been convicted of kicking a female police officer in the face, waving a sawn-off shotgun at officers in a separate incident and attacking a man in custody with a metal bar. On the afternoon of April 13, 2021 Mr Parry turned up at the Baileys’ car repair unit at the City Industrial Estate with a number of associates. Get the latest court and crime news direct via our WhatsApp community here He was riding an orange quad bike which had been stolen in Handsworth earlier in the day. CCTV from outside captured him appearing to remonstrate with Remell Bailey, who played the altercation down as a misunderstanding that was quickly resolved. But then it was alleged Mr Parry began arguing with younger males inside the unit, who had been there celebrating someone’s 17th birthday. The jury was told he ultimately stormed off in a car that had arrived with him, gesturing towards people as he left. That prompted a hastily-planned ambush attack in the event of his anticipated return. Theo Bailey was caught on CCTV trying to get into another locked unit at the site, seemingly to retrieve something. He and Kalsi then broke into the site manager’s office to turn off the CCTV at the estate. But crucially, Bailey forgot about a separate camera system outside his own unit, which ultimately yielded vital evidence for the police. Mr Parry returned around 25 minutes later - shortly before 5.30pm. He exited a car, ran down the driveway and into the Baileys’ unit but was instantly killed by two bullets to his head. They had been fired from a Skorpion machine gun which unloaded eight bullets in total. Two of them also hit a man named Tariq McLarty who was struck in the neck and hip area. A nearby van driver was forced to take him to hospital and he survived. Most of the others who witnessed the shooting fled the scene. Kalsi was recorded removing at least one of the machine guns, neither of which were recovered. Theo Bailey called the police at 5.27pm, but mid-conversation appeared to remember he had neglected to disable his own CCTV system. It was he who approached officers upon arrival a few minutes later, claiming he was not present when the shooting took place and that he did not know how Mr Parry had been killed. Both he and his brother were arrested, questioned and released under investigation before they ultimately went to ground when a further arrest warrant was issued. Remell Bailey told the court he had received a threat to life warning from police, and also said his family home had been shot at. Kalsi was arrested at his home in Erdington in June 2021. Rounds of ammunition matching those which killed Mr Parry were recovered from his shed. Simon Denison KC, prosecuting the second trial, described the attack as an ‘ambush’ which amounted to a ‘planned shooting’. Remell Bailey told the court he had ‘nothing to do’ with any plan to kill Mr Parry and he ducked down behind a car when he saw him run into the unit and did not see who shot him. Theo Bailey, who was in charge of the family car repair business at the time, gave a similar account at his trial. Kalsi said he was rolling a cannabis joint in an upstairs room inside the unit when he heard gunshots, adding he did not know who fired them. He admitted removing Mr Parry’s gun afterwards thinking ‘if he gets up, he is going to shoot everyone he sees’.
