Jamil Akhtar, his wife and three children were asleep in the early hours of Christmas morning when a pair of hooded crooks set their car on fire
This is the moment a terrified family had their car torched by arsonists as they slept inside their home on Christmas morning.
Jamil Akhtar, his wife and three children were asleep in the early hours of Christmas morning when a pair of hooded crooks set their car on fire in Colebrook Road, Birmingham - previously dubbed Birmingham's 'most lawless street.
The vehicle went up in flames shortly before 12.30am, CCTV footage shows.
They were thought to have used a magnetic device to smash the glass before hurling petrol through the passenger window.
One of the men is then shown tossing a lit match inside the car and running back to a getaway vehicle.
Less than a minute later, the car was ablaze in the small residential road, and the offenders had fled the scene.
The footage showed flames engulfing the car's interior and smoke billowing from the vehicle's window.
Dramatic images show the aftermath of the attack- with the car completely gutted from the inside out.
Father-of-three Mr Akhtar said he feared for his sons, aged one and 14, and his ten-year-old daughter after the attack.
He said: 'We're very high risk at the moment, I'm not fearing for myself, I'm fearing for my wife and my children.
'Police have come out so many times, but say they can't do anything until someone gets hurt, with the cutbacks.'
The attack allegedly followed a parking row with neighbours and threats to the family.
Mr Akhtar, 44, said the family had been told: 'We're going to burn you alive' and 'we're going to make your life a misery'.
The burned car was left completely gutted from the inside and written off in the aftermath of the attack
He said a fireproof letterbox had been fitted at the family home.
Mr Akhtar previously claimed that death threats, smashed windows, arson and even human faeces on the pavement were commonplace on his street.
Last January, he said huge rats scuttled around in houses and animals were slaughtered in gardens in the street.
He said: 'We feel so terrified. If we leave the house, we don't know what's going to be happening outside our door - or will somebody be inside the house?'
CCTV clips collected over the course of 2017 captured an insight into the alleged incidents Mr Akhtar spoke of.
One clip showed hooded bikers throwing rocks at a neighbour's home before riding off.
Another showed a large group of people gathered in the road on New Year's Eve as revellers launched fireworks from a wheelie bin and others from a hedge.
The fireworks could be seen shooting off around the street - which reportedly sent bits of metal into Mr Akhtar's car windscreen and house windows.
He said: 'We're stuck here with all this stuff that goes on on the road.
Mr Akthar says smashed windows, arson and even human faeces on the pavement were commonplace on Birmingham's 'most lawless street'. Pictured: Steering wheel after the attack
'Once we saw people from our window - they slaughtered a sheep on our street and were having a BBQ with it in the back garden.
'People put nails into my tyres, I was spending hundreds every year fixing my car.'
In other video clips he claimed he was being 'ganged up' on and threatened.
Motorbikes could also be seen driving along the pavement at what Mr Akhtar claimed were 'school finishing times'.
Unwanted furniture and litter is also dumped on a road described by Mr Akhtar as flytippers' 'favourite spot.'
Jamil and Manisha Akhtar are 'living in fear' since the Christmas Day attack
'They mess about with people's bins, they flytip their rubbish, smash beer bottles in the middle of the road.
'People are coming from the outside and carrying beds mattresses, fridges, they come and dump it here all the time its their favourite spot.'
He explained how the flytipped furniture was often set alight, along with rubbish in the street.
He added: 'Last time the fire was that bad that me and my neighbour's gates caught light and we had to call the fire service.
'There's flies everywhere, dead mice, rats the size of cats running around - it's only since we got a cat ourselves that they stopped coming in our house.
'We've had these issues for nine years now, we've been chasing it up with the council with the police, they come and go but nobody seems to be doing anything about it.' he said.
Mr Akhtar added he was scared for his children, aged, one, ten and 14, and his wife as the police have failed to act
'I've lost count of how many times I've called the police, it must be over 150 since I've lived here.
'But offenders just get a tap on the wrist, police go away and I'm back to square one.
'Smoking drugs outside the house, dealing drugs in broad daylight, threats from drug dealers, this and that.
'I've had to blag my way out of it because they would have kicked my head in. They were giving me death threats.
'My children have seen so much. My daughter doesn't like to go into the garden, they throw out of date cans into our gardens like missiles and the local park is like a cannabis cafe.
'The drug dealing takes place in broad daylight - lorries have to wait behind the cars for them to get their supplies.
'My neighbours say they don't want to get involved or contact police for the fear of what may happen. We just want all this to stop happening.
'If I have to walk down my own road to get to a doctors' appointment, I walk in the middle of the road because it's safer that way - I don't trust anybody.
'Most lawless street in Birmingham': Ten serious crimes were reported on Colebrook Road in 2017- there are only 24 houses on the road
'We're scared to leave the house, if you come down in the night, and see what goes on you will be horrified.'
Ten serious crimes were reported on Colebrook Road in 2017- there are only 24 houses on the road.
They included a violent or sexual offence, three burglaries, arson/criminal damage and three vehicle crimes.
A Freedom of Information request made by the BirminghamLive to West Midlands Police revealed police were called out to the road 180 times in the last nine years - an average of 20 times a year.
Regarding the number of incidents on the street, a spokesman for West Midlands Police said: 'West Midlands Police take all incidents of criminal and anti-social behaviour seriously and will always look into reports that we receive.
'If Mr Akhtar would kindly forward these videos to us, we will investigate them.'
Of the car arson incident, the force said: 'Police are investigating an arson attack on a car in Colebrook Road, Sparkhill, in the early hours of Christmas Day (25 December).
'At around 12.30am, a Peugeot pulled into the cul-de-sac, where it stopped alongside a parked car.
'Two men got out of the Peugeot and one of them poured a fluid over the roof of the parked car, while the other man smashed the passenger window and set the car alight.
'The two men then ran back to their car and drove off.'
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Jamil Akhtar, his wife and three children were asleep in the early hours of Christmas morning when a pair of hooded crooks set their car on fire
This is the moment a terrified family had their car torched by arsonists as they slept inside their home on Christmas morning.
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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