IN 2017 an horrific axe attack prompted a police operation to take down Rochdale's most notorious organised gang.
The OCG known as The Adam are the focus of the new BBC Two Trilogy – The Detectives: Taking Down an OCG.
What is The Adam?
The Adam OCG are an organised crime group based on the Newbold Estate in Rochdale.
Members of the Manchester mob feature in the new-three part series – which see's specialist officers faced with an horrific axe attack in 2017.
During the first episode, it soon emerges that the main suspects in the attack are members of the Adam OCG.
With the axe attack providing a way into a wider investigation, police later launched an operation that was aimed at dismantling the entire gang.
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By doing so, the team based in Greater Manchester uncovered ''a sophisticated criminal network involved in major drug dealing, widespread grooming of children to deal drugs, witness intimidation and suspected money laundering''.
What happened in Rochdale in 2017?
In 2017, a group of tree surgeons attempted to intervene in a rage road incident on Rochdale's Newbold Estate.
Also involved in the incident was Adam OCG member Habibur Rahman – who Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard felt ''disrespected'' after one of the workmen stepped in to defend a member of the public during the road rage row.
Rahman then assembled up to 20 men for an attack which left one of the tree surgeons with life changing injuries.
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On October 17, 2017, Mohammed Awais Sajid, also known as ''Skinny'' arrived at the scene after being summoned by fellow gangster Rahman.
There Sajid attacked a teenage tree surgeon – wielding an axe at the-then 18 year old on two separate occasions.
The first slashing the victim in the chest, shattering ribs and causing a collapsed lung.
The second attack was aimed at the victim’s head.
Describing the second blow, Tim Storrie, prosecuting, said: "He followed up with a 360 degree spin of his arm, an act which was doubtless employed to enhance the speed and devastation of the attack.
"The blow itself was aimed at the victim’s head.
"He was dimly aware at this stage of the weeping of blood down into his waistband.
"He was turning his body, attempting to leave the scene.
"Through good fortune, he said he realised the axe was above him aiming for his head.
"He put his arm up to defend himself and the blade essentially severed his arm at the wrist."
After being taken to hospital following the attack, the victim's hand was partially reattached.
Despite receiving life-saving surgery, the victim has required a further five surgeries in the two years since the attack.
He will only ever recover 60 per cent use of his arm and remains physically and mentally scarred by the events, the court heard.
In the BBC Two series The Detectives: Taking Down An OCG viewers see the victim get his day in court.
His attacker was Mohammed Awais Sajid, of Kings Road, Rochdale, was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of section 18 wounding.
Habibur Rahman was jailed for four-and-a-half years on an assault charge after the court heard he used a knuckleduster to punch one of the other tree surgeons in the face, breaking his nose.
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His brother Zillur Rahman was jailed for three years for conspiracy to commit violent disorder.
Arsan Ali was also jailed for four years after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit violent disorder.
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