This is the shocking moment a gang hack at a man with huge machetes and brutally attack him after knocking him to the floor.
A horrified resident captured the footage from the window of a nearby home on Trinity Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham.
Two thugs brandishing 3.5 foot long machetes can be seen using them to repeatedly strike the victim on his head and body as he cowers on the ground.
A gang chase a victim with huge machetes and hammers on Trinity Road, Perry Bar, Birmingham, before carrying out a vicious attack
The men repeatedly kick the victim, stamp on his head and batter him with hammers
Other members of the gang throw vicious kicks, stamp on the victim’s head and use hammers to beat him.
Two members of the public bravely step in to confront the thugs, who sprint away down the road.
One of the men who intervenes in says: ‘What the f***k are you doing?’
Terrified neighbours called 999 and police officers chased the gang on foot to a nearby road.
The victim cowers on the ground as he is slashed with a 3.5 foot long machete before the gang suddenly run off
Police tracked down and arrested two men on Aston Lane carrying a 3.5 foot machete, a hammer and a rubber mallet
Police tracked down and arrested two men on Aston Lane carrying a 3.5 foot machete, a hammer and a rubber mallet.
It comes as recent figures show that knife crime in Birmingham is at its highest in eight years – up 19 per cent since 2017.
And the West Midlands has seen the biggest increase in knife crime of any part of the country outside London, with almost 3,000 incidents reported last year.
Meanwhile, knife possession offences have also rocketed by 159 per cent, according to figures from police.
West Midlands Police today said: ‘Two men aged 20 and 28 were arrested on Aston Lane, Perry Bar at 3.40pm on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon’.
‘Fantastic teamwork by A Unit Newtown and the public (who called us initially) , responding to a call of males brandishing a machete and hammers. Arrived quickly on scene and detained the males after a chase. 2 in custody!’
Cars can be seen driving past the incident as the gang carry out the vicious attack
The number of murders in the UK has soared by 14% as the number of knife crimes and robberies also rises.
This week stabbing deaths in the UK hit 250 this year, with five of those murders coming in the past seven days in London alone.
London is at the centre of fears of rising levels of violence, after the number of killings in the capital topped 100 this summer.
This has increased the number of murder investigations in London to 120 this year.
The number of murders, knife crimes and robberies all went up in the last year according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics last month
This comes as 16-year-old John Ogunjobi who was stabbed to death on November 5 by a number of suspects in south London.
The teenager collapsed in the street and died in front of his devastated parents, with one witness describing his mother screaming at the scene.
John was one of five people stabbed to death in London last week in the capital.
John Ogunjobi, was stabbed to death by a number of suspects last week in south London
Frenzied stabbings and gangland murders on the streets of London sparked a row between police and Sajid Javid.
Earlier this week, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said Home Office rules were making it harder for her officers to work.
She slammed a failure to introduce laws allowing police to use facial recognition and said more funding is needed.
It came after a row over whether cuts in funding are linked to rising crime as the force investigates its 120th murder this year.
Mr Javid said it was not fair to place to blame solely on his department.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick have disagreed over exactly how much help police are getting from Government
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