A hired spotter and getaway driver was today jailed for life for his role in a gangland shooting outside a restaurant which left a nine-year-old girl with a bullet lodged in her brain.
The girl was hit in the head by one of six bullets fired by a man on a passing motorbike as she sat with her family at the Evin restaurant in Dalston, East London.
She was an innocent victim on May 29 last year of a bloody rivalry between Turkish gangs of North London. Three men at a nearby table were also injured.
Javon Riley, 33, from Tottenham, North London, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of causing grievous harm with intent to the girl and attempting to murder Mustafa Kiziltan, 35, Kenan Aydogdu, 45, and Nasser Ali, 44.
Sentencing Riley today to life with a minimum term of 34 years, Judge Mark Lucraft KC said the gang rivalry had seen a number of 'tit for tat' murders and attempted murders in London and overseas over the past ten years.
