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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Emily Pennink

Drive-by shooting of girl, nine, was supposed to be ‘smash and grab’ – accused

A self-confessed robber has admitted picking up a gunman moments after a nine-year-old girl was hit in the head in a drive-by shooting but claimed he thought it was a “smash and grab”.

The young victim was eating dinner with her family when the rider of a Ducati Monster motorbike fired six shots outside Evin restaurant in Kingsland High Street in Dalston, east London, on May 29 last year.

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