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Helen William

Nine-year-old girl ‘shot in head in planned assassination of rival gang members’ in Dalston

A nine-year-old schoolgirl was shot in the head when a gunman on a motorbike opened fire during “a planned assassination” of rival gang members, a court was told.

The girl was seriously injured when some of the bullets from the drive-by shooting missed their target as she was eating dinner with her family at the Evin restaurant in Kingsland High Street in Dalston, east London, on May 29 least year, the Old Bailey heard.

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