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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Real target of Hackney drive-by shooting that left girl, 9, critical, says: 'I wish it had been me'

A man believed to be the intended target of a shooting in Hackney that left a nine-year-old girl fighting for her life has said he wishes he had been shot instead of her.

The man - who is understood to be linked to the Turkish criminal underworld - was reportedly outside Evin Turkish restaurant in Dalston, east London, just a quarter-of-an-hour before a gunman opened fire there on Wednesday night.

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