Man guilty of shooting that left girl with bullet in brain

A man has been found guilty of the shooting of a nine-year-old girl and three men outside a London restaurant in a long-running gang feud.

- ANNA LOREN

Javon Riley, 33, denied three charges of attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the girl. The man from Tottenham was found guilty at the Old Bailey yesterday after a trial.

The young victim was eating dinner with her family when the rider of a Ducati Monster motorbike fired six shots outside Evin restaurant on Kingsland High Street in Dalston, east London, on 29 May 2024.

A bullet lodged in the girl’s brain, and three men sitting at another table were wounded in the thigh, leg and backbone, the Old Bailey heard.

The nine-year-old, who lives with the bullet still in her brain and suffers long-lasting physical and mental effects from the shooting, cannot be named because of her age.

The prosecution said the shooting was a “planned assassination” amid a dispute between rival gangs, the Tottenham Turks and the Hackney Turks, also known as the “Bombacilars”.

The men seated outside the restaurant — Mustafa Kiziltan, Kenan Aydogdu and Nasser Ali - had affiliations towards the Hackney Turks, and the ones who had ordered the shooting were from the Tottenham Turks, it was claimed.