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.

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

Javon Riley allegedly picked up the gunman nearby in a stolen Nissan Juke on false plates before transferring to a Range Rover in North London.

Giving evidence on Thursday, Riley, 33, admitted being involved in various lucrative crimes but denied knowing abo

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