When a gunman riding a powerful motorbike pulled up outside a busy restaurant in north London and fired six shots in two seconds, the first bullet shattered the glass and hit a nine-year-old girl in the head.

Police say it came just millimetres from killing her and it is a "miracle" she survived, making a good recovery after spending more than three months in hospital, where her skull was rebuilt with titanium.

The girl, who was eating ice cream at the time of the shooting, still has the bullet lodged in her brain and is expected to have physical and cognitive difficulties for the rest of her life.

The intended targets of what prosecutors called an "assassination" attempt at Evin restaurant in Kingsland High Street, Dalston, on 29 May last year were a group of men sat eating and drinkin

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