A thug linked to a brutal gangland shooting which left an innocent nine-year-old girl with a bullet lodged in her brain has been jailed for life.

Javon Riley is now behind bars after the girl was hit in the head by one of six bullets fired by a gunman on a passing motorbike at a restaurant in east London.

She was hurt while sitting with her family in the Evin Restaurant, in Kingsland High Street, Dalston, Hackney, on May 29 last year.

The girl was an innocent victim of a bloody rivalry between Turkish gangs of north London.

Three men at a nearby table were also injured.

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Riley, from Tottenham, north London, was convicted at the Old Bailey of causing grievous harm with intent to the girl.

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