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| Man guilty over role in shooting of nine-year-old girl in Dalston | |
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| Javon Riley was found guilty of three charges of attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent | |
| A man has been found guilty over his role in a gangland shooting that left a nine-year-old girl with a bullet lodged in her brain. | |
| Javon Riley, 33, was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the girl who was hit in the head by the first of six bullets fired from a passing motorbike at the Evin Restaurant in Kingsland High Street in Hackney, east London, on 29 May 2024. | |
| Riley was also found guilty of attempting to murder three men - Mustafa Kiziltan, 35, Kenan Aydogdu, 45, and Nasser Ali, 44 - who were sitting at tables outside the restaurant that night. | |
| The girl was an innocent victim of a bitter tit-for-tat feud between rival Turkish gangs, the Old Bailey heard. | |
| The nine-year-old girl was having dinner with her family | |
| "In a single moment, the future we had imagined for our daughter was torn away," the girl's mother said. | |
| "She was once an energetic, adventurous child - everything that celebrated movement, energy, and life. | |
| "Now, weakness on her left side means she can only watch from the sidelines, living with a titanium plate in her skull and a bullet still in her brain." | |
| She added: "As parents, we are shattered - emotionally, physically, mentally, and financially. | |
| "Each day brings new challenges, from her slower growth on one side to the emotional and mental scars that cannot be seen." | |
| The gunman and the weapon have never been found although the motorbike used in the shooting - a Ducati Monster with a white body, red chassis and red wheels - was later found. | |
| Police have offered a £15,000 reward "for information that leads to the identification, arrest of and prosecution the man who fired the weapon". | |
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