Man guilty of drive-by outside Dalston restaurant linked to gang feud

A man has been found guilty of causing serious harm to a nine-year-old girl and attempting to murder three men outside a restaurant in east London, in a case linked to a long-running feud between rival Turkish criminal gangs. Javon Riley, 33, from Tottenham, north London, was convicted at the Old Bailey after a three-week trial of conspiring, in effect, to facilitate a drive-by attack that left a young girl with a bullet lodged in her skull and three men wounded at the Evin Restaurant in Dalston on May 29 last year.

The court heard that a rider on a Ducati Monster motorbike fired six shots at diners outside the restaurant, striking the girl in the head and injuring the three men seated nearby. The girl cannot be named for legal reasons. Prosecutors alleged the shooting was a planned assassination connected to the feud between the Tottenham Turks and the Hackney Turks, also known as the Bombacilars, with the victims and those who ordered the attack tied to opposing sides. The gunman who fired the shots has never been traced.

Riley admitted to picking up the gunman shortly after the attack, but he claimed he believed the operation was a smash-and-grab and that he did not know it...