Hackney shooting: CCTV captures moment hitman on stolen motorbike targets three men outside Dalston Turkish restaurant.
Detectives from the Met Police are urgently hunting down a motorcyclist involved in a drive-by restaurant shooting that left a nine-year-old girl fighting for her life in hospital.
'We are devastated about what has happened, our daughter remains stable but in a critical condition,' her parents said. 'She only went there for ice cream and now we do not know if we will ever get our daughter back to being the smart, funny girl that she was before and whether she will be able to ever speak or move properly again.
It was previously reported that a leading gangster in the Hackney Bombers gang - who once controlled 90 per cent of the UK's heroin trade - was the intended target of the Dalston shooting. Police forensic officers in Dalston, north east London, near to the scene of a shooting at Kingsland High Street, Hackney, on May 30A source told The Sun: 'It's too early to say if the attack was directly linked to the Barcelona hit, but Kartal was an underworld figure with interests across Europe.
Baybasin had taken over as the mob boss when his brother, Huseyin Baybasin - once known as Europe's Pablo Escobar - was jailed for life in the Netherlands on drug smuggling charges himself. The shooter has still not been tracked down by detectives. It is believed the shooting was part of a gang warGunduz, who has links to the criminal world in Turkey, had been at the restaurant but left for a 15 minute period. When he returned he found three of his friends shot and the innocent child lying on the restaurant floor.
Gunduz was previously the victim of a hit when he was shot in the neck by a Tottenham Turks assassin and has himself been cleared of organising another hit.Izzet Eren , the boss of the Tottenham Turks gang, was shot seven times as he sat outside a cafe wearing shorts, sliders and a baseball cap last week. Detectives are probing if this was linked to the Dalston shooting
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS Boss of Tottenham Turks gang that carried out Dalston drive-by shooting is assassinated in Moldova Met Police officers are said to be investigating whether the gang leader's death is linked to the shooting in Dalston on May 29, according to the Mirror. 'There was a big group having dinner in the rear,' he said. 'I couldn't get my usual table so got one close to the front window.
A second resident, who also wished to remain anonymous, said: 'It's so awful. I live just down the road so it's really shocking to hear. Speaking almost two months on from the shooting, Detective Chief Superintendent James Conway repeated his appeal for information.
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