New plea to track down the motorbike gunman

THE parents of a nine-year-old girl critically injured after a gunman opened fire on an east London restaurant said today they are unsure if “she will be able to speak or move again” — as police issued new images of a suspect.

- John Dunne

The girl was at the Evin restaurant in Kingsland High Street in Dalston on May 29 when she became caught up in the shooting between two rival Turkish drug gangs.

A gunman on a Ducati Monster motorbike fired “a number of shots” towards the building, hitting the girl and three men sitting outside. The nine-year-old, who is from Birmingham and had been visiting family in London, remains in a critical condition 49 days after the attack.

The injured men — aged 37, 42 and 44 and thought to be of Turkish origin — were discharged from hospital a few days later. The child’s mother and father said: “We are devastated about what has happened. Our daughter remains stable but in a critical condition.