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Only the most ruthless criminal would point a gun at a crowded restaurant and pull the trigger, not once, not twice, but five times - yet this happened in supposedly gentrified Hackney last week.
The real target of the Hackney shooting has said he wished he had been shot in the head instead of the little girl who is still desperately fighting for her life in hospital.
More than 1,200 organised criminals, including drug “kingpins”, have been jailed after detectives infiltrated a secret phone network used by gangsters.
Jermaine Baker was shot at close range by police as he sat in the front passenger seat of a stolen Audi A6 near Wood Green Crown Court in north London in December 2015.
Jermaine Baker, 28, (pictured) was fatally shot by police as he sat in the front passenger seat of a stolen Audi A6 near Wood Green Crown Court in north London in December 2015.