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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 man behind the wheel of the red Vauxhall doesn't know it yet but he - and a number of other drivers - are about to get an unwelcome surprise in the post from Hackney Council.
The scene which greets you on the corner of Morgan Street in East London has become all-too familiar in towns and cities across Britain.