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TEENAGE girl gunned down with a machine gun at a fried chicken shop was the innocent victim of local gang rivalry, a court was told today.
The shots were fired completely randomly as two people on bicycles rode past the takeaway without stopping, the Old Bailey heard.
Agnes Sina-Inakoju, 16, was standing inside the shop next to its glass window with friends when the two youths in hoodies allegedly rode up outside.
She dropped to the ground as the gunman opened fire without stopping or checking who was inside after pulling out a 9mm sub-machine gun, the court heard.
'Cold-blooded'
The killers then rode away from the Hoxton Chicken and Pizza Shop in Hoxton, North London, as she fought for life with a bullet wound to her neck.
She died two days later in hospital.
Prosecutor Simon Denison QC said: "It was as callous and cold-blooded as it could be, carried out in broad daylight in a busy street.
"Agnes Sina-Inakoju appears to have been the innocent victim of an on-going rivalry between gangs in that part of London.
"The gun that was used to kill her was one of a number of guns that lay in the hands of a gang that were rivals of a gang in Hoxton."
Alleged gunman, Leon Dunkley, and his lookout Mohammed Smoured, were members of the London Fields gang, it is claimed.
Mr Denison said: "One of them calmly took out a gun, pointed it towards the window where Agnes and her friends were and fired.:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder
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