‘Confession of accused ride-by plotter caught on police bug’

A career criminal who claims he unwittingly drove a gunman away from the scene of a shooting of a nine-year-old girl told a court he was too scared to call the police. The girl was shot in the head by a stray bullet aimed at three men. She will suffer ‘physical and cognitive difficulties throughout her life’ after one of the bullets lodged in her brain, jurors heard. The girl was dining with her family at Evin restaurant in Hackney…