"Forty years ago, Met Police officer Dal Babu came face to face with a gunman, a suspected member of an organised crime gang, who aimed at him - and pulled the trigger. He survived because the bullet got stuck in the barrel. Now retired from the force, Mr Babu said he had been called to reports of violence at a cafe in north London."
"The decades-long feud between two London gangs - the Hackney Turks and rivals Tottenham Turks - continues to terrorise communities into silence about the extreme violence brought to their streets. In May last year, a gunman pulled up outside a restaurant in Dalston, east London, and fired six shots, aiming for three men sitting outside, said in court to be affiliated with the Hackney gang."
A decades-long feud between the Hackney Turks and Tottenham Turks has driven extreme violence and fear through London communities. A Met Police officer survived a shooting when the bullet lodged in the barrel of the gun. Witnesses frequently refuse to give statements out of fear, not loyalty. In a recent Dalston attack a gunman fired six shots at three men, injuring them and seriously wounding a nine-year-old girl whose bullet remains lodged in her brain. Javon Riley was convicted of attempted murder and jailed for 34 years, while the main gunman remains at large.
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