Men jailed for takeaway shooting

Agnes Sina-InakojuAgnes was shot in the neck through a window of the takeaway shop
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Two men have been found guilty of murdering a 16-year-old girl who was shot in an east London pizza shop.

Agnes Sina-Inakoju was fatally wounded at the takeaway in Hoxton Street, Hackney, in April 2010.

She was unwittingly caught up in a gang feud when she was shot in the neck by a bicycle-riding gunman who fired through the shop’s window.

Leon Dunkley, 22, and Mohammed Smoured, 21, both of Hackney, were convicted at the Old Bailey.

Agnes was a “popular and successful” teenager who was considered a potential Oxbridge candidate by her school, the court heard.

Dunkley and Smoured, both members of the London Fields gang, had cycled up to the Hoxton Chicken and Pizza Shop where Dunkley pulled out his submachine gun and fired through the shop window.

Jurors saw CCTV footage taken from inside the shop where Agnes could be seen playing with her friend’s hair seconds before the attack.

Another friend ducked down when she spotted the gunmen outside but Miss Sina-Inakoju was shot in the throat as she looked up to see them.

The footage showed her falling to the ground and rolling over clutching her face.

Agnes died 36 hours later. The murder was described as a “callous and cold-blooded” attack in court.

Both men are due to be sentenced later.

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