Promising student Agnes Sina-Inakoju, who hoped to go to Oxford University, was shot in the neck using a submachine gun as she waited to buy pizza at a takeaway shop in east London.
Police investigating the killing later found a cache of weapons and ammunition hidden under the bed of a nine-year-old boy in Hackney whose 15 year-old brother had links to the London Fields gang that carried out the killing.
Teenagers had been intimidated by older members of the gang to store them, it emerged.
Agnes became the unwitting victim of "gang warfare" when she was shot dead by Leon Dunkley in east London in April last year.
Dunkley, a senior member of the London Fields gang, fired through the window in a "callous and cold-blooded" attack.
He and fellow gang member Mohammed Smoured cycled to the Hoxton Chicken and Pizza Shop before Dunkley pulled out his gun and fired without looking at who he was aiming at.
The court heard that when speaking about Agnes’s death Smoured told a friend: "It's funny, the way she dropped."
Dunkley, 22, and Smoured, 21, who acted as look-out, were each convicted of murder by a 10-1 majority at the Old Bailey. They were each told they must serve at least 32 years in prison.
Judge Peter Beaumont, the Recorder of London, said: "Gun violence with loaded weapons that imperils innocent people on the streets of London has to be stopped." Continued
The court heard that when speaking about Agnes’s death Smoured told a friend: "It's funny, the way she dropped."
Dunkley, 22, and Smoured, 21, who acted as look-out, were each convicted of murder by a 10-1 majority at the Old Bailey. They were each told they must serve at least 32 years in prison.
Judge Peter Beaumont, the Recorder of London, said: "Gun violence with loaded weapons that imperils innocent people on the streets of London has to be stopped." Continued
