How mobs battling for London's heroin trade has left trail of victims

A vicious criminal network spreading from the poppy fields of Afghanistan to the streets of north London has been established by the leaders of feared mob believed to have been the intended targets of a drive by shooting that left a nine-year old girl desperately fighting for her life in hospital. The shots that were fired towards a restaurant on Kingsland High Street, Hackney last week were reportedly aimed at leading members of the Hackney Bombacilar clan, who have been involved in a long running feud with their rivals, the Tottenham Turks for control of the UK’s heroin trade. Ali Armagan a high ranking Bombacilar's member was shot and killed in February 2012 as he sat in his in his custom-built Audi A8 limousine outside Turnpike Lane tube station in north London. The Bombacilar then hit back, shooting dead Zafer Eren, 34, who had links to the Tottenham Turks outside his home in Southgate, north London. One of the most high-profile incidents in the on-going violence took place in December 2015 outside Wood Green Crown Court, north London when police shot and killed a Tottenham Turks member during a failed attempt to free two senior members of the gang who were about to appear in court.