* YOU BEEN SNAP* Found under a nine-year-old's bed: The weapons arsenal of gang who killed schoolgirl, 16"

Found under a nine-year-old's bed: The weapons arsenal of gang who killed schoolgirl, 16

BY FLORA LYIMO DESIGNER*

• Schoolgirl who dreamed of going to Oxford gunned down by gang as she queued in takeaway
• Members of notorious gang jailed for life for using sub-machine gun in killing

This is the terrifying arsenal found in the bedroom of a 15-year-old boy who hid the weapons for a pair of gangland killers.
The stockpile includes loaded sub-machine guns, automatic pistols and a shotgun, plus ammunition. One of the machine guns was hidden under the bunk beds the teenager shared with his nine-year-old brother.
The cache gives a chilling insight into the firepower of gangs running amok with lethal weapons.
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It was found by police investigating the murder of a London schoolgirl shot as she bought a takeaway.
Oxford University hopeful Agnes Sina-Inakoju, 16, was the victim of deadly feuding between rival gangs calling themselves the Hoxton Boys and the London Fields Boys.

She was shot by LFB member Leon Dunkley, 22, with an Agram 2000 9mm sub-machine gun, a weapon used by Croatian special forces during the war in the Balkans more than a decade ago. This particular gun has already been linked to at least six shootings across the capital since 2007.
Dunkley and his lookout Mohammed Smoured, also 22, were convicted of murder yesterday by an Old Bailey jury who heard that Smoured later joked: ‘It was funny, the way she dropped.’

Unwitting victim of gang warfare: Promising student Agnes dreamed of going to Oxford

They were jailed for life with a minimum term of 32 years.
The arsenal was unearthed after an officer spotted another gang member, Dwayne Wisdom, 16, throwing a rucksack containing the murder weapon over a garden wall.
He was found cowering in a cupboard when police raided his home.
On his mobile phone there were pictures of diamond-encrusted weapons and the letters L and F made out of money.
Police were then led to the 15-year-old boy’s home where they found the stockpile of loaded weapons and ammunition, including a .38 revolver and single barrel shotgun.
The Mac 10 sub-machine gun found under the bunk beds had been fired at least four times, including during an attempted murder in September 2009.
The firearm is known as ‘spray and pray’ because it is hard to aim yet is capable of firing a blistering 1,100 rounds per minute.
Wisdom and the 15-year-old were convicted of firearms offences for holding weapons on behalf of older members of the gang and will be sentenced at a later date.
There are said to be 205 gangs in London with a combined membership of about 15,000.
In Hackney alone there are 22 gangs, whose members carve up the streets according to postcodes.
In some parts of London, gang violence has reached such high levels that councils are now ferrying teenagers around in taxis because they are too scared to walk through dangerous areas.

Shot in the neck: 16-year-old Agnes Sina-Inakoju just happened to be in the Hoxton Chicken and Pizza shop that the gang chose for their reprisal

Hackney Council spent nearly £400,000 in 2009 for teenagers to take cabs because they were too scared to walk between the ‘territories’ used by gangs.
It emerged last night that nearly 700 children aged ten to 12 have been arrested since 2006 after being ‘recruited’ by gangs to take part in muggings, burglaries and to act as drug runners.
According to a Freedom of Information request, gang leaders view the children as ‘little soldiers’ who are likely to be let off with a warning if caught by police.

In cold blood: Leon Dunkley and Mohammed Smoured, both 22, shot Agnes Sina-Inakoju in the neck as they casually cycled past a chicken takeaway in north London

The London Fields Boys have terrorised the Hackney area for more than a decade but the discovery of this weapon haul reveals how their gang rivalry has reached a new and alarming level of sophisticated weaponry.
Members of the gang promoted their love of guns and violence on Facebook and their mobile phones.
They operate around the London Fields park where affluent middle-class newcomers are bringing wealth to an area blighted by years of deprivation.
In 2008, six members were found guilty of the murder of 14-year-old Shaquille Smith.

Scene of the crime: Jurors at the Old Bailey were shown harrowing CCTV footage of the scene of the murder. In this footage, Dunkley can be seen on his bike to the left of the picture just before the murder

Scene of the tragedy: Dunkley can clearly be seen on his bike outside the Hoxton Chicken and Pizza shop where Agnes Sina-Inakoju was gunned down

Army cadet Shaquille, who had no links to any gang, was stabbed to death and his sister had her face slashed as they sat on a bench.
The gang was blamed for the unsolved murder of Reginald Berko, 26, who was stabbed in 2009.
Last May a 27-year-old bystander was shot by a stray bullet as warring gangs clashed at a festival in London Fields.
Detectives believe Agnes’s killers were hunting for members of the rival Hoxton Boys after a fellow gang member had been beaten up.
Dunkley, who used the street name ‘Bacon’, and unemployed Smoured, who came to the UK from Algeria aged six, had previously been jailed for supplying class A drugs.
Judge Peter Beaumont QC said the sentences were intended to deter gun crime and the killers would not be released until they were until they were in their fifties, if ever.
He said: ‘Not only did you take a life of a young woman of great promise but you have destroyed a family’s happiness.’
Prosecutor Jacob Hallam said: ‘Anybody in that shop could have been killed. It was Agnes’s misfortune to be standing where she was.’

Snuffed out at random, a life full of promise

By CHRIS GREENWOOD

Agnes Sina-Inakoju may have been dreaming about studying at Oxford when she became the innocent victim of a gangland feud.
Two ‘cowardly’ gang members on bicycles who were hunting for a rival group indiscriminately fired a sub-machine gun through a takeaway window as she waited to buy a pizza.
Her mother Safura collapsed in the arms of her other children sobbing hysterically after Leon Dunkley and Mohammed Smoured were each jailed for 32 years yesterday.

'Lively, vibrant... and with a bright future': Agnes was a popular and successful student who had just finished her GCSEs. She died in hospital two days after she was shot with her mother at her side

Her brother described Agnes as ‘brilliant, popular and loyal’ as he revealed that the accomplished public speaker had attended an open day at Oxford only the week before her death.
Abiola Inakoju said his sister was expected to achieve A-grades in her GCSE exams and attending the leading university was a ‘realistic prospect’.
He added: ‘Her life was cut short when she was shot dead last year. We have lost a sister, a friend and a daughter. It has changed us as a family.
‘We still cannot believe she has been taken away from us at such a young age. She remains in our hearts where she will remain for ever.
‘We were looking forward to seeing her grow into a young woman and being everything she wanted to be.’

Murder weapon: An Agram 2000 9mm sub-machine gun (above) used by Croatian special forces was used to shoot 16-year-old Agnes Sina-Inakoju in the neck

Mr Inakoju said his family had been ‘torn apart’ by the murder, and added that their memories of Agnes at the ‘heart of their household’ were poisoned by the horrific circumstances of her death.
Agnes was caught in a tit-for-tat attack near her home in Hoxton, east London, on April 14 last year.
CCTV footage caught the moment her hooded killer fired a single shot through the window of the chicken and pizza takeaway.
Agnes was hit in the neck and, despite the desperate efforts of an off-duty doctor and an emergency operation on the floor of the shop, died two days later.
A group of 40 family and friends had kept a vigil outside the hospital as she lay in intensive care.
Her mother raised her five children alone after Agnes’s father left the family.

Investigation: Forensics officers at the scene of the shooting, which happened in April last year

After the tragedy she talked about her daughter going out in Hackney and said: ‘Of course I would worry about her, but how can we stop our children going out? She had to be free, to have confidence.
‘When her friends were round here I would make sure they all went home at a decent time.
‘What are the parents of these boys doing? How would a child get a gun?’
Agnes’s sister, sociology student Atinuke, said at the time: ‘I knew there was violence but I wasn’t scared for her because she wasn’t the sort of person to get involved with the wrong crowd. Not like some of the young boys round here who get pulled into things by older men, joining gangs.’
Friends said Agnes was ‘nice and bubbly’. A year before she died, she won second prize in a Hackney ‘Speak Out Challenge’ public speaking competition.
Her moving argument included the words: ‘Imagine a world without racism, a place where everyone is equal. We are all beautiful, we are all talented and we all have a future.
‘We share a world together.