Men guilty of gunfight that left girl paralysed

THREE men have been found guilty over a shooting in a south London shop that left a five-year-old girl paralysed, shattering her dreams of becoming a dancer.

Thusha Kamaleswaran was shot in the chest and shopper Roshan Selvakumar, 35, was shot in the face at Stockwell Food & Wine shop in Brixton last March.

Nathaniel Grant, Kazeem Kolawole and Anthony McCalla were found guilty of grievous bodily harm with intent.

They were also convicted at the Old Bailey of attempting to murder Roshaun Bryan. The trio will be sentenced next month.

The court heard the gunmen were trying to shoot Mr Bryan, a suspected rival gang member, when Thusha and Mr Selvakumar were caught in the crossfire.

The pair were the innocent victims of a gang feud.

A bullet hit Thusha in the chest and passed through the seventh vertebra of her spine, leaving her paralysed.

She has spent most of the past year in hospital and doctors say she will never walk again.

Mr Selvakumar has been left with bullet fragments permanently lodged in his head and the court heard if the bullet had been slightly to one side, he would have died.

Police scoured more than 700 hours of CCTV footage to track down the three gunmen.