Jurors in the trial of three men accused of firing shots into a shop which left a five-year-old girl paralysed from the waist down have retired to consider their verdicts.

Thusha Kamaleswaran was hit in the crossfire of a gang feud as she played in her uncle’s shop in Stockwell last March, the Old Bailey has heard.

Another man, 35-year-old Roshan Selvakumar, was also hit in the face during the shooting.

One of the defendants in the case, Anthony McCalla, 20, of Oakdale Road, Streatham, previously told the court he felt ‘remorseful’ after the incident.

He thought the group was going to rob a drug dealer of 1kg of cannabis, jurors heard.

McCalla and his alleged accomplices Kazeem Kolawole, 19, from Kennington and Nathaniel Grant, 21, from Kennington all deny grievous bodily harm.

They also deny the attempted murder of another man who it is alleged they were chasing when they cycled to the shop, and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.