Two men have pleaded not guilty to murdering a 17-year-old girl in a drive-by shooting more than six years ago.
Michael Clarke, 34, and Marcus La-Croix, 36, are accused over the death of Tanesha Melbourne-Blake.
The teenager was socialising with friends when she was gunned down from a silver Vauxhall Meriva people carrier in Tottenham, north London.
Ms Melbourne-Blake was killed at about 9.35pm on April 2 2018 after a bullet struck her in the chest.
She died at the scene and the car was found burnt out in Barnet five days later.
On Friday, Clarke, from Luton, and La-Croix, of Hackney, north London, appeared at the Old Bailey via videolink from custody.
They denied Tanesha’s murder and possession of a firearm – a Czechoslovakian-made automatic self-loading pistol – with intent to endanger life.
They were remanded into custody ahead of a four-week trial at the Old Bailey from March 31 next year.
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