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<\/div>London – The father of a schoolboy shunted off a moped and stabbed to death in the street said he hoped gang members would \u2018learn a lesson\u2019 after his son\u2019s killer was found guilty of murder on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Jaden Moodie\u2019s family had moved the 14-year-old from Nottingham to London in a desperate bid to take him away from the gang violence that had taken a grip on his young life.<\/p>\n
But six months later, he became this year\u2019s youngest victim of gang crime \u2013 murdered by drug dealers locked in a bloody turf war. Ayoub Majdouline, 19, who has himself been deemed a \u2018victim of modern slavery\u2019, was found guilty of the schoolboy\u2019s murder Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Both Jaden and Majdouline had been groomed by \u2018elders\u2019 to run county lines drug operations for their respective gangs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Jaden\u2019s father Julian, 52, told the Daily Mail: “Thank God for British justice. They killed my little boy, it is too late for him, but I hope this will teach a lesson to these young men in gangs to think, ‘is this worthwhile, or is this just madness?’ before they do something else stupid and take another life.” Jaden\u2019s mother Jada, 45, called on drug users to think about the damage their habit was causing, because children were “dropping like flies”. <\/p>\n
She added: “When they were killing him they could see he was a child. So I\u2019ve got no sympathy and no words. They were cowards. He killed a child. He\u2019s a child-killer.” Jaden\u2019s family believe his attackers mistakenly targeted the young Arsenal fan after recognising the moped he had borrowed from an older friend. Jaden\u2019s grandmother, Angela, said: “They recognised the moped, no way they were targeting him. He was just 14.”<\/p>\n
Jurors were shocked when shown horrifying CCTV footage of the killers\u2019 stolen Mercedes ramming Jaden, sending his helmet soaring above the car and his body crumpling on to the bonnet.<\/p>\n
Four men then sprinted from the car and three of them carried out the “frenzied” attack on the teenager, before running back to the car and driving off. Jaden was stabbed nine times. Oliver Glasgow QC, prosecuting, said: “Fourteen seconds was all it took. Jaden didn\u2019t stand a chance.”<\/p>\n
Jaden died in the street in Leyton, east London, on the evening of January 8. His mother and four elder siblings had moved from Nottingham to Waltham Forest, north-east London, over the summer of 2018 to be closer to his grandmother and \u2018make a new start,\u2019 having been caught up in gang violence in the Midlands.<\/p>\n
“They moved away from the gangs up there, the gangland stuff is just too much in Nottingham,” one family member said. But it wasn\u2019t long before London\u2019s thriving gang culture took hold of the impressionable teenager.<\/p>\n
The Beaumont Crew, also known as Let\u2019s Get Rich, has been one of the biggest gangs in Waltham Forest for almost 30 years. <\/p>\n
Jaden became the gang\u2019s youngest member after lying about his age to recruiters, the court heard. The gang is locked in a fierce rivalry with a gang known as the Mali Boys, of which Majdouline is a member.<\/p>\n
It can also now be reported that Majdouline\u2019s trial coincided with another case at the Old Bailey involving the Mali Boys. Hamza Ul Haq, 21, Loic Nengese, 19, and a 16-year-old were found guilty of shooting dead Joseph Williams-Torres, 20, in March last year. The trials were briefly halted after a fight broke out in the cells between Majdouline and Ul Haq.<\/p>\n
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Four other young men involved in Jaden\u2019s killing are still walking the streets. CCTV shows two other men stabbing and kicking the schoolboy, while another man stands and watches. A fifth man remained at the wheel of the stolen Mercedes.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Dave Hillier of Scotland Yard said last night: “Our work is not over yet. We know that there were five people in that black Mercedes. Rest assured, our investigation is continuing around the clock and will continue to do so until all those responsible for Jaden\u2019s murder are brought to justice.”<\/p>\n
Majdouline will be sentenced next Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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Daily Mail
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