November 2019. The mother of a 14-year-old boy hunted down and knifed to death in gang violence said she will never forget the image of her youngest child lying face down in a pool of his blood. Jaden Moodie was dealing drugs on 8 January in Leyton, north-east London, when he was mowed down by a car. As he lay in the road, he was repeatedly stabbed by a rival gang. One of his attackers – 19-year-old Ayoub Majdouline was found guilty of his murder on Wednesday. Jaden’s mother explains how her son became embroiled in a drug turf war. Jada Bailey was cooking at home in Walthamstow when she got a knock on the door on the evening of 8 January. “It was Jaden’s friends. They told me that he was not responding. I didn’t know what they were talking about at first,” she said. Jaden had been riding down Bickley Road on a moped at about 18:30 when a Mercedes ploughed into him head on, launching him over the car’s bonnet. He was then set upon and stabbed to death within seconds. “I ran [there] with my two daughters,” Jada said. “Everything was taped off and there were lots of police and paramedics. I will never forget being pulled to one side and being told Jaden was no longer with us. “At that moment I was just in disbelief – in a state of shock. I asked immediately to see him – and when I saw him, he was laid out in the crucifixion pose. “That image has not left me.” Sickening. The Violence on our streets has to be Challenged and Defeated.
Nov 2019. The Jaden Moodie Killing
