A teenager has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of years for the murder of – year-old Jaden Moodie, who was knocked off his moped by a car before being stabbed to death in the road.
Ayoub Majdouline, 22, who was found guilty at the Old Bailey last week, was among a group who had driven around looking for a rival gang member to attack.
Jaden was out drug dealing for the Beaumont gang in east London when he was killed on the evening of 8 January, the Old Bailey had heard.
The attack in Leyton was captured on CCTV .
CCTV shows Jaden Moodie fatally stabbedFootage played in court showed Jaden being knocked off his moped by a stolen Mercedes before he is seen lying defenceless in the road.
He was then stabbed by a group of people before the Mercedes drove off.
Jaden suffered nine stab wounds and bled to death in the road as the car sped away, the court heard.
In a victim impact statement, Jaden’s mother, Jada Bailey, described his killing as “barbaric”.
Majdouline, from Wembley, north London, had denied murder and possession of a knife.
He was seen on CCTV at a Travelodge in Walthamstow on the day before the attack.
The teenager was wearing yellow rubber gloves, one of which was later found to have traces of the victim’s blood and the defendant’s DNA, the jury was told.
Majdouline had a troubled upbringing in Leyton and had turned to drug dealing for older boys to make money.
His Irish mother and Moroccan father split up when he was aged seven.
Majdouline’s father died in (******************************************, so the teenager went to live with an aunt and later went into foster care, his trial heard.
He was identified by the National Crime Agency in 2018 as a victim of “modern slavery”, amid concerns of exploitation by older youths.
Referring to Majdouline’s background, Judge Richard Marks said: “Your life has, through no fault of your own, been blighted by huge personal difficulty from a young age.”
The teenager said in court he sold drugs “for and with” the Mali Boys gang, including county lines in Basingstoke, Ipswich and Andover.
He had been caught with drugs and carrying knives, but despite serving time behind bars , went straight back to dealing, the court heard.
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He said he returned to drug dealing after a few weeks of volunteer work, adding: “I felt I had to make money the only way I knew how to make money. “
Majdouline said the majority of the older Mali Boys were Somali, but” black boys, Asian boys and white boys “sold drugs for them.
He explained why he had been given a knife to carry while dealing, saying he had been” sliced ”on one occasion in Basingstoke.
Majdouline said: “Because I was selling drugs for this older guy in Leyton and obviously when I was selling drugs, a lot of people I was selling drugs to were older than me.
) “He did not want me to get robbed or lose his drugs so he gave me a knife … to hold a knife to sell drugs for my own safety.”
In a series of agreed facts read to the court, jurors learned that Jaden had been in trouble with police since he was 14.
He was handed a youth conditional caution in March last year after police seized an air-powered pistol, Rambo knife and cannabis during an altercation in Nottingham.
He admitt ed appearing in a Snapchat video with an imitation firearm in November last year.
Jaden had been found with crack cocaine at an address in Bournemouth the previous month, jurors were told.
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