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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Luke O'Reilly

CCTV shows moment man calmly buys soft drink minutes after stabbing teenager Jaden Moodie to death

Chilling CCTV shows the moment a 19-year-old smiled as he bought a soft drink just 10 minutes after knifing a schoolboy to death.

Ayoub Majdouline, 19, was one of five attackers who went on a “killing mission” to a rival’s turf, ramming into schoolboy Jaden Moodie with a stolen Mercedes before stabbing him repeatedly as he lay on the ground in Leyton. east London.

CCTV footage shows Majdouline calmly walking into a corner shop and buying a soft drink just 10 minutes after knifing the 14-year-old to death.

In the video, released by the Metropolitan Police, Majdouline laughs and smiles at the shop teller as he buys an unidentified bottle of soda.

Ayoub Majdouline (L) and Jaden Moodie (Met Police/PA)

Jaden's killers are members of the Mali Boys, a gang operating in the Walthamstow area, who had gone out that night to target their drug dealing opponents.

He was spotted riding his moped around the streets in Leyton, possibly delivering drugs for another gang, and was mercilessly killed in an attack that lasted just 14 seconds.

The schoolboy became the year's youngest gang victim.

Court sketch of Ayoub Majdouline (Elizabeth Cook/PA)

Majdouline, who had been identified as a "modern slavery" victim, had admitted drug dealing for the Mali Boys but denied being involved in Jaden's murder.

But jurors heard his DNA was found on a bloody yellow rubber glove and knife discarded after the killing.

He was given life in prison at the Old Bailey with a minimum term of 21 years plus 18 months to run concurrently.

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