Jaden Moodie's teenage killer was identified as a victim of modern slavery after his father was murdered, it can now be reported.
In his evidence, Ayoub Majdouline, 19, told how his Irish mother and Moroccan father had split up when he was young.
He was abused at the home he shared with his mother and step-father, and went into care after his father died, jurors were told.
He told jurors how he sold drugs for the Mail Boys gang to "survive", despite being caught by police and locked up before.
It can now be reported that in January 2015, his father Othamane Majdouline, 48, was beaten with a hammer and stabbed at his flat in King's Cross, with another man.
Their killer, Paul O'Shea, then 37, had argued with the men after visiting Mr Majdouline to buy Class A drugs.
After attacking Mr Majdouline and his Portuguese friend Leandro Da Silva, 47, from Islington, he set fire to the property to destroy evidence.
In 2015, O'Shea, an Irishman originally from Portlaoise, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 32 years for the murders.
Ayoub Majdouline was found guilty the “cowardly and shocking” gang murder of 14-year-old Jaden on Wednesday.
He was one of five youths linked to the gang who drove around in east London in a stolen Mercedes looking for members of the Beaumont Crew gang to attack.
When they came across Jaden, who was out dealing drugs on a scooter for the Beaumont Crew, they crashed into him and “butchered” him as he lay seriously hurt on the ground.
The 14-year-old was the youngest person to die from gang violence in London this year.
Reporting by Press Association.
