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9 January 2019
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Jayden Moodie lived in the area with his mother, police have said.

A 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death by attackers who knocked him off a moped, in what police believe was a targeted attack.

Jayden Moodie was found wounded in Bickley Road, Waltham Forest, at 18:30 GMT on Tuesday.

Detectives believe the moped had been involved in a crash with a car, after which three men got out the vehicle, stabbed the teenager and drove off.

He died at the scene. No arrests have been made and a cordon is in place.

Jayden, who police said lived in the area with his mother, is believed to be the youngest victim to die on London’s streets in the past year.

There were 132 homicides in 2018, the highest total since 2008.

Jayden’s godmother described him as “full of life, fun loving and a ray of sunshine”.

Zoe Grant, from Nottingham, said the teenager and his mother had recently moved to London from the East Midlands to be closer to some of his family.

“He was a beautiful boy, so intelligent and had everything to live for,” she said.

“He went to London and then this happens, it’s just so unfair. The violence in London is out of hand, it’s not right.”

Marcellus Baz, who was Jayden’s youth worker when he lived in Nottingham, said he found the news of the schoolboy’s death “absolutely shocking”.

“He was a polite kid, he was really respectful. He’s a good kid,” he said.

Det Ch Insp Larry Smith, of the Metropolitan Police, said: “Everything that we have learned about this attack so far indicates it was targeted and intent on lethal force from the outset.

“We are doing everything we can to catch those who carried out this cowardly attack and bring them to justice.”

A section 60 order has been put in place, allowing officers to search anyone in the vicinity of the scene for weapons. – BBC