FESS UP OR THEY’LL KILL YOU OFF NEXT
Uncle urges thugs: Turn yourselves in PLAYER, 18 IN DRUGS SLASHING
THE adopted “uncle” of executed moped teen Jayden Moodie last night urged his killers to hand themselves in to police.
Josh Grant warned the three thugs who stabbed the 14-year-old after knocking him off his bike would be found out and at risk of revenge attacks.
Witnesses said the trio took turns to stab the youngster after their black Mercedes B Class drove into him during the rush hour in Waltham Forest, north-east London, on Tuesday.
The killers fled leaving Jayden to die in the street.
Police found their car abandoned a mile away and are awaiting the results of forensic tests.
Josh, who helped look after Jayden while the youngster was living in Nottingham with his godmother, said he feared he may have “fallen in with the wrong crowd” since moving to London six months ago.
If he had got involved with gangs, his killers were marked men.
Josh said: “I would say to them you’re better turning yourselves in really, because you’re going to get caught. You’re going to get found out.
“It’s better the police find you than other people.”
Josh, who described Jayden as his “nephew” in an online tribute, said the boy was a good kid.
But he was an “outgoing lad” and could have been led astray.
He said: “When I was growing up the gangs were 16, 17, and 18. Now they are like 13 and 14.”
Yesterday Jayden’s mum
Jada wept as his cousin
hmeTRAGIC: Yesterday’s Star Leon Green urged witnesses to come forward. He said the keen boxer – who once met world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua – had been “brutally murdered”.
But he denied the teen was linked to any gang.
Leon added: “Jayden was someone who had so many hopes and dreams.
“He loved sport and was due to start at a boxing club later this month.”
Jayden’s 18-year-old sister Leah insisted: “It wasn’t gang violence. My brother was caring.” A TEENAGE Premier League hopeful has been jailed for eight years after a broad daylight knife attack in a city park.
Callum Edwards, 18, had been scouted by three top clubs but turned to crime after school.
He became a “runner” for a north London gang, selling Class A drugs to clients in Hampshire.
Winchester Crown Court heard that on one trip, he and gang member Che Yethman-Spaine, 20, attacked 44-year-old Jamie Royall in Southampton last March.
The pair believed Mr Royall had stolen drugs and launched an “unprovoked” knife attack.
Edwards slashed him across the hand and Yethman-Spaine stabbed him in the neck.
Yethman-Spaine was convicted of attempted murder and jailed for 14 years.