This 14 Year old moped rider stabbed
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46818277
A car believed to be involved in the murder of 14-year-old Jayden Moodie has been found by police in London.

The teenager was struck by a car while on his moped, and then stabbed to death in what police believe was a targeted attack.

He was found wounded in Bickley Road, Waltham Forest, on Tuesday evening.

Can you legally ride a moped at 14 now ?

Nope not that I know of

Gang related then.

14 years old!

Cant ride a moped legally at 14.

I'll put one angle out there, kids are paid by drugs gangs to act as mules to keep the supply chain moving. It's not normal pattern of things to have a bike collide with a car (regardless of fault) and have 3 occupants alight from the vehicle to take on a child. It's one thing to knock someone off a moped and drive on (it's absolutely not the right thing to do), but to do so and then attack them, implies a pre-meditated aspect to this one, I'll wager drugs / drugs gang related.

London is a dump, bound to be drugs related.

Agreed on both points

The usual quotes so far.

"Smart kid with a future"
"He was gonna start at the boxing club"
"Clever boy with a future"

But not if you are drug mule on a moped that is illegal to ride, running drugs (likely) across County Lines then I expect no less.
I despair at the tragedy but he was certainly playing with the bigger boys and paid the price.

Mentioned by a friend on Farcebook yesterday, my reply was:

Some reports say 'a' moped and some say 'his' moped. If ‘his’, why and how? On the flip side, we all do daft things, so if he just happened to be taking a moped for a spin at 14, hit someone’s car, he hardly deserved to be stabbed to death. Trying not to jump to conclusions, although that’s difficult with all the moped associated crime in the news at the moment. Unfortunately, I'd lean towards him playing with the big boys, and it's gone wrong.

Moped was stolen
Detectives investigating the murder of a 14-year-old boy in east London launched a fresh appeal for witnesses today as they revealed he was riding a stolen moped at the time of the attack.

Jaden Moodie was rammed off the moped by a Mercedes car before being stabbed in the back repeatedly and left to die in the street in Leyton.

Moped stolen, recently excluded from school, pictured on FB with gang gestures, draw your own conclusions.

No, not at all, they've been let down by the police, the local authorities, the schools, the teachers, the local swimming pool, the bin men, the government, even blame the EU, but clearly it's not the parents fault. He was a good lad because they said so. As it now seems to be clearly gang related and drug running, the inevitable conclusion to this is that another kid from the other 'side' is going to meet a similar grim fate now....and so it goes on.

The family were on the TV saying how much of a good boy he was and he would never get involved with gangs!:wonder:

Well, his uncle was there, but not his Dad.

This.

He wanted to be known as a bad boy and at 14 in gang controlled London you aren't going to live very long. Treading on the toes of those much higher up the criminal chain was in this case a real school boy error. His age was of no concern to those he angered. Sadly he won't be the last with the gangs recruiting younger and younger members and getting them to prove themselves.