Jaden Moodie was 14 when he was knocked off his moped and stabbed to death in east London, in January 2019. Ayoub Majbouline was convicted of Jaden’s murder in December 2019.
The review, written by John Drew, the former chief executive of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, outlines how three months before his death, Jaden was found with an older boy in a county lines flat in Bournemouth with class A drugs, a mobile phone and £325 in cash.
After being interviewed by Dorset Police, Jaden, referred to in the report as ‘Child C’, was driven by officers back to London, where he was staying with his grandmother while his mother’s housing application was being processed, but did not involve specialist child exploitation workers.
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