Killed when he denied being a gang member

A schoolboy who was stabbed to death by a gang told his mother one of the killers tried to ‘finish him off’ three months earlier, a court heard. Tashaun Aird, 15, was socialising with friends in Somerford Grove, Hackney, on 1 May, when four teenagers, all members of a local youth club – ambushed him and his friends. He was stabbed at least eight times and suffered a fatal wound wound to his lung in the frenzied attack, the Old…