Teenager who rammed two cyclists then stamped on driver’s head as a result of he thought he was from rival gang is jailed for seven years

A teenager who rammed two cyclists off the road and then stamped on a driver’s head because he mistakenly thought they were members of a rival gang has been jailed for seven years and two months.

Ishaaq Hurayrah, 19, used his white Toyota Corolla as a weapon when he attacked Nurridin Jama and Adam Gogarty as they rode their bikes along Morpeth Street in Bethnal Green.

Leon Callander thought Hurayrah had killed Mr Jama and drove after him in his Mercedes.

When he got out of his car to confront Hurayrah, the thug reversed into him and then stamped on his head, Inner London Crown Court heard.

Mr Gogarty said in a victim impact statement read to the court by prosecutor Claire Langevad: ‘Since the incident my mental health has been set back a year and a half. I don’t leave the house. I don’t want to speak to anyone.

‘I hope that the defendant realises the impact that his actions have had on me. I have been struggling in my daily life ever since. I cannot understand why he did what he did on 14 June 2025.’

Referring to Mr Callander’s statement the prosecutor said: ‘He describes a huge physical impact overall, including being wheelchair bound for some time.

‘He has had multiple medical appointments and surgery. He summarises that this has changed my life completely.’

Footage from the scene of the incident shows a pedestrian being launched into the air as a white car hits him while reversing. 

Moments after the pedestrian was knocked to the ground, the car drives back towards him. 

 A woman can be heard screaming, as she tells onlookers to ‘call the police,’ before the driver then walks towards the victim and stamps on him. 

Sentencing Hurayrah, Judge Vanessa Baraitser said: ‘At 9pm on 14 June last year you were driving a white Toyota Corolla. Three others were in the vehicle with you. The first person you struck was Mr Jama.

‘Mr Jama was on his way home from visiting his cousin when you struck him. He remembers nothing of the impact.

‘After that Mr Jama lay motionless and unconscious for over a minute.’

‘Such was the force that the Toyota logo became detached and was left at the scene.’

Mr Jama was left with a fractured jaw, fractured ribs and vertebrae as well as a cut to his shin.

Judge Baraitser continued: ‘Mr Gogarty was also cycling, and was on his way to see a friend. After witnessing the collision [with Mr Jama], he saw you driving towards him.

‘You hit his bike, causing him to spin 180 degrees, causing his head to hit the ground.’

Mr Callander, who was in a Silver Mercedes with his partner, thought that Hurayrah had killed Mr Gogarty and drove after him, yelling: ‘You killed him!’

He got out of his car only for the teenager to reverse into him.

The judge continued: ‘As he tried to get back to his feet you accelerated forwards, and drove directly at and into him.

‘This caused him to fly in the air, causing him to flip over. He lies perfectly still.

‘You walk over to where Mr Houlder is lying and stamp on his head.’

Following his arrest Hurayrah claimed he thought that Mr Jama and Mr Gogarty were from a rival gang after he was stabbed in 2023.

Judge Baraitser told him: ‘I accept, as your barrister put it, that you have not had the easiest of upbringings’, said the judge.

But she said Hurayrah used his car as a ‘highly dangerous weapon.

‘This was an unprovoked and senseless act of aggression towards a complete stranger.

‘This amounted to a spree during which you used your car and drove into three vulnerable road users during three separate incidents in a short period of time.

‘You were affiliated with a gang in the area where you grew up. You say you drove into [the victims] on the assumption that they were gang members based on what they were wearing.’

As he was sentenced to a total of 86 months in a young offenders’ institute and disqualified from driving for seven years Hurayrah yawned in the dock.

‘Yawning is not something that sits well with what happened,’ the judge added.

Hurayrah, of Wager Street, Mile End, East London, admitted two counts of causing grievous bodily harm and one of causing actual bodily harm.