A schoolboy was killed as he cycled to the shops to collect a cake for his 16th birthday party, his heartbroken family revealed Tuesday.
Nahid Islam, 15, was cycling close to a zebra crossing near his home in Belsize Park, north London, last Saturday afternoon when he was hit by an oncoming motorcycle. Paramedics battled to save him at the roadside but the Regent High School pupil was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple injuries at 2.40pm.
Devastated family members told the Standard the “loveable” teenager had been rushing to meet his mother to help bring home the cake for a party the following afternoon. Dozens of friends and relatives gathered last night for a vigil at the junction on Malden Road and Queen’s Crescent, half a mile from the family’s home, which has been covered in a sea of floral tributes, candles and birthday balloons.
Nahid’s father, Mohammed Fokrul Islam, 50, said he “would never forget” his cricket-loving son and proudly spoke of how the teenager had already memorised the Koran. Relatives said Nahid’s mother, Sultana Begum, was in a state of shock after following a crowd of people to the junction to see her youngest son lying in the middle of the road.
Nahid was studying for his GCSEs at Regent High School in Camden.
The motorcyclist stopped at the scene and was not injured in the crash. There have been no arrests.
