0:00:03 > 0:00:08We are the generation that film everything.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11Even our crimes.
0:00:15 > 0:00:20On phones and on CCTV, they are uploaded and shared online.
0:00:23 > 0:00:28The crimes in this film were all vicious robberies committed by teenagers.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32They just targeted whoever they felt they could go for.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34It was literally jump and take.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38They used force to steal from their victims.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42As a 20-year-old, it upsets me
0:00:42 > 0:00:45to think that it's happening in my generation.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50The results were psychological trauma, physical injury and murder.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55No, I won't forgive them. They don't deserve it.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56Brrr-rap!
0:01:00 > 0:01:07This programme contains some strong language and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Get off it. Get off it. Not yet.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37G-Block was a violent teenage gang.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40They attacked lone women in Tooting, South London,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43boasting openly about their crimes on MSN.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49It was Halloween and about 8.30 at night.
0:02:49 > 0:02:53Very dark, cold and I was coming back from the gym
0:02:53 > 0:02:58and I was listening to Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 on my iPod.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01It was quite calm, relaxing Latin music.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16I was walking down Clydesdale Road
0:03:16 > 0:03:21and I saw four guys in the distance and three guys on the other side
0:03:21 > 0:03:26of the road and I noticed they were wearing masks from the film Scream.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40As I got closer to them,
0:03:40 > 0:03:46they pushed me into a brick wall on the side of the road
0:03:46 > 0:03:54and I was in disbelief that they were mugging me, they were attacking me.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01I had my handbag on my shoulder and they were trying to take it off me.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05I remember thinking, "I'm not going to let you have this,
0:04:05 > 0:04:08"because this should not be the kind of thing you are doing
0:04:08 > 0:04:14"and I don't want to make it easy to just take somebody's belongings.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16"I am going to fight with you."
0:04:16 > 0:04:19We were struggling and turning round in circles
0:04:19 > 0:04:25and banging against the wall and they were all pushing against me.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28All they wanted to do was boast about who had caused what injury
0:04:28 > 0:04:32and that led them to escalate the violence, which progressively
0:04:32 > 0:04:34got worse and worse and worse.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58I had four of these guys on top of me
0:04:58 > 0:05:01and the three guys from over the road saw there was a struggle
0:05:01 > 0:05:08and came over and I thought, "They might hurt me if I don't let go."
0:05:08 > 0:05:15So I decided to let go of the bag, but as I let go of the bag,
0:05:15 > 0:05:18I thought, "I'm going to take something that belongs to you."
0:05:18 > 0:05:22So I reached out and grabbed the Scream mask off one of their heads,
0:05:22 > 0:05:25and they scattered.
0:05:25 > 0:05:30They just targeted whoever they felt they could go for.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33It wasn't necessarily gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36It was literally jump and take.
0:05:38 > 0:05:43One of the people they mugged, she lost her baby
0:05:43 > 0:05:46while she was pregnant at the time. She has lost her baby.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Hearing that someone has lost their baby, you know it's serious.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53In the MSN exchanges,
0:05:53 > 0:05:57the gang bragged about violent attacks on countless other victims.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21They didn't care. They just wanted to prove themselves to each other.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25The victim was someone to be used for that purpose.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28That's why you had women who offered no resistance,
0:06:28 > 0:06:32women who could offer no resistance.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34They were so violently attacked, beaten to the floor, kicked,
0:06:34 > 0:06:36punched, stamped on.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41What we were expecting to find was older youths with a history of street robbery
0:06:41 > 0:06:45and that wasn't the case.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48When we put our known robbers under the microscope,
0:06:48 > 0:06:52to ascertain the likely suspects, we found it wasn't any of them.
0:06:52 > 0:06:58Months of police surveillance finally paid off.
0:06:58 > 0:07:03We were able to identify Gearing Close as the main meeting point
0:07:03 > 0:07:07of this group and they called themselves G-Block.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09G-Block wasn't a well established criminal gang,
0:07:09 > 0:07:13but a group of apparently ordinary teenagers living on a quiet
0:07:13 > 0:07:16close just off Tooting Common.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20These were boys that would help people with their shopping
0:07:20 > 0:07:23and carry it into their houses.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26They played together as a football team and did lots of things
0:07:26 > 0:07:31which any normal young boy of that age you would expect to do.
0:07:32 > 0:07:39This is Gearing Close. This is where...everything used to happen.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Growing up in Gearing Close,
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Dani was good friends with the G-Block boys.
0:07:45 > 0:07:51Even though we would be noisy at night playing football or just chilling,
0:07:51 > 0:07:56we would always help out with people's shopping and pick up the litter.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00I don't think anybody's perception was really that negative.
0:08:00 > 0:08:06They were able to give the appearance of being normal, everyday schoolboys,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09but the reality is they had a darker secret,
0:08:09 > 0:08:11a darker side, which was this gang membership.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17There were eight boys in the gang, four of whom lived on the close.
0:08:17 > 0:08:23Jordan Rattray, Rubel Ahmed, Abdi Nur and Cyrus Pinnock.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27These youths went out nearly every night during this period
0:08:27 > 0:08:30committing violent acts of street robbery.
0:08:30 > 0:08:35They were armed with knives, iron bars, with mallets,
0:08:35 > 0:08:36all of which they used.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16While G-Block operated from a quiet South London suburb, another gang
0:09:16 > 0:09:20from Kensal Green brought terror to the whole of the London Underground.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24"On Friday, the 23rd of December, on the Hammersmith & City Line train,
0:09:24 > 0:09:28"the whole group gathered around the victim and one male said, 'Wallet.'
0:09:28 > 0:09:29"Then another male produced a knife
0:09:29 > 0:09:32"and plunged it into the victim's upper left thigh."
0:09:36 > 0:09:39"23rd of December, a group of youths entered a carriage
0:09:39 > 0:09:42"then approached the victim.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46"One of the groups said to the victim, 'Give me your fucking phone.'
0:09:46 > 0:09:48"The male then said, 'Give me your fucking wallet.'"
0:09:50 > 0:09:53"Four males began hitting him as they searched his pockets.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56"He saw one of the youths produce a knife,
0:09:56 > 0:09:59"which he plunged into the victim's left thigh."
0:10:03 > 0:10:08If you put up a fight, you get stabbed and you get beaten.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13The levels of violence are so disproportionate to what
0:10:13 > 0:10:17they want to achieve, which is a wallet and a phone off of people.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19It is scary.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23We talk about pack mentality, but the levels of violence don't seem right.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26I've never seen anything like it.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31CCTV helped the police identify a gang of teenage boys.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34They called themselves the KG Tribe.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39The police didn't know anything of the KG Tribe
0:10:39 > 0:10:43until these numerous robberies on the underground.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45They lived in the Kensal Green area,
0:10:45 > 0:10:47so that's what the KG Tribe stood for.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57One of the gang, 18-year-old Donnel Carty,
0:10:57 > 0:11:00was a regular at a youth club close to Kensal Green Tube.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04Donnel was typical of the young people that we see.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08He's black.
0:11:08 > 0:11:13He...wasn't doing the best in school.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17In fact, a lot of time, he wasn't at school.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21I don't think he finished formal schooling.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25What we found over the years is that many of the boys who get into trouble
0:11:25 > 0:11:33either don't have a relationship with a responsible father,
0:11:33 > 0:11:40or their fathers are not in their life at all.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42There was a real change in Donnel.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46Things started to become a little more out of control
0:11:46 > 0:11:52after he stopped living with his father full-time.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56Donnel, with his best friend Delano Brown,
0:11:56 > 0:11:58became a principal member of the KG Tribe.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03What I am about to play is a track recorded by Donnel Carty
0:12:03 > 0:12:06and others from the KG Tribe.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09# I said high-grade bush I'm in the ends
0:12:09 > 0:12:11# Hide and shush
0:12:11 > 0:12:14# Burning sea just like toast... #
0:12:14 > 0:12:16This is Donnel Carty singing now.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28"I want your phone. Make it snappy."
0:12:36 > 0:12:38They talk about murders,
0:12:38 > 0:12:45robbing people and talk about taking phones off people
0:12:45 > 0:12:48which, sadly, is exactly what they did.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57On Thursday, January the 12th 2006, Delano Brown
0:12:57 > 0:13:02and Donnel Carty were caught on the cameras at Kensal Green Tube.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08This footage shows Donnel Carty at the front with the woolly hat
0:13:08 > 0:13:11and Delano Brown behind him entering the station.
0:13:12 > 0:13:17You've got Donnel Carty here and Delano Brown here.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20As they are about to board the train, Delano Brown pulling his hood up
0:13:20 > 0:13:23before he gets onto the train.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Just after 11pm that night, Brown and Carty rob a man on the platform.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31They threatened him.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34They didn't say directly but he believed them to have a knife.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37They stole money and a mobile telephone off him.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44It's just coming up to 23.05. Donnel Carty to the front, Delano Brown to the back.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46They have their hoods up and are crouching down.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48This is a station they know well
0:13:48 > 0:13:50and they know where the camera positions are.
0:13:52 > 0:13:53They turn to the right.
0:13:53 > 0:13:58It is the same way that Tom ap Rhys walks some 20 minutes after that.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02Tom ap Rhys Pryce was a successful 31-year-old lawyer.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06He had recently become engaged to his fiancee Adele Eastman
0:14:06 > 0:14:09and they lived together in Kensal Green.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12He was a very unique character
0:14:12 > 0:14:17and one of his key characteristics
0:14:17 > 0:14:21was he was always amazingly optimistic about everything.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24He always was interested in everything.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27One of his prep school headmasters said that he was
0:14:27 > 0:14:29a nice person to have around.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31I remember him saying that.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34I think that was exactly what Tom was.
0:14:34 > 0:14:35He was a nice person to have around.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40This footage shows Tom ap Rhys Pryce leaving the station.
0:14:40 > 0:14:41You see him turning right,
0:14:41 > 0:14:45heading the same way that Donnel Carty and Delano Brown went.
0:14:45 > 0:14:50This is the last footage of Tom ap Rhys Pryce alive.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52You can see the paperwork under his arm,
0:14:52 > 0:14:55which was paperwork for his wedding.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59There he appears there again.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02He appears there and there and that's it.
0:15:07 > 0:15:12The doorbell was ringing at about four o'clock in the morning.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14It went on and on.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Eventually, I must have woken up and gone downstairs
0:15:17 > 0:15:23and it was his brother, Michael, at the door in floods of tears
0:15:23 > 0:15:27saying, "Tom has been killed."
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Initially, you are just so shocked and stunned,
0:15:32 > 0:15:36it was hard to take in what he was saying.
0:15:36 > 0:15:41We all sat down and he told us briefly,
0:15:41 > 0:15:47because he didn't have much information on what had happened.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53In a violent knife attack, Tom was repeatedly stabbed and beaten.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57Delano Brown and Donnel Carty robbed him of his cash,
0:15:57 > 0:16:00his mobile phone and an Oyster card.
0:16:00 > 0:16:07Tom was a well-travelled lad. He wasn't an innocent in London.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09He knew how to diffuse situations.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13I think he was coming across something that perhaps he had never
0:16:13 > 0:16:17come across in his life before.
0:16:17 > 0:16:18These two teenagers,
0:16:18 > 0:16:23I think he would not have expected the level of violence.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27It is just something he would not have had any understanding of at all.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29I don't think we did either.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32As we understand it, he gave them everything he had,
0:16:32 > 0:16:35but, for whatever reason...
0:16:35 > 0:16:38It was not enough.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46There was one fatal stab wound that penetrated his heart.
0:16:46 > 0:16:51Once he had been stabbed, even if there was a surgeon there,
0:16:51 > 0:16:55it was something he couldn't recover from.
0:16:55 > 0:17:01The police liaison officer was very helpful.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04He did give us advice not to watch the news for a while
0:17:04 > 0:17:06and it was very good advice.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Although I have to say I did see footage on the news,
0:17:12 > 0:17:16I saw it was on the BBC News. I did see it.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19I just thought, "I can't believe he's not still here."
0:17:19 > 0:17:23It's very incomprehensible.
0:17:23 > 0:17:31- Incomprehensible is the word. - Gone, just like that.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34There he was, then he wasn't.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Just so sudden.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21In April 2011, a group of armed teenagers from Liverpool
0:18:21 > 0:18:22went on a ten-day rampage
0:18:22 > 0:18:25with little thought that their crimes too
0:18:25 > 0:18:27would be caught on CCTV.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30The incidents took place over a ten-day period and some nights,
0:18:30 > 0:18:35they did a couple of jobs one after the other.
0:18:35 > 0:18:36There was an attack on a pub,
0:18:36 > 0:18:39there was an attack on a couple of taxi drivers.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43Then there was the pizza delivery guy. There was a couple of shops.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46It was, I would say, a fast-moving enquiry.
0:18:48 > 0:18:53For me, one of the overriding images in investigating
0:18:53 > 0:18:56these offences is the image of Jobe Kilbride.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59What is that?! That to me is just...
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Urgh. That makes me feel sick.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09That is a very shocking image.
0:19:20 > 0:19:25These offences started over the Royal Wedding weekend. There were street parties in Liverpool.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29Everybody was watching or celebrating the Royal Wedding.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Because of the extra day off for the Royal Wedding,
0:19:32 > 0:19:34I was going to be able to go to Wales and have a long weekend.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Chris was going to have a working weekend.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Ha! That didn't happen.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44Liverpool City Council's CCTV captured the moment.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46We are coming into Norris Green now.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50Not one of my favourite areas at the moment, obviously.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Chris worked hard over Bank Holiday weekends
0:19:52 > 0:19:56because that's when it's busiest and when people need taxis, you know?
0:19:56 > 0:20:01I haven't had a Bank Holiday off for ten years, 12 years.
0:20:03 > 0:20:08The minimum I wanted to make that night was £150. Minimum.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10That was the plan.
0:20:10 > 0:20:15The plan was working up to 12:55am on the Saturday morning...
0:20:15 > 0:20:20when the plan got...shot basically.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25This group of lads borrowed a mobile phone off somebody to say,
0:20:25 > 0:20:28"Can you do us a favour? Can you ring us a taxi?"
0:20:28 > 0:20:31So the taxi gets rang,
0:20:31 > 0:20:34they stand in a location, knowing what they're about to do.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Chris Harkness didn't.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39- Is that them?- Yeah, that's them.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41There's only three of them.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44I'm parked here, out of view.
0:20:44 > 0:20:50The last thing he expects to happen is for a group of males to come up
0:20:50 > 0:20:53and put a shotgun in his face.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55The passenger door was ripped open.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57There was someone shouting at me,
0:20:57 > 0:21:01"Turn the engine off. Where's the money? Don't do anything or we'll shoot you."
0:21:02 > 0:21:06All that went through my mind was, "Why's there a shotgun on my chest?"
0:21:06 > 0:21:10It was only when the one in the front shouted something
0:21:10 > 0:21:14and they started to move that I caught sight of the police car
0:21:14 > 0:21:18at the roundabout and it just kept going. "You're not stopping?"
0:21:18 > 0:21:21It's like in the films. "Why aren't you stopping?"
0:21:23 > 0:21:26They started to move away cos they'd obviously seen the police car.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29That's when I thought, "I'm not hanging around anymore."
0:21:29 > 0:21:31I got out and I ran away.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35All that's going through my head was
0:21:35 > 0:21:38get some distance between myself and the gun.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41He ran out of his taxi, threw away his keys.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44You can only imagine what was going through his mind at the time.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Maybe I should've stood up to them,
0:21:46 > 0:21:50maybe if I had stood up to them, they may have backed down.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53If that gun had been used on Chris being so close,
0:21:53 > 0:21:56I don't know if he'd have been here now.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58That makes me really angry...
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Yeah. Sorry.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03It does, it makes me really angry.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09The moment after the first robbery,
0:22:09 > 0:22:12we put all our efforts to get these people caught.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Witness statements to get, house-to-house enquiries, CCTV enquiries
0:22:16 > 0:22:20and very quickly, we got the help and information that we needed.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22We had a name.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26The 18-year-old, he's got a criminal record, Bradley Beveridge.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32When Chris Harkness's taxi was robbed, they took his mobile phone.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36A few hours later, they used his mobile phone to ring another taxi.
0:22:36 > 0:22:41They were then daft enough to use that mobile phone and direct them to,
0:22:41 > 0:22:44what turned out to be, Bradley Beveridge's girlfriend's house.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12OK, so tell me, why don't you want us to see your face?
0:23:19 > 0:23:22OK, tell us a little bit about you and Bradley then.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00I've got friends who brought up their child in Norris Green.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03Their child wasn't out on the streets at 1am,
0:24:03 > 0:24:07I know that for a fact. So it's not everyone from Norris Green.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10So where's the excuse, "I was brought up in Norris Green"?
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Make another one because that one isn't going to wash.
0:24:13 > 0:24:20The offences gradually got a little bit more severe.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Beveridge and his little group got a little bit more confident
0:24:23 > 0:24:26and cocky with the fact that up until that point,
0:24:26 > 0:24:29they'd been going for ten days, they hadn't been caught.
0:24:29 > 0:24:35Police were unaware that the other members of Beveridge's gang
0:24:35 > 0:24:37were schoolboys of just 16 and under.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11G-Block was the name used by a violent gang
0:25:11 > 0:25:14responsible for over 170 muggings.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18They came from the quiet residential estate of Gearing Close,
0:25:18 > 0:25:22just off the Common in Tooting, south London.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25We grew up in Tooting, me and my friends.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27We all went our separate ways at university,
0:25:27 > 0:25:30but eventually we all come back from university
0:25:30 > 0:25:34and a good way for us to stay together was football.
0:25:34 > 0:25:39It was a common ground and we used to play on Tooting Common, every Saturday.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46Included in that were a bunch of lads who must have been 14, 15,
0:25:46 > 0:25:49maybe even 16, who started to become regulars down there,
0:25:49 > 0:25:52and there was also a lad called Dani who turned up,
0:25:52 > 0:25:55but he was every other week and not so much,
0:25:55 > 0:25:57but we knew Dani and he was a very good player.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59He was probably the best of the bunch.
0:25:59 > 0:26:03He always used to get told off for playing football against the wall,
0:26:03 > 0:26:06he used to get shouted at because it's not our property,
0:26:06 > 0:26:08cos people are touchy like that within the area.
0:26:08 > 0:26:13So then we went over by the Common on Saturdays and there was a few guys there.
0:26:13 > 0:26:18I guess, as most people do, we judged them on first impressions,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21and decided that, you know, let's give them a game,
0:26:21 > 0:26:25and maybe it was because it would help us get the numbers right in the game.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Eventually they'd play with us,
0:26:27 > 0:26:30and we took them under our wing and we used to see them every week.
0:26:30 > 0:26:31They were nice lads.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33If you met them in the street,
0:26:33 > 0:26:38you wouldn't feel intimidated by them one little bit in broad daylight,
0:26:38 > 0:26:41cos they'd probably be helping their mums with the shopping.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43They were almost geekish in many ways.
0:26:43 > 0:26:49To me they seemed like an older version of us, but just more white.
0:26:49 > 0:26:54They were definitely, you know, a younger version of we what we were probably then.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYS
0:27:02 > 0:27:04HE LAUGHS
0:27:04 > 0:27:08At the time, there was, like, these different dances
0:27:08 > 0:27:10that used to come out
0:27:10 > 0:27:13and something all the boys and I used to do is that
0:27:13 > 0:27:17we used to, like, proper learn them and then actually put them up,
0:27:17 > 0:27:22and it only goes to show, like, this is, like, what we used to do.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23This is us.
0:27:23 > 0:27:28This is the real Gearing Close boys, this is the real G-Block.
0:27:31 > 0:27:37Abdi's wearing his Valencia T-shirt that he wore to football most weeks.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40Cyrus is wearing some interesting bright red trousers.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45It's quite amusing to see them in that scenario.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Some of their moves are great.
0:27:47 > 0:27:52They're happy and smiling, and they're just being normal teenagers.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56Looking at Abdi there, he's got a big old smile on his face,
0:27:56 > 0:28:00and, you know, he's in his element, and picturing this,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03you wouldn't imagine that they could intimidate a cat.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07Very innocent, normal young boys, you would say,
0:28:07 > 0:28:10but this footage was filmed during their robbery spree.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14The one question you've got to ask yourself is
0:28:14 > 0:28:16how do these innocent young boys in this image here
0:28:16 > 0:28:18get to the violent thug there
0:28:18 > 0:28:21with his carving knife, hammer and his ski mask?
0:28:21 > 0:28:23That is Cyrus Pinnock with the red trousers on,
0:28:23 > 0:28:26and that is Cyrus Pinnock in that photograph.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32In February 2008, all the G-Block boys including Dani were arrested
0:28:32 > 0:28:35and taken in for questioning.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40I didn't get involved in any of the robberies, any of the muggings,
0:28:40 > 0:28:43any of the beating up people, any of the taking stuff,
0:28:43 > 0:28:45whatever they were doing,
0:28:45 > 0:28:48because something in me was telling me it's wrong.
0:28:48 > 0:28:52Like, it's not right to do that, and with me,
0:28:52 > 0:28:55especially maybe it was because I was in a relationship
0:28:55 > 0:28:57with a girl that I liked,
0:28:57 > 0:29:00or maybe because I was focusing on school
0:29:00 > 0:29:03and trying to get my GCSEs and actually go to college.
0:29:03 > 0:29:04RAPPING
0:29:07 > 0:29:10Having never been involved in any of the muggings,
0:29:10 > 0:29:14Dani was not charged with any crime and released.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17What did you hear was going on?
0:29:17 > 0:29:23I knew that, or I heard that, they were going out and doing stuff.
0:29:23 > 0:29:27I knew that they would come back with things
0:29:27 > 0:29:29that they never really had before.
0:29:29 > 0:29:34And to me it's like, I stayed away from it
0:29:34 > 0:29:37and that topic around them
0:29:37 > 0:29:40because, like, to me, like, it wasn't right.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48We found video footage that we seized off their phones of them
0:29:48 > 0:29:52immediately after they robbed a pizza delivery driver,
0:29:52 > 0:29:54held a carving knife to his throat.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57They've then robbed him of the bike he was actually riding,
0:29:57 > 0:30:01and they steal that and later, shortly after that offence,
0:30:01 > 0:30:0322 minutes after, I believe,
0:30:03 > 0:30:07they then film themselves on a mobile phone trying to start the bike up.
0:30:15 > 0:30:16ENGINE REVS
0:30:22 > 0:30:24ENGINE REVS
0:30:50 > 0:30:53Yes, you can look at that in one aspect and think,
0:30:53 > 0:30:55well, it's quite comical.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58A group of youths who can't even start a motorbike they've just stolen.
0:31:03 > 0:31:08But it also shows almost a blase, naive, stupid attitude
0:31:08 > 0:31:11to their offences
0:31:11 > 0:31:14and not a thought that they were ever going to get caught.
0:31:16 > 0:31:20The police seized the gang's phones and computers.
0:31:20 > 0:31:25They discovered that they'd uploaded numerous photos of themselves brandishing weapons
0:31:25 > 0:31:29and they'd boasted about their crimes on MSN, MySpace and Bebo.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36It was almost manna from heaven as an investigator
0:31:36 > 0:31:40to actually look at these crimes you're trying to prove.
0:31:40 > 0:31:45You're interviewing the suspect who is saying, "No reply, no comment, no reply, no comment."
0:31:45 > 0:31:50The reality is, you don't need him to say anything
0:31:50 > 0:31:56because you've got, in the MSN, his conversation of what he did
0:31:56 > 0:32:01and the part he played in a street robbery 40 minutes, 30 minutes,
0:32:01 > 0:32:0320 minutes after committing the offence.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13On 20th October 2007, another victim, Hannah Murray,
0:32:13 > 0:32:17was attacked in the street and property was taken from her.
0:32:17 > 0:32:1920th of October 2007,
0:32:19 > 0:32:22Cyrus - "Oi, guess what?
0:32:22 > 0:32:27"Me and Ameel and Abdi and Jordan went sucking and Ameel got an iPod."
0:32:28 > 0:32:31Akheem - "What?"
0:32:31 > 0:32:35Cyrus - "And I got two phones and a camera."
0:32:35 > 0:32:38When we searched Cyrus Pinnock's home address,
0:32:38 > 0:32:40one of the items recovered was a digital camera,
0:32:40 > 0:32:43which we suspected may have been Hannah Murray's.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46She came to the police station, identified the property as hers,
0:32:46 > 0:32:48examined the digital camera,
0:32:48 > 0:32:51saw images of black youths that she didn't recognise.
0:32:51 > 0:32:54At the time she did this, she was with her boyfriend.
0:32:56 > 0:33:00I remember sitting there and being absolutely gobsmacked.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02Your heart drops.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05There must have been seven or eight photos
0:33:05 > 0:33:09of lads that I knew very well from the Common, and it was the kids.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13They were striking poses in an aggressive nature
0:33:13 > 0:33:17and had knives in their hand and it was all very gangster-esque
0:33:17 > 0:33:20and it didn't register with me
0:33:20 > 0:33:22that that was something they were capable of.
0:33:22 > 0:33:27It certainly was, you know, like a stab in the back.
0:33:27 > 0:33:28I know it sounds silly
0:33:28 > 0:33:33but they didn't know that they were mugging my girlfriend - they didn't know that.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36That's not to sympathise with them but that's to say that, you know,
0:33:36 > 0:33:40I guess they weren't intentionally trying to stab me in the back personally.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43The biggest wrench comes from the fact that
0:33:43 > 0:33:46they did play football with us after Hannah's mugging,
0:33:46 > 0:33:49and they would've turned that camera on because they used it,
0:33:49 > 0:33:53and they would've certainly seen photos of me and my friends as well
0:33:53 > 0:33:56and still turned up the next week and shook our hands.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59We knew no better at the time and they did.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02So that certainly seemed like a real betrayal, definitely.
0:34:05 > 0:34:09I wanted to see them and to say, "What the hell? What happened?"
0:34:09 > 0:34:11And, "Look what you've done."
0:34:11 > 0:34:14I think we saw Dani maybe a couple of times afterwards,
0:34:14 > 0:34:16I think it was Dani,
0:34:16 > 0:34:21and asked him where the kids were and where's Jordan, Abdi and Cyrus.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24I think he fobbed it off with a bit of a smile on his face.
0:34:24 > 0:34:27I think he knew that I knew and vice versa.
0:34:27 > 0:34:29But we never saw them after that.
0:34:32 > 0:34:36You said that it's not your responsibility to stop those crimes.
0:34:36 > 0:34:39Whose responsibility was it?
0:34:40 > 0:34:42Themselves. The boys.
0:34:42 > 0:34:47It's their responsibility because if they know that they're doing wrong,
0:34:47 > 0:34:50then they should've stopped it.
0:34:52 > 0:34:56Even though I was their friend and I knew them,
0:34:56 > 0:35:00it wasn't my... It could... It is my responsibility to stop them
0:35:00 > 0:35:03because they're people I associate myself with
0:35:03 > 0:35:06and it did make me look bad because I hanged around with them,
0:35:06 > 0:35:10but it's not my responsibility because it was none of my business.
0:35:13 > 0:35:16To me, I was not involved.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24We picked up the pieces.
0:35:24 > 0:35:28It took Hannah a long time to really get her confidence back again
0:35:28 > 0:35:32and feel comfortable walking the streets in the dark and all the rest of it.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35Yeah, it was a nightmare, and very traumatic.
0:35:37 > 0:35:41It would be interesting to actually meet one of the victims.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43No word of a lie.
0:35:43 > 0:35:47Because I want to know... how they feel.
0:35:47 > 0:35:52Maybe it might make me be, like, might make me actually sink in,
0:35:52 > 0:35:57and be like "Oh, shit. What they did do was really, really bad."
0:35:59 > 0:36:02All eight gang members were convicted.
0:36:02 > 0:36:06Judge Price at Kingston Crown Court, quite rightly in my eyes,
0:36:06 > 0:36:08took the view, these are so serious,
0:36:08 > 0:36:13this is such a long period of offending, that the only option was,
0:36:13 > 0:36:16as much as he didn't want to lock up youths, was to protect the public.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19The only way to do that was to give them lengthy custodial sentences,
0:36:19 > 0:36:21which is what occurred.
0:36:30 > 0:36:34Friday, 29th April 2011, the day of the Royal Wedding,
0:36:34 > 0:36:38was the day a gang of boys from Norris Green in Liverpool
0:36:38 > 0:36:41began a ten-day armed robbery spree.
0:36:41 > 0:36:44I think it may start off as boredom, or let's do this for a laugh.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46Let's get some money. We haven't got any cash.
0:36:46 > 0:36:49I'll tell you what we'll do, we could do a robbery.
0:36:51 > 0:36:55They robbed taxi drivers, pubs and delivery vehicles.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57Their next targets were small local shops.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29What we can see is, we've got all our suspects
0:37:29 > 0:37:32currently stood in the bus stop outside of the shop.
0:37:36 > 0:37:41Culshaw's constantly in and out, you can see on the CCTV, in and out of the shop.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43He's casing the joint. He's coming in, having a look.
0:37:43 > 0:37:45Is there anybody in the shop?
0:37:45 > 0:37:48They wait for the moment when there's no customers.
0:37:51 > 0:37:57I moved up to Liverpool around a year ago with my husband, Raj.
0:37:57 > 0:38:02Because he runs a business here, a convenience store.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05Raj chose Liverpool I guess
0:38:05 > 0:38:09because it's easier to find a job than London,
0:38:09 > 0:38:14but, yeah, I like the area, I like the people here.
0:38:16 > 0:38:19When this happened in our shop, it was a Tuesday.
0:38:21 > 0:38:23I was at the shop in the morning.
0:38:23 > 0:38:27We were extending our shop,
0:38:27 > 0:38:30and Mani was helping with that.
0:38:30 > 0:38:33My main work is a shop assistant,
0:38:33 > 0:38:38but I do building works, tiling, shelving, on part-time also.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41Everyone was tired. They wanted a break,
0:38:41 > 0:38:44so we thought, you know, we'll have a barbecue as it was a nice day.
0:38:44 > 0:38:49So my husband and Mani, they went out,
0:38:49 > 0:38:52they bought some stuff for the barbecue
0:38:52 > 0:38:55and the staff, Sam, and the other guy, Ravi,
0:38:55 > 0:38:57stayed at work in the shop.
0:39:00 > 0:39:01That's...
0:39:01 > 0:39:03I think Sam.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06They're just getting ready to close the shop. So...
0:39:09 > 0:39:11Just moving everything away.
0:39:15 > 0:39:18OK, this is when the boys are entering the shop.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33The boys come in.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35One of them's holding the gun.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40Bradley Beveridge, clearly with a shotgun in his hand,
0:39:40 > 0:39:41his face covered,
0:39:41 > 0:39:45and in come the other two as well, Currie and Kilbride.
0:39:45 > 0:39:49Immediately start threatening the shopkeeper.
0:39:49 > 0:39:51We see Culshaw in the blue top,
0:39:51 > 0:39:54literally just pulls his jumper over his head.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56Not a sophisticated criminal.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59Didn't even try to conceal his identity very well.
0:39:59 > 0:40:04With Priya, her husband and Mani having a barbecue,
0:40:04 > 0:40:08the only staff covering the shop were part-time assistants, Sam and Ravi.
0:40:10 > 0:40:16This is Ravi. First he thinks they're joking with the gun.
0:40:16 > 0:40:21Then he realises it's a real gun so he gets behind the counter.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25The staff will be feeling really helpless
0:40:25 > 0:40:29because they don't know what to do,
0:40:29 > 0:40:32they don't have any panic alarms or they can't call anyone.
0:40:32 > 0:40:39Ravi, he would just be thinking, "What have I got myself into?"
0:40:39 > 0:40:41Cos it was his first day.
0:40:41 > 0:40:46He doesn't work there, he just came to help out and he experienced this.
0:40:48 > 0:40:53He told me that they were swearing and yelling at them.
0:40:53 > 0:40:57Again, the screaming at the shopkeeper, he's got a shot gun pointed at him,
0:40:57 > 0:41:00constantly, "Give us the money! Give us the effing money!"
0:41:00 > 0:41:04They don't care about feelings and thoughts
0:41:04 > 0:41:08of the shop workers at all, these guys are absolutely petrified.
0:41:08 > 0:41:13Beveridge and co, they don't care what effect they leave behind.
0:41:16 > 0:41:22It was around 10.30, we were just finishing up with the barbecue.
0:41:22 > 0:41:26We had nice food and we had a few beers and all that, a nice time.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28And the time goes quickly.
0:41:28 > 0:41:32My husband got a call from the shop. I didn't hear what they were saying,
0:41:32 > 0:41:35but he was just like, "OK, I'm coming," then cut the phone.
0:41:35 > 0:41:40And then he told us that the shop's been robbed with armed robbers.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46My husband and Mani just ran out the door, and that's when
0:41:46 > 0:41:48they met the boys outside.
0:41:50 > 0:41:52Mani goes to respond to his friend
0:41:52 > 0:41:55who works in the shop, saying, "We're being robbed."
0:41:55 > 0:41:57So he comes out of the house
0:41:57 > 0:42:00and is making the relatively short distance to his shop,
0:42:00 > 0:42:03the last thing he expects is to encounter the same gang
0:42:03 > 0:42:05that has just robbed the shop.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08But that's the coincidence, that's what happens in this case.
0:42:08 > 0:42:13I just saw everything, you know, happening, but I couldn't process it.
0:42:13 > 0:42:17I see the gun that one of them is holding in their hand,
0:42:17 > 0:42:20then I know these are the boys who robbed the shop.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22My husband and Mani, they are moving towards them.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25I got scared, so I told them to be careful.
0:42:25 > 0:42:27They said, "We're gonna shoot you."
0:42:27 > 0:42:29He stopped in his tracks.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33But again, he didn't know, was that gun loaded?
0:42:33 > 0:42:35The neighbours were screaming, "Don't shoot!"
0:42:35 > 0:42:38And Beveridge fires the gun.
0:42:38 > 0:42:40I heard a bang.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44And Mani didn't make a noise or anything,
0:42:44 > 0:42:48he just fell and I just, I just totally freaked out.
0:42:50 > 0:42:54I didn't know what to think, I didn't know if he was hurt or...
0:42:55 > 0:42:58- I don't know. - I heard the noise, bang!
0:43:01 > 0:43:05I don't feel straight away pain. After a bit later, feel the pain,
0:43:05 > 0:43:09then I realise I got something, then the ambulance took me.
0:43:09 > 0:43:14His injuries were minor. It could have been a lot worse.
0:43:14 > 0:43:18He knows that, we know that. He could have been killed.
0:43:19 > 0:43:22After shooting at Mani, the gang ran off.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24But they left a trail of evidence.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26'It's a classic game of cops and robbers.
0:43:26 > 0:43:27'They're going out robbing,
0:43:27 > 0:43:30'they know the cops are going to be not far behind them.'
0:43:30 > 0:43:32They want to try and stay one step ahead of us.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35But these weren't sophisticated criminals.
0:43:35 > 0:43:39These guys didn't know what they were doing.
0:43:39 > 0:43:42They weren't even wearing gloves, you know.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45You'd think if they had come to rob a shop, they would wear gloves
0:43:45 > 0:43:48or have proper masks on their face to cover their faces.
0:43:48 > 0:43:50They didn't have gloves and they touched everything,
0:43:50 > 0:43:53that's how the police caught them. They touched everything.
0:43:53 > 0:43:57They left us so many clues.
0:43:57 > 0:43:59We were able, from watching the CCTV,
0:43:59 > 0:44:01to direct the crime scene investigator
0:44:01 > 0:44:04to examine the places that they had touched.
0:44:04 > 0:44:07One put his hands right on top of the Liverpool Echo,
0:44:07 > 0:44:09grabbed the top of the glass partition.
0:44:10 > 0:44:13What Beveridge got hold of now is his mobile phone top-ups,
0:44:13 > 0:44:16his fingerprints were found all over that box.
0:44:20 > 0:44:23Once we had those fingerprints recovered,
0:44:23 > 0:44:28we had to quickly liaise with our fingerprints and forensic department
0:44:28 > 0:44:31to identify who these people were.
0:44:31 > 0:44:35And that's when I got told, it's Jobe Kilbride. He's 13 years of age.
0:44:35 > 0:44:39That, for me... The first thing I asked them to do was check it -
0:44:39 > 0:44:41you know, can you check that's right?
0:44:41 > 0:44:44I've got a 13-year-old who is committing an armed robbery.
0:44:44 > 0:44:47They checked it, it came back, yeah, it's right.
0:44:47 > 0:44:51And it was at that point it was like, I am completely shocked,
0:44:51 > 0:44:53gobsmacked in fact.
0:44:53 > 0:44:58I didn't realise he was 13. I thought maybe 17, 16, 18.
0:44:58 > 0:45:0113 is a surprise for me.
0:45:01 > 0:45:05When he got the sentence, that day only, I know he is 13. My God!
0:45:05 > 0:45:10When we arrested Kilbride, we seized his mobile phone.
0:45:10 > 0:45:11Once we looked at his mobile phone,
0:45:11 > 0:45:15is there any evidence on that phone that can assist us?
0:45:15 > 0:45:18We find that picture that one of his friends had taken of him.
0:45:22 > 0:45:25Happily stood there, holding a shotgun.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27Boasting that I am happy to carry this
0:45:27 > 0:45:29and ultimately go out and use this weapon.
0:45:29 > 0:45:32I'm a mum of a boy who is 13 next week,
0:45:32 > 0:45:37you know, he wouldn't... He's never even seen a real gun.
0:45:39 > 0:45:41I don't even know how these people get guns.
0:45:47 > 0:45:49Would you know where to get a gun?
0:46:00 > 0:46:03As a 20-year-old, I have heard of crimes
0:46:03 > 0:46:06that have involved people around the same age as me,
0:46:06 > 0:46:11but children using guns, this is the first time I've seen this.
0:46:11 > 0:46:18It upsets me to think that is happening in, like, my generation.
0:46:19 > 0:46:22Within hours of them committing that offence,
0:46:22 > 0:46:23we had the first couple in custody.
0:46:23 > 0:46:26Within 24 hours of it, they were all in custody.
0:46:27 > 0:46:32The five members of the gang, ranging in age from 13 to 18,
0:46:32 > 0:46:37were Jobe Kilbride, Dylan Currie, Declan Culshaw,
0:46:37 > 0:46:43and best friends Declan Kilbride and Bradley Beveridge.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47For me, the driving force behind these offences was Beveridge.
0:46:47 > 0:46:49Knowing his previous convictions
0:46:49 > 0:46:51and what he has been in trouble for in the past,
0:46:51 > 0:46:54it didn't surprise me with him. But for all the others,
0:46:54 > 0:46:56to go from no criminal record
0:46:56 > 0:47:00to your first one on your list is armed robbery,
0:47:00 > 0:47:05it is something very, very rare. Very rare indeed.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16I'm sorry...
0:47:16 > 0:47:19they look like scum.
0:47:19 > 0:47:22And they are scum.
0:47:22 > 0:47:25Him - I hope he never gets out.
0:48:08 > 0:48:10One of the guys, I think the 18-year-old one,
0:48:10 > 0:48:14he actually, erm...
0:48:14 > 0:48:17started shouting...
0:48:17 > 0:48:22swearing at the judge about the sentence he got.
0:48:41 > 0:48:45If they are going to behave like that towards a judge,
0:48:45 > 0:48:47then how safe are we?
0:48:49 > 0:48:54I...I don't think we are safe at all.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02Chris is not a violent man, he's like your gentle giant.
0:49:02 > 0:49:05But if pushed, he could look after himself.
0:49:05 > 0:49:07He has always been my...
0:49:08 > 0:49:10strong guy. He's the one who has looked after us,
0:49:10 > 0:49:13and the fact that someone, some...
0:49:15 > 0:49:17..punks, for want of a better word,
0:49:17 > 0:49:21got the better of him on that night, upsets me.
0:49:21 > 0:49:22It really does.
0:49:22 > 0:49:24Cos he is the one who makes me feel safe,
0:49:24 > 0:49:28and I'm sure for one minute he didn't feel safe that night.
0:49:32 > 0:49:33'After it happened,
0:49:33 > 0:49:37'I think I went through every range of emotions, to be honest.'
0:49:38 > 0:49:39Guilt.
0:49:41 > 0:49:43Anxiety.
0:49:43 > 0:49:44Stupidity.
0:49:47 > 0:49:51I felt disappointed in myself, to a degree...
0:49:54 > 0:49:57..that I wasn't protecting the family, as you're supposed to.
0:49:59 > 0:50:02I was snappy, losing my temper.
0:50:02 > 0:50:07And not wanting to talk. Couldn't sleep.
0:50:07 > 0:50:11Been to the doctors, the doctor thinks I've got post-traumatic stress.
0:50:14 > 0:50:17For a while, I was really worried about him afterwards,
0:50:17 > 0:50:18for obvious reasons.
0:50:18 > 0:50:21Even now, I still think he has his moments.
0:50:27 > 0:50:28On the night he was murdered,
0:50:28 > 0:50:31Tom ap Rhys Pryce was returning from an evening out.
0:50:31 > 0:50:33Cameras at Kensal Green tube station
0:50:33 > 0:50:37capture him passing the ticket barrier, but he never made it home.
0:50:37 > 0:50:39These are the teenagers who ended his life -
0:50:39 > 0:50:41Donnel Carty and Delano Brown.
0:50:41 > 0:50:43They are seen here running from the tube station,
0:50:43 > 0:50:46where they had already robbed another man,
0:50:46 > 0:50:50taking his phone and money. They then chose their next target.
0:50:50 > 0:50:53The following day, on the 13th,
0:50:53 > 0:50:57bearing in mind you have actually got cordons
0:50:57 > 0:51:00all around that area where Tom was murdered,
0:51:00 > 0:51:03Donnel Carty makes his way back to Kensal Green station
0:51:03 > 0:51:08and tries to use Tom's Oyster card.
0:51:08 > 0:51:11This is Donnel Carty appearing.
0:51:11 > 0:51:13He's trying to swipe the card.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16It beggars belief that he could do that.
0:51:16 > 0:51:19Initially, I would think about, being so naive,
0:51:19 > 0:51:23how could someone do that? Then you look at it,
0:51:23 > 0:51:26and the area would literally have been full of police,
0:51:26 > 0:51:29yet he was quite happy to go and try
0:51:29 > 0:51:33and use Tom ap Rhys Pryce's Oyster card at Kensal Green station.
0:51:33 > 0:51:36And not only using it, asking a member of staff
0:51:36 > 0:51:38if there was any credit on it.
0:51:38 > 0:51:41That he could do that, it goes beyond naivety,
0:51:41 > 0:51:44it does show unbelievable levels of arrogance.
0:51:44 > 0:51:49We were both brought up as Christians and taught, you know,
0:51:49 > 0:51:52that redemption is always possible,
0:51:52 > 0:51:57and that forgiveness is one of the key aspects of Christianity.
0:51:57 > 0:52:01And that to have - and this is a cliche, I know -
0:52:01 > 0:52:05but to have hate in your heart doesn't help
0:52:05 > 0:52:08and it actually makes you feel worse, at the end of the day.
0:52:08 > 0:52:11So I think we were more interested, probably,
0:52:11 > 0:52:16in trying to reach some sort of understanding as to what
0:52:16 > 0:52:20brings somebody into acting in this way.
0:52:20 > 0:52:24You know, you either feel it's an eye for an eye or tooth for a tooth,
0:52:24 > 0:52:30which is the kind of, you know, you pay back somebody, or you...
0:52:30 > 0:52:31Turn the other cheek.
0:52:31 > 0:52:36..you have the Christian view, which is that you forgive.
0:52:37 > 0:52:41After Tom's death, a memorial trust was set up in his name
0:52:41 > 0:52:45by his law firm, his fiancee and his parents.
0:52:45 > 0:52:49Well, Tom's trust aims to help disadvantaged children
0:52:49 > 0:52:52in London with education or training
0:52:52 > 0:52:58to try and prevent them going down the wrong road.
0:52:58 > 0:53:03Anything we can do in the way of providing sports facilities,
0:53:03 > 0:53:05or music facilities, or educational facilities,
0:53:05 > 0:53:11is going to enrich their lives, and that's really what it's all about.
0:53:11 > 0:53:17Tom's fiancee made this statement and it was read out in court.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20"On the day Tom was killed, he made contact with a priest
0:53:20 > 0:53:22"who was due to conduct our wedding ceremony.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25"He printed off the details he had received that afternoon,
0:53:25 > 0:53:28"together with his wedding vows. They were found later that night,
0:53:28 > 0:53:33"strewn around the pavement, as the paramedics battled to save his life.
0:53:33 > 0:53:36"In a matter of seconds, wedding plans and a future together
0:53:36 > 0:53:39"had changed to funeral plans and a lifetime apart.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41"The pain is unlike anything I have ever experienced,
0:53:41 > 0:53:44"unlike anything I could ever imagine.
0:53:44 > 0:53:46"I feel as though Carty and Brown have ripped out my heart
0:53:46 > 0:53:50"with their bare hands and torn it very slowly into pieces.
0:53:51 > 0:53:55"There are no more tomorrows here for me and Tom
0:53:55 > 0:53:59"and all our hopes and dreams have been brutally torn away.
0:53:59 > 0:54:02"I just hope that there is something better for us on the other side.
0:54:02 > 0:54:05"In the meantime, just as hate and bitterness
0:54:05 > 0:54:08"had no place in Tom's life, neither will they in his memory.
0:54:08 > 0:54:12"I am determined to ensure, along with many others,
0:54:12 > 0:54:15"that as much good as possible comes out of this horrific tragedy."
0:54:22 > 0:54:26Right now, I'm at my second year of university,
0:54:26 > 0:54:30studying urban dance practice at the University of East London.
0:54:34 > 0:54:38'Yeah, I would say dance is my biggest passion.'
0:54:38 > 0:54:42And maybe because, I think I do it
0:54:42 > 0:54:46because I am kind of good at it!
0:54:51 > 0:54:54I have done so much in the time they've been in prison, but I don't
0:54:54 > 0:54:58see them any different, cos there's no reason to see them any different.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03Nothing's really changed between me and them.
0:55:12 > 0:55:15We were a trusting bunch, and that trust was certainly betrayed.
0:55:15 > 0:55:16It makes you question
0:55:16 > 0:55:20people's character and whether you are quite getting it right or not.
0:55:20 > 0:55:21That is a sad thing as well, because,
0:55:21 > 0:55:24although we probably won't now, if we ended up going down
0:55:24 > 0:55:27to Tooting Common again and a whole load of lads would come
0:55:27 > 0:55:29and approach us to play, which is natural,
0:55:29 > 0:55:31we would probably think twice about it.
0:55:33 > 0:55:35It's always in the back of your head.
0:55:35 > 0:55:40Group of lads get into the car now, I can't wait to get them out.
0:55:42 > 0:55:46I don't know how we'll ever get over that. So, no.
0:55:46 > 0:55:49No, I won't forgive them. They don't deserve it.
0:55:51 > 0:55:56When I got married, I had all these expectations, these ambitions,
0:55:56 > 0:56:00these dreams of starting a new life with my husband.
0:56:00 > 0:56:05But just a few months into our new life, you know,
0:56:05 > 0:56:09all these unexpected events happened
0:56:09 > 0:56:16and, erm...it's made me, erm...anxious
0:56:16 > 0:56:20about, you know, what lies ahead.
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