Robbed Our Crime

We are the generation that film everything.

Even our crimes.

On phones and on CCTV, they are uploaded and shared online.

The crimes in this film were all vicious robberies committed by teenagers.

They just targeted whoever they felt they could go for.

It was literally jump and take.

They used force to steal from their victims.

As a 20-year-old, it upsets me

to think that it's happening in my generation.

The results were psychological trauma, physical injury and murder.

No, I won't forgive them. They don't deserve it.

Brrr-rap!

This programme contains some strong language and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting

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G-Block was a violent teenage gang.

They attacked lone women in Tooting, South London,

boasting openly about their crimes on MSN.

It was Halloween and about 8.30 at night.

Very dark, cold and I was coming back from the gym

and I was listening to Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 on my iPod.

It was quite calm, relaxing Latin music.

I was walking down Clydesdale Road

and I saw four guys in the distance and three guys on the other side

of the road and I noticed they were wearing masks from the film Scream.

As I got closer to them,

they pushed me into a brick wall on the side of the road

and I was in disbelief that they were mugging me, they were attacking me.

I had my handbag on my shoulder and they were trying to take it off me.

I remember thinking, "I'm not going to let you have this,

"because this should not be the kind of thing you are doing

"and I don't want to make it easy to just take somebody's belongings.

"I am going to fight with you."

We were struggling and turning round in circles

and banging against the wall and they were all pushing against me.

All they wanted to do was boast about who had caused what injury

and that led them to escalate the violence, which progressively

got worse and worse and worse.

I had four of these guys on top of me

and the three guys from over the road saw there was a struggle

and came over and I thought, "They might hurt me if I don't let go."

So I decided to let go of the bag, but as I let go of the bag,

I thought, "I'm going to take something that belongs to you."

So I reached out and grabbed the Scream mask off one of their heads,

and they scattered.

They just targeted whoever they felt they could go for.

It wasn't necessarily gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.

It was literally jump and take.

One of the people they mugged, she lost her baby

while she was pregnant at the time. She has lost her baby.

Hearing that someone has lost their baby, you know it's serious.

In the MSN exchanges,

the gang bragged about violent attacks on countless other victims.

They didn't care. They just wanted to prove themselves to each other.

The victim was someone to be used for that purpose.

That's why you had women who offered no resistance,

women who could offer no resistance.

They were so violently attacked, beaten to the floor, kicked,

punched, stamped on.

What we were expecting to find was older youths with a history of street robbery

and that wasn't the case.

When we put our known robbers under the microscope,

to ascertain the likely suspects, we found it wasn't any of them.

Months of police surveillance finally paid off.

We were able to identify Gearing Close as the main meeting point

of this group and they called themselves G-Block.

G-Block wasn't a well established criminal gang,

but a group of apparently ordinary teenagers living on a quiet

close just off Tooting Common.

These were boys that would help people with their shopping

and carry it into their houses.

They played together as a football team and did lots of things

which any normal young boy of that age you would expect to do.

This is Gearing Close. This is where...everything used to happen.

Growing up in Gearing Close,

Dani was good friends with the G-Block boys.

Even though we would be noisy at night playing football or just chilling,

we would always help out with people's shopping and pick up the litter.

I don't think anybody's perception was really that negative.

They were able to give the appearance of being normal, everyday schoolboys,

but the reality is they had a darker secret,

a darker side, which was this gang membership.

There were eight boys in the gang, four of whom lived on the close.

Jordan Rattray, Rubel Ahmed, Abdi Nur and Cyrus Pinnock.

These youths went out nearly every night during this period

committing violent acts of street robbery.

They were armed with knives, iron bars, with mallets,

all of which they used.

While G-Block operated from a quiet South London suburb, another gang

from Kensal Green brought terror to the whole of the London Underground.

"On Friday, the 23rd of December, on the Hammersmith & City Line train,

"the whole group gathered around the victim and one male said, 'Wallet.'

"Then another male produced a knife

"and plunged it into the victim's upper left thigh."

"23rd of December, a group of youths entered a carriage

"then approached the victim.

"One of the groups said to the victim, 'Give me your fucking phone.'

"The male then said, 'Give me your fucking wallet.'"

"Four males began hitting him as they searched his pockets.

"He saw one of the youths produce a knife,

"which he plunged into the victim's left thigh."

If you put up a fight, you get stabbed and you get beaten.

The levels of violence are so disproportionate to what

they want to achieve, which is a wallet and a phone off of people.

It is scary.

We talk about pack mentality, but the levels of violence don't seem right.

I've never seen anything like it.

CCTV helped the police identify a gang of teenage boys.

They called themselves the KG Tribe.

The police didn't know anything of the KG Tribe

until these numerous robberies on the underground.

They lived in the Kensal Green area,

so that's what the KG Tribe stood for.

One of the gang, 18-year-old Donnel Carty,

was a regular at a youth club close to Kensal Green Tube.

Donnel was typical of the young people that we see.

He's black.

He...wasn't doing the best in school.

In fact, a lot of time, he wasn't at school.

I don't think he finished formal schooling.

What we found over the years is that many of the boys who get into trouble

either don't have a relationship with a responsible father,

or their fathers are not in their life at all.

There was a real change in Donnel.

Things started to become a little more out of control

after he stopped living with his father full-time.

Donnel, with his best friend Delano Brown,

became a principal member of the KG Tribe.

What I am about to play is a track recorded by Donnel Carty

and others from the KG Tribe.

# I said high-grade bush I'm in the ends

# Hide and shush

# Burning sea just like toast... #

This is Donnel Carty singing now.

"I want your phone. Make it snappy."

They talk about murders,

robbing people and talk about taking phones off people

which, sadly, is exactly what they did.

On Thursday, January the 12th 2006, Delano Brown

and Donnel Carty were caught on the cameras at Kensal Green Tube.

This footage shows Donnel Carty at the front with the woolly hat

and Delano Brown behind him entering the station.

You've got Donnel Carty here and Delano Brown here.

As they are about to board the train, Delano Brown pulling his hood up

before he gets onto the train.

Just after 11pm that night, Brown and Carty rob a man on the platform.

They threatened him.

They didn't say directly but he believed them to have a knife.

They stole money and a mobile telephone off him.

It's just coming up to 23.05. Donnel Carty to the front, Delano Brown to the back.

They have their hoods up and are crouching down.

This is a station they know well

and they know where the camera positions are.

They turn to the right.

It is the same way that Tom ap Rhys walks some 20 minutes after that.

Tom ap Rhys Pryce was a successful 31-year-old lawyer.

He had recently become engaged to his fiancee Adele Eastman

and they lived together in Kensal Green.

He was a very unique character

and one of his key characteristics

was he was always amazingly optimistic about everything.

He always was interested in everything.

One of his prep school headmasters said that he was

a nice person to have around.

I remember him saying that.

I think that was exactly what Tom was.

He was a nice person to have around.

This footage shows Tom ap Rhys Pryce leaving the station.

You see him turning right,

heading the same way that Donnel Carty and Delano Brown went.

This is the last footage of Tom ap Rhys Pryce alive.

You can see the paperwork under his arm,

which was paperwork for his wedding.

There he appears there again.

He appears there and there and that's it.

The doorbell was ringing at about four o'clock in the morning.

It went on and on.

Eventually, I must have woken up and gone downstairs

and it was his brother, Michael, at the door in floods of tears

saying, "Tom has been killed."

Initially, you are just so shocked and stunned,

it was hard to take in what he was saying.

We all sat down and he told us briefly,

because he didn't have much information on what had happened.

In a violent knife attack, Tom was repeatedly stabbed and beaten.

Delano Brown and Donnel Carty robbed him of his cash,

his mobile phone and an Oyster card.

Tom was a well-travelled lad. He wasn't an innocent in London.

He knew how to diffuse situations.

I think he was coming across something that perhaps he had never

come across in his life before.

These two teenagers,

I think he would not have expected the level of violence.

It is just something he would not have had any understanding of at all.

I don't think we did either.

As we understand it, he gave them everything he had,

but, for whatever reason...

It was not enough.

There was one fatal stab wound that penetrated his heart.

Once he had been stabbed, even if there was a surgeon there,

it was something he couldn't recover from.

The police liaison officer was very helpful.

He did give us advice not to watch the news for a while

and it was very good advice.

Although I have to say I did see footage on the news,

I saw it was on the BBC News. I did see it.

I just thought, "I can't believe he's not still here."

It's very incomprehensible.

-Incomprehensible is the word.

-Gone, just like that.

There he was, then he wasn't.

Just so sudden.

In April 2011, a group of armed teenagers from Liverpool

went on a ten-day rampage

with little thought that their crimes too

would be caught on CCTV.

The incidents took place over a ten-day period and some nights,

they did a couple of jobs one after the other.

There was an attack on a pub,

there was an attack on a couple of taxi drivers.

Then there was the pizza delivery guy. There was a couple of shops.

It was, I would say, a fast-moving enquiry.

For me, one of the overriding images in investigating

these offences is the image of Jobe Kilbride.

What is that?! That to me is just...

Urgh. That makes me feel sick.

That is a very shocking image.

These offences started over the Royal Wedding weekend. There were street parties in Liverpool.

Everybody was watching or celebrating the Royal Wedding.

Because of the extra day off for the Royal Wedding,

I was going to be able to go to Wales and have a long weekend.

Chris was going to have a working weekend.

Ha! That didn't happen.

Liverpool City Council's CCTV captured the moment.

We are coming into Norris Green now.

Not one of my favourite areas at the moment, obviously.

Chris worked hard over Bank Holiday weekends

because that's when it's busiest and when people need taxis, you know?

I haven't had a Bank Holiday off for ten years, 12 years.

The minimum I wanted to make that night was £150. Minimum.

That was the plan.

The plan was working up to 12:55am on the Saturday morning...

when the plan got...shot basically.

This group of lads borrowed a mobile phone off somebody to say,

"Can you do us a favour? Can you ring us a taxi?"

So the taxi gets rang,

they stand in a location, knowing what they're about to do.

Chris Harkness didn't.

-Is that them?

-Yeah, that's them.

There's only three of them.

I'm parked here, out of view.

The last thing he expects to happen is for a group of males to come up

and put a shotgun in his face.

The passenger door was ripped open.

There was someone shouting at me,

"Turn the engine off. Where's the money? Don't do anything or we'll shoot you."

All that went through my mind was, "Why's there a shotgun on my chest?"

It was only when the one in the front shouted something

and they started to move that I caught sight of the police car

at the roundabout and it just kept going. "You're not stopping?"

It's like in the films. "Why aren't you stopping?"

They started to move away cos they'd obviously seen the police car.

That's when I thought, "I'm not hanging around anymore."

I got out and I ran away.

All that's going through my head was

get some distance between myself and the gun.

He ran out of his taxi, threw away his keys.

You can only imagine what was going through his mind at the time.

Maybe I should've stood up to them,

maybe if I had stood up to them, they may have backed down.

If that gun had been used on Chris being so close,

I don't know if he'd have been here now.

That makes me really angry...

Yeah. Sorry.

It does, it makes me really angry.

The moment after the first robbery,

we put all our efforts to get these people caught.

Witness statements to get, house-to-house enquiries, CCTV enquiries

and very quickly, we got the help and information that we needed.

We had a name.

The 18-year-old, he's got a criminal record, Bradley Beveridge.

When Chris Harkness's taxi was robbed, they took his mobile phone.

A few hours later, they used his mobile phone to ring another taxi.

They were then daft enough to use that mobile phone and direct them to,

what turned out to be, Bradley Beveridge's girlfriend's house.

OK, so tell me, why don't you want us to see your face?

OK, tell us a little bit about you and Bradley then.

I've got friends who brought up their child in Norris Green.

Their child wasn't out on the streets at 1am,

I know that for a fact. So it's not everyone from Norris Green.

So where's the excuse, "I was brought up in Norris Green"?

Make another one because that one isn't going to wash.

The offences gradually got a little bit more severe.

Beveridge and his little group got a little bit more confident

and cocky with the fact that up until that point,

they'd been going for ten days, they hadn't been caught.

Police were unaware that the other members of Beveridge's gang

were schoolboys of just 16 and under.

G-Block was the name used by a violent gang

responsible for over 170 muggings.

They came from the quiet residential estate of Gearing Close,

just off the Common in Tooting, south London.

We grew up in Tooting, me and my friends.

We all went our separate ways at university,

but eventually we all come back from university

and a good way for us to stay together was football.

It was a common ground and we used to play on Tooting Common, every Saturday.

Included in that were a bunch of lads who must have been 14, 15,

maybe even 16, who started to become regulars down there,

and there was also a lad called Dani who turned up,

but he was every other week and not so much,

but we knew Dani and he was a very good player.

He was probably the best of the bunch.

He always used to get told off for playing football against the wall,

he used to get shouted at because it's not our property,

cos people are touchy like that within the area.

So then we went over by the Common on Saturdays and there was a few guys there.

I guess, as most people do, we judged them on first impressions,

and decided that, you know, let's give them a game,

and maybe it was because it would help us get the numbers right in the game.

Eventually they'd play with us,

and we took them under our wing and we used to see them every week.

They were nice lads.

If you met them in the street,

you wouldn't feel intimidated by them one little bit in broad daylight,

cos they'd probably be helping their mums with the shopping.

They were almost geekish in many ways.

To me they seemed like an older version of us, but just more white.

They were definitely, you know, a younger version of we what we were probably then.

HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYS

HE LAUGHS

At the time, there was, like, these different dances

that used to come out

and something all the boys and I used to do is that

we used to, like, proper learn them and then actually put them up,

and it only goes to show, like, this is, like, what we used to do.

This is us.

This is the real Gearing Close boys, this is the real G-Block.

Abdi's wearing his Valencia T-shirt that he wore to football most weeks.

Cyrus is wearing some interesting bright red trousers.

It's quite amusing to see them in that scenario.

Some of their moves are great.

They're happy and smiling, and they're just being normal teenagers.

Looking at Abdi there, he's got a big old smile on his face,

and, you know, he's in his element, and picturing this,

you wouldn't imagine that they could intimidate a cat.

Very innocent, normal young boys, you would say,

but this footage was filmed during their robbery spree.

The one question you've got to ask yourself is

how do these innocent young boys in this image here

get to the violent thug there

with his carving knife, hammer and his ski mask?

That is Cyrus Pinnock with the red trousers on,

and that is Cyrus Pinnock in that photograph.

In February 2008, all the G-Block boys including Dani were arrested

and taken in for questioning.

I didn't get involved in any of the robberies, any of the muggings,

any of the beating up people, any of the taking stuff,

whatever they were doing,

because something in me was telling me it's wrong.

Like, it's not right to do that, and with me,

especially maybe it was because I was in a relationship

with a girl that I liked,

or maybe because I was focusing on school

and trying to get my GCSEs and actually go to college.

RAPPING

Having never been involved in any of the muggings,

Dani was not charged with any crime and released.

What did you hear was going on?

I knew that, or I heard that, they were going out and doing stuff.

I knew that they would come back with things

that they never really had before.

And to me it's like, I stayed away from it

and that topic around them

because, like, to me, like, it wasn't right.

We found video footage that we seized off their phones of them

immediately after they robbed a pizza delivery driver,

held a carving knife to his throat.

They've then robbed him of the bike he was actually riding,

and they steal that and later, shortly after that offence,

22 minutes after, I believe,

they then film themselves on a mobile phone trying to start the bike up.

ENGINE REVS

ENGINE REVS

Yes, you can look at that in one aspect and think,

well, it's quite comical.

A group of youths who can't even start a motorbike they've just stolen.

But it also shows almost a blase, naive, stupid attitude

to their offences

and not a thought that they were ever going to get caught.

The police seized the gang's phones and computers.

They discovered that they'd uploaded numerous photos of themselves brandishing weapons

and they'd boasted about their crimes on MSN, MySpace and Bebo.

It was almost manna from heaven as an investigator

to actually look at these crimes you're trying to prove.

You're interviewing the suspect who is saying, "No reply, no comment, no reply, no comment."

The reality is, you don't need him to say anything

because you've got, in the MSN, his conversation of what he did

and the part he played in a street robbery 40 minutes, 30 minutes,

20 minutes after committing the offence.

On 20th October 2007, another victim, Hannah Murray,

was attacked in the street and property was taken from her.

20th of October 2007,

Cyrus - "Oi, guess what?

"Me and Ameel and Abdi and Jordan went sucking and Ameel got an iPod."

Akheem - "What?"

Cyrus - "And I got two phones and a camera."

When we searched Cyrus Pinnock's home address,

one of the items recovered was a digital camera,

which we suspected may have been Hannah Murray's.

She came to the police station, identified the property as hers,

examined the digital camera,

saw images of black youths that she didn't recognise.

At the time she did this, she was with her boyfriend.

I remember sitting there and being absolutely gobsmacked.

Your heart drops.

There must have been seven or eight photos

of lads that I knew very well from the Common, and it was the kids.

They were striking poses in an aggressive nature

and had knives in their hand and it was all very gangster-esque

and it didn't register with me

that that was something they were capable of.

It certainly was, you know, like a stab in the back.

I know it sounds silly

but they didn't know that they were mugging my girlfriend - they didn't know that.

That's not to sympathise with them but that's to say that, you know,

I guess they weren't intentionally trying to stab me in the back personally.

The biggest wrench comes from the fact that

they did play football with us after Hannah's mugging,

and they would've turned that camera on because they used it,

and they would've certainly seen photos of me and my friends as well

and still turned up the next week and shook our hands.

We knew no better at the time and they did.

So that certainly seemed like a real betrayal, definitely.

I wanted to see them and to say, "What the hell? What happened?"

And, "Look what you've done."

I think we saw Dani maybe a couple of times afterwards,

I think it was Dani,

and asked him where the kids were and where's Jordan, Abdi and Cyrus.

I think he fobbed it off with a bit of a smile on his face.

I think he knew that I knew and vice versa.

But we never saw them after that.

You said that it's not your responsibility to stop those crimes.

Whose responsibility was it?

Themselves. The boys.

It's their responsibility because if they know that they're doing wrong,

then they should've stopped it.

Even though I was their friend and I knew them,

it wasn't my... It could... It is my responsibility to stop them

because they're people I associate myself with

and it did make me look bad because I hanged around with them,

but it's not my responsibility because it was none of my business.

To me, I was not involved.

We picked up the pieces.

It took Hannah a long time to really get her confidence back again

and feel comfortable walking the streets in the dark and all the rest of it.

Yeah, it was a nightmare, and very traumatic.

It would be interesting to actually meet one of the victims.

No word of a lie.

Because I want to know... how they feel.

Maybe it might make me be, like, might make me actually sink in,

and be like "Oh, shit. What they did do was really, really bad."

All eight gang members were convicted.

Judge Price at Kingston Crown Court, quite rightly in my eyes,

took the view, these are so serious,

this is such a long period of offending, that the only option was,

as much as he didn't want to lock up youths, was to protect the public.

The only way to do that was to give them lengthy custodial sentences,

which is what occurred.

Friday, 29th April 2011, the day of the Royal Wedding,

was the day a gang of boys from Norris Green in Liverpool

began a ten-day armed robbery spree.

I think it may start off as boredom, or let's do this for a laugh.

Let's get some money. We haven't got any cash.

I'll tell you what we'll do, we could do a robbery.

They robbed taxi drivers, pubs and delivery vehicles.

Their next targets were small local shops.

What we can see is, we've got all our suspects

currently stood in the bus stop outside of the shop.

Culshaw's constantly in and out, you can see on the CCTV, in and out of the shop.

He's casing the joint. He's coming in, having a look.

Is there anybody in the shop?

They wait for the moment when there's no customers.

I moved up to Liverpool around a year ago with my husband, Raj.

Because he runs a business here, a convenience store.

Raj chose Liverpool I guess

because it's easier to find a job than London,

but, yeah, I like the area, I like the people here.

When this happened in our shop, it was a Tuesday.

I was at the shop in the morning.

We were extending our shop,

and Mani was helping with that.

My main work is a shop assistant,

but I do building works, tiling, shelving, on part-time also.

Everyone was tired. They wanted a break,

so we thought, you know, we'll have a barbecue as it was a nice day.

So my husband and Mani, they went out,

they bought some stuff for the barbecue

and the staff, Sam, and the other guy, Ravi,

stayed at work in the shop.

That's...

I think Sam.

They're just getting ready to close the shop. So...

Just moving everything away.

OK, this is when the boys are entering the shop.

The boys come in.

One of them's holding the gun.

Bradley Beveridge, clearly with a shotgun in his hand,

his face covered,

and in come the other two as well, Currie and Kilbride.

Immediately start threatening the shopkeeper.

We see Culshaw in the blue top,

literally just pulls his jumper over his head.

Not a sophisticated criminal.

Didn't even try to conceal his identity very well.

With Priya, her husband and Mani having a barbecue,

the only staff covering the shop were part-time assistants, Sam and Ravi.

This is Ravi. First he thinks they're joking with the gun.

Then he realises it's a real gun so he gets behind the counter.

The staff will be feeling really helpless

because they don't know what to do,

they don't have any panic alarms or they can't call anyone.

Ravi, he would just be thinking, "What have I got myself into?"

Cos it was his first day.

He doesn't work there, he just came to help out and he experienced this.

He told me that they were swearing and yelling at them.

Again, the screaming at the shopkeeper, he's got a shot gun pointed at him,

constantly, "Give us the money! Give us the effing money!"

They don't care about feelings and thoughts

of the shop workers at all, these guys are absolutely petrified.

Beveridge and co, they don't care what effect they leave behind.

It was around 10.30, we were just finishing up with the barbecue.

We had nice food and we had a few beers and all that, a nice time.

And the time goes quickly.

My husband got a call from the shop. I didn't hear what they were saying,

but he was just like, "OK, I'm coming," then cut the phone.

And then he told us that the shop's been robbed with armed robbers.

My husband and Mani just ran out the door, and that's when

they met the boys outside.

Mani goes to respond to his friend

who works in the shop, saying, "We're being robbed."

So he comes out of the house

and is making the relatively short distance to his shop,

the last thing he expects is to encounter the same gang

that has just robbed the shop.

But that's the coincidence, that's what happens in this case.

I just saw everything, you know, happening, but I couldn't process it.

I see the gun that one of them is holding in their hand,

then I know these are the boys who robbed the shop.

My husband and Mani, they are moving towards them.

I got scared, so I told them to be careful.

They said, "We're gonna shoot you."

He stopped in his tracks.

But again, he didn't know, was that gun loaded?

The neighbours were screaming, "Don't shoot!"

And Beveridge fires the gun.

I heard a bang.

And Mani didn't make a noise or anything,

he just fell and I just, I just totally freaked out.

I didn't know what to think, I didn't know if he was hurt or...

-I don't know.

-I heard the noise, bang!

I don't feel straight away pain. After a bit later, feel the pain,

then I realise I got something, then the ambulance took me.

His injuries were minor. It could have been a lot worse.

He knows that, we know that. He could have been killed.

After shooting at Mani, the gang ran off.

But they left a trail of evidence.

'It's a classic game of cops and robbers.

'They're going out robbing,

'they know the cops are going to be not far behind them.'

They want to try and stay one step ahead of us.

But these weren't sophisticated criminals.

These guys didn't know what they were doing.

They weren't even wearing gloves, you know.

You'd think if they had come to rob a shop, they would wear gloves

or have proper masks on their face to cover their faces.

They didn't have gloves and they touched everything,

that's how the police caught them. They touched everything.

They left us so many clues.

We were able, from watching the CCTV,

to direct the crime scene investigator

to examine the places that they had touched.

One put his hands right on top of the Liverpool Echo,

grabbed the top of the glass partition.

What Beveridge got hold of now is his mobile phone top-ups,

his fingerprints were found all over that box.

Once we had those fingerprints recovered,

we had to quickly liaise with our fingerprints and forensic department

to identify who these people were.

And that's when I got told, it's Jobe Kilbride. He's 13 years of age.

That, for me... The first thing I asked them to do was check it -

you know, can you check that's right?

I've got a 13-year-old who is committing an armed robbery.

They checked it, it came back, yeah, it's right.

And it was at that point it was like, I am completely shocked,

gobsmacked in fact.

I didn't realise he was 13. I thought maybe 17, 16, 18.

13 is a surprise for me.

When he got the sentence, that day only, I know he is 13. My God!

When we arrested Kilbride, we seized his mobile phone.

Once we looked at his mobile phone,

is there any evidence on that phone that can assist us?

We find that picture that one of his friends had taken of him.

Happily stood there, holding a shotgun.

Boasting that I am happy to carry this

and ultimately go out and use this weapon.

I'm a mum of a boy who is 13 next week,

you know, he wouldn't... He's never even seen a real gun.

I don't even know how these people get guns.

Would you know where to get a gun?

As a 20-year-old, I have heard of crimes

that have involved people around the same age as me,

but children using guns, this is the first time I've seen this.

It upsets me to think that is happening in, like, my generation.

Within hours of them committing that offence,

we had the first couple in custody.

Within 24 hours of it, they were all in custody.

The five members of the gang, ranging in age from 13 to 18,

were Jobe Kilbride, Dylan Currie, Declan Culshaw,

and best friends Declan Kilbride and Bradley Beveridge.

For me, the driving force behind these offences was Beveridge.

Knowing his previous convictions

and what he has been in trouble for in the past,

it didn't surprise me with him. But for all the others,

to go from no criminal record

to your first one on your list is armed robbery,

it is something very, very rare. Very rare indeed.

I'm sorry...

they look like scum.

And they are scum.

Him - I hope he never gets out.

One of the guys, I think the 18-year-old one,

he actually, erm...

started shouting...

swearing at the judge about the sentence he got.

If they are going to behave like that towards a judge,

then how safe are we?

I...I don't think we are safe at all.

Chris is not a violent man, he's like your gentle giant.

But if pushed, he could look after himself.

He has always been my...

strong guy. He's the one who has looked after us,

and the fact that someone, some...

..punks, for want of a better word,

got the better of him on that night, upsets me.

It really does.

Cos he is the one who makes me feel safe,

and I'm sure for one minute he didn't feel safe that night.

'After it happened,

'I think I went through every range of emotions, to be honest.'

Guilt.

Anxiety.

Stupidity.

I felt disappointed in myself, to a degree...

..that I wasn't protecting the family, as you're supposed to.

I was snappy, losing my temper.

And not wanting to talk. Couldn't sleep.

Been to the doctors, the doctor thinks I've got post-traumatic stress.

For a while, I was really worried about him afterwards,

for obvious reasons.

Even now, I still think he has his moments.

On the night he was murdered,

Tom ap Rhys Pryce was returning from an evening out.

Cameras at Kensal Green tube station

capture him passing the ticket barrier, but he never made it home.

These are the teenagers who ended his life -

Donnel Carty and Delano Brown.

They are seen here running from the tube station,

where they had already robbed another man,

taking his phone and money. They then chose their next target.

The following day, on the 13th,

bearing in mind you have actually got cordons

all around that area where Tom was murdered,

Donnel Carty makes his way back to Kensal Green station

and tries to use Tom's Oyster card.

This is Donnel Carty appearing.

He's trying to swipe the card.

It beggars belief that he could do that.

Initially, I would think about, being so naive,

how could someone do that? Then you look at it,

and the area would literally have been full of police,

yet he was quite happy to go and try

and use Tom ap Rhys Pryce's Oyster card at Kensal Green station.

And not only using it, asking a member of staff

if there was any credit on it.

That he could do that, it goes beyond naivety,

it does show unbelievable levels of arrogance.

We were both brought up as Christians and taught, you know,

that redemption is always possible,

and that forgiveness is one of the key aspects of Christianity.

And that to have - and this is a cliche, I know -

but to have hate in your heart doesn't help

and it actually makes you feel worse, at the end of the day.

So I think we were more interested, probably,

in trying to reach some sort of understanding as to what

brings somebody into acting in this way.

You know, you either feel it's an eye for an eye or tooth for a tooth,

which is the kind of, you know, you pay back somebody, or you...

Turn the other cheek.

..you have the Christian view, which is that you forgive.

After Tom's death, a memorial trust was set up in his name

by his law firm, his fiancee and his parents.

Well, Tom's trust aims to help disadvantaged children

in London with education or training

to try and prevent them going down the wrong road.

Anything we can do in the way of providing sports facilities,

or music facilities, or educational facilities,

is going to enrich their lives, and that's really what it's all about.

Tom's fiancee made this statement and it was read out in court.

"On the day Tom was killed, he made contact with a priest

"who was due to conduct our wedding ceremony.

"He printed off the details he had received that afternoon,

"together with his wedding vows. They were found later that night,

"strewn around the pavement, as the paramedics battled to save his life.

"In a matter of seconds, wedding plans and a future together

"had changed to funeral plans and a lifetime apart.

"The pain is unlike anything I have ever experienced,

"unlike anything I could ever imagine.

"I feel as though Carty and Brown have ripped out my heart

"with their bare hands and torn it very slowly into pieces.

"There are no more tomorrows here for me and Tom

"and all our hopes and dreams have been brutally torn away.

"I just hope that there is something better for us on the other side.

"In the meantime, just as hate and bitterness

"had no place in Tom's life, neither will they in his memory.

"I am determined to ensure, along with many others,

"that as much good as possible comes out of this horrific tragedy."

Right now, I'm at my second year of university,

studying urban dance practice at the University of East London.

'Yeah, I would say dance is my biggest passion.'

And maybe because, I think I do it

because I am kind of good at it!

I have done so much in the time they've been in prison, but I don't

see them any different, cos there's no reason to see them any different.

Nothing's really changed between me and them.

We were a trusting bunch, and that trust was certainly betrayed.

It makes you question

people's character and whether you are quite getting it right or not.

That is a sad thing as well, because,

although we probably won't now, if we ended up going down

to Tooting Common again and a whole load of lads would come

and approach us to play, which is natural,

we would probably think twice about it.

It's always in the back of your head.

Group of lads get into the car now, I can't wait to get them out.

I don't know how we'll ever get over that. So, no.

No, I won't forgive them. They don't deserve it.

When I got married, I had all these expectations, these ambitions,

these dreams of starting a new life with my husband.

But just a few months into our new life, you know,

all these unexpected events happened

and, erm...it's made me, erm...anxious

about, you know, what lies ahead.

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