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| An armed gang led by murderers Donnel Carty and Delano Brown has been jailed after a campaign of 150 robberies. | An armed gang led by murderers Donnel Carty and Delano Brown has been jailed after a campaign of 150 robberies. |
| The Kensal Green Gang stabbed, punched and kicked their victims during eight months of robberies, including numerous attacks on London Underground trains. | The Kensal Green Gang stabbed, punched and kicked their victims during eight months of robberies, including numerous attacks on London Underground trains. |
| Described as a "pack of animals", members were jailed awaiting sentence at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court. | |
| Carty, 19, and Brown, 18, stabbed City lawyer Tom ap Rhys Pryce to death during a January 2006 mugging. | Carty, 19, and Brown, 18, stabbed City lawyer Tom ap Rhys Pryce to death during a January 2006 mugging. |
| Commuters were wounded in the neck, chest and legs and threatened with death while being robbed. | |
| Gang members threatened one female victim with rape at gunpoint unless she surrendered her valuables. | |
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| Jurors heard details of 32 assaults on London Underground trains, when items including iPods, mobile phones, watches and cash were stolen. | |
| Police said the gang was responsible for up to 70 attacks on the Underground, most of them in north west London. Property worth thousands of pounds was stolen. | |
| The gang compiled a robbery guide to Underground stations, found in the bedroom of one of the members. | |
| Stations were rated according to their police presence and the likelihood that victims would resist. | |
| The Kensal Green Gang's attacks culminated in the murder of 31-year-old Mr ap Rhys Pryce at Kensal Green Tube station in north west London. | |
| The robberies included the murder of lawyer Tom ap Rhys Pryce | |
| He was stabbed repeatedly as Carty and Brown robbed him of his mobile phone, Oyster travel card and £20 in cash. | |
| Carty and Brown were jailed for life for his killing at the Old Bailey in December 2006. | |
| On Monday Toyan Vassall, 18, from Stanmore, Ishmael Cowell, 23, and Harry Bees, 17, both from Harrow, and Kariem Al-Ebadi, 18, from Willesden, were convicted of conspiracy to rob. | |
| Vassall, Cowell and Bees were also found guilty of three charges of wounding with intent. | |
| They will be sentenced on 19 March with two other gang members, who admitted conspiracy to rob and some of the individual attacks. | |
| They were Aaron Dennis, 19, from Harrow, and Sebastian Chidi, 19, from Notting Hill. | |
| Another defendant - Andre Lake, 22, from Kenton - was cleared of the conspiracy count after maintaining he was with the gang but played no part in the robberies. |