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| A City lawyer was targeted by two teenagers who stabbed him to death outside a Tube station, the Old Bailey has heard. | A City lawyer was targeted by two teenagers who stabbed him to death outside a Tube station, the Old Bailey has heard. |
| Tom ap Rhys Pryce died outside Kensal Green underground station, which was near his home, in January this year. | Tom ap Rhys Pryce died outside Kensal Green underground station, which was near his home, in January this year. |
| The prosecution told the court the 31-year-old was a proud man who may have struggled with the muggers. | |
| Donnel Carty, 19, of Kensal Green, and Delano Brown, 18, of Sudbury Hill, both north west London, deny murder. | Donnel Carty, 19, of Kensal Green, and Delano Brown, 18, of Sudbury Hill, both north west London, deny murder. |
| Richard Horwell, QC, prosecuting, told the court the Cambridge graduate was on his way home when he was attacked, the motive for which was "greed". | |
| Tom ap Rhys Pryce was a proud man and there is a real prospect that he did not submit to the robbers' demands Prosecutor Richard Horwell, QC | |
| "It did not matter to them that this man had worked hard for his position in life, that he had a promising career in the legal system ahead of him," he told the jury. | |
| "All that was best in life was ahead of him but to them he was no more than a means to an end and they treated him accordingly. | |
| "Tom ap Rhys Pryce was a proud man and there is a real prospect that he did not submit to the demands of the robbers. | |
| "He may well have taken them on and if he did, the robbers rose to the challenge." | |
| Mr Horwell said at least one knife was used and Mr ap Rhys Pryce was stabbed in the hip and twice in the chest. | |
| CCTV footage | |
| He told the court all they took was an Oyster card, his bank cards, driving licence and mobile phone. | |
| Mr Horwell alleged Mr Carty and Mr Brown had attacked another man, Kurshid Ali, in the station 20 minutes earlier. | |
| The jury was shown CCTV footage showing Mr Ali being robbed on a platform. | |
| The police later discovered the defendants were members of a gang who stabbed two victims during the course of robberies three weeks before, Mr Horwell told the court. |