Thomas Ap Rhys-Pryce
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Thomas Mervyn ap Rhys Pryce 13 October 1974 Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, UK |
| Died | 12 January 2006 (aged 31) Kensal Green, London, UK |
| Cause of death | Murder by stabbing |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Known for | Murder victim |
| Partner(s) | Adele Eastman (engaged) |
Thomas Mervyn "Tom" ap Rhys Pryce (13 October 1974 – 12 January 2006) was a 31-year-old British lawyer who was robbed and murdered by two black teenagers as he made his way home in Kensal Green, northwest London, on 12 January 2006. The two, Donnel Carty and Delano Brown, showed little or no remorse and were sentenced to life imprisonment.
The crime gained national notoriety for the particularly brutal way in which Pryce was murdered, only metres from his own home, and had only his Oyster card and mobile phone taken from him, but no money (the case being widely reported as an example of steaming). The murderers were later tracked down when the police examined CCTV footage of where the Oyster card was used after the murder. The crime caused a political uproar and condemnation of railway station security. The Tom ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust was set up after the murder, and a school was built in his honour.
Tom ap Rhys Pryce was a 31-year-old lawyer who worked for Linklaters, a London corporate law firm. Pryce was born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England. At the age of three, the Pryce family moved to Somalia after Pryce's father, John, a civil engineer, was sent to work there as part of a project to build a sugar factory, there he "enjoyed an idyllic early childhood". After 18 months they returned home to Hertfordshire before moving in 1980 to the family home in Weybridge where Tom grew up. His ancestry was one well known within the military and among his ancestors was his great-grandfather, General Sir Henry Edward ap Rhys Pryce (1874–1950). At 13, Tom won an academic and music exhibition which was later upgraded to a full scholarship at 16 to attend Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England.
There he achieved passes at A-levels in Greek, Latin and English Literature, with three grade As. From there Pryce went on to gain a First-Class honours at Trinity College, Cambridge in June 1996, where he read Classics staying on to study for a masters. Pryce was also known to be a talented musician and lived on Bathurst Gardens, Kensal Green in a flat which he shared with his fiancée Adele Eastman, 31, a solicitor specialising in employment law with Farrer & Co, the Queen's solicitors.
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