This photograph (View image) of Tom ap Rhys Pryce and his fiancée, Adele Eastman, features heavily in today’s national press. It was taken on New Year’s Eve in 2005, less than two weeks before ap Rhys Pryce, who was a litigator at Linklaters, was murdered as he was returning to his home in Kensal Green.

Yesterday, his two teenage killers – Donnel Carty and Delano Brown – were jailed for life sentences at the Old Bailey. Shortly before the sentences were handed out, prosecution counsel Richard Horwell QC read out a statement Eastman, a solicitor at Farrer & Co, had prepared for the court (see below).