Top lawyer killed yards from home

By The Newsroom

Published 14th Jan 2006, 12:14 BST

POLICE appealed for witnesses today to a fatal "vicious and gratuitous attack" on a City lawyer just yards from his home.

Tom ap Rhys Pryce, 31, who worked for a leading corporate law firm, was attacked and killed.

Detectives believe he had been trying to defend himself when the two young black men launched their "ferocious" assault.