A specialist Met team has broken up a criminal network after catching three members who launched a hammer attack on a Tooting pawnbrokers.

Two of the trio of organised crime gang members were sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on Wednesday, 26 August to a total of nine years following the heist last October that left the shop workers shaken.

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