Three people have been found guilty of the 'honeytrap' death of a professional poker player.
Kyrron Jackson, 28, and Nicholas Chandler, 29, were convicted by a jury of Mehmet Hassan's murder after Jackson's girlfriend Leonie-Marie Granger set the trap.
Care assistant Granger, 25, was found guilty of manslaughter for deliberately targeting the 56-year-old.
Granger had already pleaded guilty of robbery and was found guilty of false imprisonment. The jury found her not guilty of murder.
Chandler had to be restrained by court guards after he began lashing out as the verdicts were handed down.
The court heard how Granger went on dates with Mr Hassan and afterwards reported back that her target was "flashy".
A taxi driver overheard her saying: "This guy is a professional gambler. He has never worked a day in his life."
On the night of the murder, Mr Hassan took Granger to top Mayfair restaurant Nobu before going on to the Palm Beach Casino nearby, where he gave her £1,000 in cash to gamble with.
She was seen kissing the victim "passionately" and a poker supervisor felt compelled to tell the pair to "get a room".
Later he took her back to his Islington flat where she let in her boyfriend Jackson and his friend Chandler as she left to get into a taxi.
The two men used parcel tape to tie up Mr Hassan in his bedroom then kicked him to death and ransacked his home.
The killers were later filmed on Granger's mobile phone throwing wads of £50 notes in the air.
Mr Hassan was a regular at the Playboy Casino on Old Park Lane and the Palm Beach Casino in Berkeley Street, Mayfair, and sometimes won as much as £15,000 at a time.
The divorced father-of-three would keep his winnings around his flat, even keeping thousands of pounds in his microwave.
Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told jurors he was known to enjoy "the company of women" which made him particularly "vulnerable to the unscrupulous".
Jackson and Chandler had been involved in two armed robberies at the same casino in South Kensington in January and February last year but with limited success.
In each case, guns were used and the victims were tied up and subjected to violence.
The jury was shown CCTV footage of the dramatic raids as well as clips of Granger and Mr Hassan together in the casino before the killing.
In her defence, Granger admitted being involved in a plan to rob Mr Hassan, but denied being party to the murder.
While Jackson denied involvement in the murder, Chandler told the court he had stayed in the car outside an address in Islington playing Flappy Bird and Candy Crush while his friend went inside.
Jackson, of Romborough Way, Lewisham, south east London, and Chandler, of Lee High Road, south east London, were further convicted of robbing Mr Hassan, two counts of plotting to rob employees of Grosvenor Casinos, two counts of conspiracy to have a shotgun and imitation firearm in January last year, and two counts of conspiracy to falsely imprison.
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