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| Man guilty of Potter actor murder | Man guilty of Potter actor murder |
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| A man who stabbed 18-year-old Harry Potter actor Rob Knox to death outside a bar in south-east London has been found guilty of murder. | |
| Karl Bishop, 22, from Sidcup, stabbed the teenage actor after a fight outside the Metro Bar in Sidcup last May. | Karl Bishop, 22, from Sidcup, stabbed the teenage actor after a fight outside the Metro Bar in Sidcup last May. |
| Bishop denied murder and five counts of wounding at the Old Bailey. | Bishop denied murder and five counts of wounding at the Old Bailey. |
| Mr Knox was stabbed five times as he defended his brother Jamie from Bishop, the court had heard. Five other people were also stabbed in the fight. | Mr Knox was stabbed five times as he defended his brother Jamie from Bishop, the court had heard. Five other people were also stabbed in the fight. |
| Mr Knox's parents were present in court for the verdict. | |
| Wounding conviction | |
| Bishop was also convicted of wounding Mr Knox's friend Dean Saunders, 23. | |
| But he was found not guilty of wounding another friend, Tom Hopkins, 19. | |
| The judge Mr Justice Bean gave the jury of three women and nine men a majority direction on three other wounding charges. | |
| Bishop, whose face was "screwed up with rage", armed himself with two kitchen knives and lashed out at the victim and his friends, witnesses said. | Bishop, whose face was "screwed up with rage", armed himself with two kitchen knives and lashed out at the victim and his friends, witnesses said. |
| Mr Knox, from Swanley, Kent, played the part of Marcus Belby in the film Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. | Mr Knox, from Swanley, Kent, played the part of Marcus Belby in the film Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. |