The parents of the young Harry Potter actor who was killed in a stabbing attack in London hope his death will force the British government to do something about the growing problem of knife crime.
Robert Knox, a British teenage actor playing a minor role in the upcoming Harry Potter movie as Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby, was stabbed to death during a brawl. Word leaking out is that he was defending his younger brother. The 18-year old was fatally wounded after he was involved in a fight outside a bar in southwest London early Saturday, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Robert died outside the Metro Bar in Sidcup. The wounded includes the following: There must have been six people who he stabbed. It was terrible.” His accomplice fled. One of their group, 21-year-old Dean Saunders, is thought to have been stabbed three times on the left side of his neck.

He was “serious” in hospital last night but his condition was not thought to be life-threatening. Andrew Dormer, 16, was stabbed in the chest but released from hospital yesterday afternoon to join well-wishers laying flowers at the murder scene. Other friends of the Knox brothers hurt in the incident were Nick Jones, 19, who was stabbed in the hand, and Charlie Grimley, 17, cut in the cheek and arm and Tom Hopkins, 18, struck on the back of the head.