Robert Arthur Knox was an 18-year-old actor who had played ‘Marcus Belby’ in two feature films of the ‘Harry Potter’ saga: ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’.
After the recordings of the last film in this saga ended, the young man was stabbed in a nightclub in the town of Sidcup, England, after having defended his younger brother, since he was angry at having lost a fight in days. past.
Who was Robert Knox?
Robert Arthur Knox was born on August 21, 1989 in London, England. From the age of five he started in the world of acting. The British had participated in several ‘castings’, achieving his first secondary role in the police drama film ‘The Bill’ of the year 2000.
Since then, Knox continued to participate in several film and television projects: ‘Trust Me, I’m a Teenager’, ‘Himself’, ‘The Silence of the Clams’ and ‘Drake & Josh, Merry Christmas’. Finally, he played the Hogwarts student ‘Marcus Belby’ in the sixth and seventh ‘Harry Potter’ films.
the tragic night
On Saturday, May 24, 2008, the British man had gone out with his brother and several of his friends to a well-known bar in London. Robert’s younger brother had had a confrontation days before in the same place, with Karl Bishop, 21 years old. .
That night, Bishop stood at the entrance to the nightspot with two knives, waiting for Knox’s group of friends to arrive at the establishment. The assailant stabbed the celebrity several times in the chest, after he was defending his friends from the attacker. The ambulance arrived instantly to take him to a London hospital, but he died hours later, as he had lost too much blood.
The news of the boy’s death spread throughout the UK media. In addition, his castmates were present at the funeral. In the same way, the producer of the saga, Warner Bros., made an official statement expressing its condolences to the family of the deceased, and stressed that the event shocked the entire company. .
The trial for the attacker
On March 4, 2009, the Old Balley Court in London found Karl Bishop guilty of Knox’s murder. He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder and the injuries he committed to the companions of the famous.
The prosecutor in the case, Brian Altman, said at trial that the killer carried “knives like other people carry pencils in their pockets” to stab people, as it seemed to him an “hazard of the trade.” After the verdict was announced , the mother of the deceased, Sally Knox, assured that she was going to campaign to eradicate violence with sharp weapons. “We will work to ensure that he did not die in vain,” the woman said at a press conference in a London media.
In memory of Arthur
During the Bexley Film Festival, which took place in June 2009, it was decided to change the name to ‘The Rob Knox Film Festival’, in order to pay homage to the artist.
Additionally, a concert was developed to pay tribute to the actor, which took place at the St John the Evangelist church, in Sidcup, in May 2010. Musical groups such as Live Politics, DJ Ironik and others created a totally free show for the people who attended the event. Even at the premiere that was held for the feature film ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’, the cast and the production team wore white handcuffs to pay tribute to the young man.