Man guilty of Potter actor murder

Rob Knox was stabbed as he tried to protect his younger brother

A man accused of stabbing 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.

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'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.

Mr Knox, from Swanley, Kent, played the part of Marcus Belby in the film Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.