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Actor's kin want knife crime curb

Updated on 25 May 2008

By John Sparks

The family of the young actor who was stabbed to death in Kent speak about their loss and call for tougher action against knife crime.

Robert Knox, who was 18, and had just been filming scenes in the new Harry Potter film, was attacked during a fight in Sidcup in Kent.

He'd been trying to protect his younger brother.

His parents called him "an angel on earth" who'd always put everyone before himself.

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