Karl Bishop, 22, is jailed for life for the murder of Harry Potter actor Rob Knox.
Bishop stabbed Rob Knox five times outside the Metro Bar in London last year and wounded three of his friends - one of which was stabbed in the neck causing permanent spinal damage.
The minimum sentence he will serve is 20 years in prison with no option of parole before then! however, he has also been given another 3 concurrent life sentences for the injuries he inflicted on Knox’s friends.
Mr Justice Bean sentenced Bishop - he said:
“lack of regret let alone remorse was truly chilling”.
“I do not think it is proved that you intended to kill Robert Knox. The truth is that you simply could not care less whether you killed him or not.”
Bishop denied murder and other counts of wounding even though eye witnesses watched the event occur. He claimed that he was acting in self defence even though there was overwhelming evidence suggesting the opposite and that Knox was in fact protecting his younger brother from Bishop when he was killed.
Knox’s father said:-
“We are enormously relieved justice has been done, although there is nothing that will compensate for the shattering sense of loss.”
It also came to light that Bishop has previously been involved in a knife-point robbery but had not been charged.
Knox had just finished filming on Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince as Marcus Belby - due to be released in July 2009.