This week Han is living her best funemployed life (interviews pending, privilege duly checked, pottering about as a fun auntie), which means that before we get anywhere near a murder we get into: the great "she's not mine" saga, in which she spent an entire festival being mistaken for Will's wife and handled it with all the grace of a woman several ciders deep; the Broadstairs school trip that gave us the working title of Rachel's autobiography, I'd Like to Not Have Wet Knickers on a School Trip; a very stern telling-off from a five-year-old about the perils of smoking; the discovery of "pissy feach" on a Japanese honeymoon (yes, Japan came up again, it's called growth); and Rach staying up until half four in the morning to silently scream through England v Mexico. You know. The usual.

And then, as ever, things take a turn.

Content warning: this one covers the murder of a teenage boy, knife crime, serious injury and a great deal of grief. Please look after yourselves.

On 24 May 2008, 18-year-old Robert Knox was stabbed to death outside the Metro Bar in Sidcup, just four days after wrapping his breakout role as Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Rach tells the story of who Rob really was: the Sidcup boy, the M&S Saturday-job hero, the D&B Theatre School kid making twenty-quid zombie films with his best mate, and the brother who ran straight towards danger to protect his little brother Jamie. We get into the man who killed him, Karl Bishop, and his long, violent history. The police failures that left a known, dangerous suspect walking free. The Old Bailey trial, the chilling lack of remorse, and a family who took the most unimaginable loss and built a foundation, a film festival and a knife-crime campaign out of it.

It's a heartbreaker, but it's really a story about a life, not an ending. Watch the documentary (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story when you're done. 

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