A MURDERER has been handed a life sentence today after stabbing a 45-year-old who stepped in to help a couple when they were being threatened by the killer. Lee Knott died after being stabbed multiple times by 19-year-old Tony Robertson, who pleaded guilty to murder and threatening a person with a blade/ sharply pointed in a public place . Robertson was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 20 years. The court was told that Lee had just got out of a van to allow a couple, who were being threatened by Robertson, to get in. He started walking home along the road when Robertson, of Atlow Drive, Wytenshawe, started shouting at him before running to him, stabbing him multiple times - causing fatal injuries - and running away.
A knife, what the f are you doing with a knife? : Steroid-fuelled thug stabbed beloved dad to death in frenzied street attack
Tony Robertson, 19, has received a life sentence for the murder of 45-year-old Lee Knott
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A steroid fuelled former boxer who became lost during the coronavirus pandemic brutally murdered a much loved dad after a row in the street, a court heard.
Steroid junkie ex-boxer stabbed dad-of-three to death in sick street attack
Dad and window cleaner Lee Knott, 45, selflessly offered a couple his van to drive safely away from a thug arguing with them before he became the target of his aggression
Tony Robertson, 19, has been jailed for murder (Image: MEN Media)
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