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Artist stabbed to death 'for protecting girlfriend'
Benedict Moore-Bridger, Evening Standard10 Jul 2008
Friends of an aspiring artist today told how he was stabbed to death after trying to protect his girlfriend.
Dylan Bates-Fox, 21, was stabbed in the chest as he intervened when his girlfriend was headbutted by an assailant, it was claimed.
The fight is thought to have started over an argument about a taxi fare. As Mr Bates-Fox retaliated, punching the attacker, he was stabbed. He later died in hospital.
Mr Bates-Fox, from Hanwell, west London, had been staying with friends in Bethnal Green where the incident took place. Friends said he had hoped to become a professional artist.
Schoolfriend Nick Carson, 18, who attended Elthorne Park High School with Mr Bates-Fox, said: "I can't believe this happened to Dylan. The majority of people stabbed in London carry knives - Dylan was not a knife person.
"He was a brave man sticking up for his girlfriend. He was a lovely bloke, a very intelligent young man who was an extremely talented artist."
Mr Bates-Fox, whose family are Irish, left school at 16 to study for a BTec in graphic design at Richmond College.
On a social networking website his interests included "music, people, living every day as if its (sic) your last".
Louis Chambers, 18, whose father Stephen Chambers is an acclaimed painter and a member of the Royal Academy, was remanded in custody over the death yesterday.
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I was chilling with dylan a week before this tragedy happened. He was a straight up good human being, another lovely person murdered by an idiot. R I P
- Dar, Molesey London ish, 15/07/2008 12:19
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ID cards would have prevented this tragedy.
(sarcasm)
- Claire, UK, 12/07/2008 10:31
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