ACTOR Ray Winstone has revealed his nephew was left “close to death” after being stabbed.
The film tough guy, 67, said doctors saved the young man’s life.
Ray — star of Sexy Beast and Nil By Mouth — told of the ordeal at the London launch of a director’s cut of a documentary called (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story.
It tells of Harry Potter actor Rob — murdered at 18 trying to protect his brother from a knifeman.
Ray said: “I don’t know how many families in the country it’s touched, but it’s touched my family.
“I had a nephew who was attacked, stabbed, was very close to death and was saved by the London Hospital.”
He added: “I don’t remember this being a problem when I was a kid, where has it come from?”
Anti-knife crime campaigner Ray is also backing calls for the documentary to be shown in schools.
He added: “If it changes one person’s mind in one school, it’s done its job.
“And that’s why it’s more important really than going to a screening here, it’s got to be to the new generation, the kids that are coming through.”
