A MAN who tried to sell photos of a murder victim’s body to a Sunday paper has been sentenced to serve 15 months in a young offenders institution.

Charaf Elmoudden, 20 from Colindale, north London, pleaded guilty last month at Wood Green Crown Court to handling the stolen photographs of the body of Harry Potter actor Rob Knox.

Rob, of Maidstone Road, Sidcup, died in Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, in May 2008, after being stabbed five times outside the Metro Bar in Station Road, Sidcup.

The photographs of the 18-year-old’s body, are believed to have been taken in the morgue before a post mortem examination was carried out.

They were exhibits in the trial of his murderer Karl Bishop who was jailed for 20 years last year and were stolen following the trial.

Elmoudden was caught in a police sting when he tried to sell them to a Sunday People journalist.

He has been recommended for deportation when he is released and has always refused to reveal how he gained possession of the pictures.