‘I’m broken-hearted’: father pays tribute to student, 21, stabbed in Primrose Hill

Finbar Sullivan, who ‘loved movies and making films’, had gone to London park to use new camera, says father A film student who was stabbed to death in London’s Primrose Hill was a “beautiful, lovely, outgoing, loving” man, his father has said. Finbar Sullivan, 21, was stabbed in a fight in the north London park in the early evening on Tuesday and was pronounced dead at the scene. His father, Christopher Sullivan, said his son had gone to the park – a renowned beauty spot in the capital popular with tourists and residents – to use a new camera he had been given for his birthday. “This is the worst tragedy I could ever imagine,” the 65-year-old said. “He’s my only son … I had him when I was 45. He can never be replaced. He’d just bought a new camera, we all chipped in for his 21st birthday, and he took it up there to do a bit of filming.” Sullivan, a musician and founder of the 1980s band Blue Rondo à la Turk, said his son had wanted to become a cameraman like his grandfather Michael Seresin, who worked on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Rambo III. “I’m so broken-hearted, I can’t believe it. He was the most beautiful, lovely, outgoing,

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