Police body cam of student attack released, as killer jailed for life
Digwa was convicted after stabbing Henry Nowak five times, and police said his false account left the victim handcuffed while dying.
- On Monday, Vickrum Digwa was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 21 years at Southampton Crown Court for murdering 18-year-old Henry Nowak.
- Digwa stabbed Nowak on December 3, 2025, with a 21cm kirpan, then told police a 'wicked lie' claiming he was attacked, causing officers to handcuff the dying student.
- Prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg KC described Digwa as having a 'weapons obsession,' while his mother, Kiran Kaur, was found guilty of assisting an offender by hiding the murder weapon.
- Mark Nowak, the victim's father, called his son's treatment 'inhumane and degrading,' urging the Government to treat knife crime as 'the national emergency that it is.'
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, while tech billionaire Elon Musk offered to fund a private prosecution against the police.
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Algemeen Dagblad
ed.nlBritish police are under fire after an 18-year-old student, Henry Nowak, was handcuffed last December while being stabbed and died. The perpetrator lied to the police, claiming the victim had attacked him. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday.
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Killer’s lies led police to arrest stabbing victim
Police have released bodycam footage showing officers arresting 18-year-old Henry Nowak after he was fatally stabbed. His killer, Vickrum Digwa, falsely claimed Nowak had assaulted him and racially abused him, according to the presiding judge. Digwa has been sentenced to life in prison.
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Judge William Mousley of the Southampton Crown Court said that Digwa killed Nowak with a large knife that he kept attached to his belt. Mousley said that Nowak asked the Digwa if he was a "bad man", which led him to feel that he was insulted.
A young white man stabbed mortally by another of Indian origin and Sikh religion, in the port city of Southampton, the usual scene of racial tensions. A 21-inch dagger to perpetrate the crime, the kirpan, which the criminal laws of the United Kingdom contemplate as an exception for the religious symbolism it carries, and allow it to be carried over whenever it remains sheathed. An aggressor who lies, as proved at trial, and who falsely accuses t…
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