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Henry Nowak

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rolloverbeethoven · 30/05/2026 15:18

Heard of him? Probably not, because there seems to be an almost complete news blackout about him. Basically the police handcuffed him and let him bleed out because they thought he may have said something racist - he didn't, it was a lie told by his murderer. Henry was 18.

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JuliaBraverman · 30/05/2026 16:55

TooBigForMyBoots · 30/05/2026 16:43

They copied that from Martin Daubney. And it was a stupid thing to say when he said it.

There are no parallels between George Floyd and Henry Nowak, other than are men who were killed on the street.

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Why are there no parallels?

JuliaBraverman · 30/05/2026 16:56

Do only the so-called oppressed deserve protection in our country?

smallglassbottle · 30/05/2026 16:58

Everyone needs to be treated equally, regardless of colour, sex, age, whatever. If someone is injured they need treatment. It's not up to the police to be judge, jury and allowing someone's death because of 'he said, she said'.

Equality. Not allowing a victim to die because of their individual personal characteristics. Two tier policing? We'll have to see where these things lead eh?

5MinuteArgument · 30/05/2026 17:02

The police need to review their procedures and make sure they carry out their duties without fear or favour. That's the first law of policing. These police officers failed on both those counts.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 30/05/2026 17:05

TooBigForMyBoots · 30/05/2026 16:43

They copied that from Martin Daubney. And it was a stupid thing to say when he said it.

There are no parallels between George Floyd and Henry Nowak, other than are men who were killed on the street.

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What about the fairly key point that they both died in police custody with the police ignoring their pleas for help?
Most people who die on the street do so without the police being anywhere near, or with the police trying to help them or calling for help.

Glitchymn1 · 30/05/2026 17:05

TooBigForMyBoots · 30/05/2026 15:52

Yes I know who he is and what happened to him.Sad

It's been on the news all week @rolloverbeethoven.Confused

When did it happen?

FrizzyFrizbee · 30/05/2026 17:06

AndyBurnhamForPM · 30/05/2026 16:16

It was a terrible case and the police made some awful mistakes.

BUT we don't know whether he did or didn't racially abuse the killer.

We just know there was no evidence that he did - I understand the police were sufficiently concerned that he was racist that they looked through his phone for any evidence of racism.

If he had been racist then there could be a case of self defence.

But we will never know the truth.

None of this excuses the police for appalling incompetence.

Utterly ridiculous. Digwa also denied stabbing Novak in the first place.

You say: “BUT we don't know whether he did or didn't racially abuse the killer.”

😡😡😡😡🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Wow! Just WOW!

Have you ANY idea how thoroughly warped, disgusting, disingenuous and dishonest your post comes across, when a lad has been brutally stabbed multiple times, to his tragic death by a man who ‘just happened’ to be carrying a 21 inch blade?

I could go on. I suggest you go and have several strong words with yourself, and maybe you should be reported to Prevent with attitudes like yours.

news.sky.com/story/man-found-guilty-of-stabbing-university-student-henry-nowak-to-death-with-ceremonial-knife-13548726

TooBigForMyBoots · 30/05/2026 17:07

JuliaBraverman · 30/05/2026 16:53

The governments lack of response is shocking.

The Minister for Crime and Policing made a statement and the police watchdog is investigating.

FrizzyFrizbee · 30/05/2026 17:07

5MinuteArgument · 30/05/2026 17:02

The police need to review their procedures and make sure they carry out their duties without fear or favour. That's the first law of policing. These police officers failed on both those counts.

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Twisterlollies · 30/05/2026 17:08

rolloverbeethoven · 30/05/2026 15:18

Heard of him? Probably not, because there seems to be an almost complete news blackout about him. Basically the police handcuffed him and let him bleed out because they thought he may have said something racist - he didn't, it was a lie told by his murderer. Henry was 18.

I don’t think there has been a news blackout but like you I am viscerally enraged by his death. Bleeding to death and they handcuff him because he apparently made racist remarks?! I’m staggered.

His family must be absolutely devastated.

Hameth · 30/05/2026 17:08

JuliaBraverman · 30/05/2026 15:43

I think maybe the OP expected more outrage in the news over this killing …

Telegraph headlining it. Jenrick written an op-ed, big in Mail and Express.
Plus the woke media ie guardian.co.uk and bbc etc.
So plenty of coverage for what appears to be appalling tragedy. Hope murderer gets many many years and the Sikh community is discuss ling how to go forward with these particular knives

Twisterlollies · 30/05/2026 17:09

JuliaBraverman · 30/05/2026 16:26

If a victim is lying in a pool of blood, Whether racist words have been used, Is surely not the priority at that moment in time

To some on here it seems like it would be.

Jamesblonde2 · 30/05/2026 17:09

Bleed out?

TooBigForMyBoots · 30/05/2026 17:09

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 30/05/2026 17:05

What about the fairly key point that they both died in police custody with the police ignoring their pleas for help?
Most people who die on the street do so without the police being anywhere near, or with the police trying to help them or calling for help.

The police killed GF.
The police in this case were not the killers.

EasternStandard · 30/05/2026 17:10

Absolutely horrendous. This was more on IG for a while (and probably X) but seems to be in the news more now.

Marmalademorning · 30/05/2026 17:10

The only place I heard about it are 1.Daily Mail 2. Tik Toc 3. YouTube

JuliaBraverman · 30/05/2026 17:15

Twisterlollies · 30/05/2026 17:09

To some on here it seems like it would be.

Shocking and disturbing

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 30/05/2026 17:22

AndyBurnhamForPM · 30/05/2026 16:16

It was a terrible case and the police made some awful mistakes.

BUT we don't know whether he did or didn't racially abuse the killer.

We just know there was no evidence that he did - I understand the police were sufficiently concerned that he was racist that they looked through his phone for any evidence of racism.

If he had been racist then there could be a case of self defence.

But we will never know the truth.

None of this excuses the police for appalling incompetence.

Self defence must be proportional.

The jury found him guilty, so they thought it wasn’t self-defence.

Twisterlollies · 30/05/2026 17:24

JuliaBraverman · 30/05/2026 17:15

Shocking and disturbing

Yep. Reminds me of the murder of Ross Parker in 2001. He didn’t get much attention despite a cluster of other racist murders also happening around that time.

Northermcharn · 30/05/2026 17:25

TooBigForMyBoots · 30/05/2026 16:43

They copied that from Martin Daubney. And it was a stupid thing to say when he said it.

There are no parallels between George Floyd and Henry Nowak, other than are men who were killed on the street.

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There are very clear parallels. Only a person who agrees with 2 tier policing could say there were not.

The student was on his way home when Digwa stabbed him many times with a religious blade. Digwa had a stash of such blades at his house. Digwa filmed his victim as he tried to escape. When officers arrived they arrested Nowak as Digwa told them he'd said racist things to him (he had not). Nowak was then handcuffed and he died as they were arresting - handcuffing - him. Despite him telling them he couldn't breath and he was dying.

Imagine if this had been a white man stabbing a black man, and the police cuffed and arrested the black man, and then the black man died.

I wonder if we will have mass riots and world-wide attention on Harry Nowak. White man on way home from uni, arrested and died after being stabbed by a brown man falsely accusing him of being racist.

FrizzyFrizbee · 30/05/2026 17:26

TooBigForMyBoots · 30/05/2026 17:09

The police killed GF.
The police in this case were not the killers.

An interesting comment from a black female journalist, regarding the treatment of GF vs Henry Novak:

”Some of their victims might still be alive had an obsession with anti-racism not been drilled so successfully into everyone from teenage security guards to health workers and council officials: an imperative not merely to be non-racist, that is, but to suspend reason in the name of anti-racism, no matter the cost.

This movement, however well-intentioned, now has too much blood on its hands. As a phenomenon, of course, it was supercharged in 2020, when George Floyd – a convicted felon and drug addict suffering from heart disease – died, having ingested the ultra-powerful opioid fentanyl, while being restrained during his arrest in Minnesota. In the middle of the Covid pandemic, when half the world was locked indoors staring at social media (with all its tendency for outrage and fury), Floyd's death galvanised the Black Lives Matter movement.
'I can't breathe' – his last words – became a rallying cry, as tens of millions of people, according to a study by America's Harvard Kennedy School, took to the streets protesting against 'systemic racism', including riots and looting in some places. Politicians almost literally fell over themselves to 'take the knee' in a self-abasing sign that they, too, opposed racism – including then leader of the opposition Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner. 'I can't breathe' were Henry Nowak's last words, too, but there will be fewer marches in his name; while of his death, our current Prime Minister and the usually loquacious Rayner have said precisely nothing.”

https://britbrief.co.uk/politics/scandals/henry-nowaks-death-exposes-anti-racism-dangers.html

Tragedy of Henry Nowak: How anti-racism obsession led to a dying man being handcuffed

A Sikh man murdered a student, then falsely claimed racism to get the dying victim handcuffed. This case reveals how anti-racism dogma can pervert justice.

https://britbrief.co.uk/politics/scandals/henry-nowaks-death-exposes-anti-racism-dangers.html

Northermcharn · 30/05/2026 17:27

TooBigForMyBoots · 30/05/2026 17:09

The police killed GF.
The police in this case were not the killers.

They may have been man slaughterers. If they'd tried to save him rather than arrest him, he may have lived. We will never know.

EasternStandard · 30/05/2026 17:28

Glitchymn1 · 30/05/2026 17:05

When did it happen?

Plus re the pp it’s been on SM for longer than a week.

Twisterlollies · 30/05/2026 17:29

Northermcharn · 30/05/2026 17:27

They may have been man slaughterers. If they'd tried to save him rather than arrest him, he may have lived. We will never know.

Edited

No, it wouldn’t be manslaughter - he was murdered. You can’t convict one party of murder and another of manslaughter because they didn’t provide or access medical care, because responsibility can’t be shared in that way.

Northermcharn · 30/05/2026 17:33

Twisterlollies · 30/05/2026 17:29

No, it wouldn’t be manslaughter - he was murdered. You can’t convict one party of murder and another of manslaughter because they didn’t provide or access medical care, because responsibility can’t be shared in that way.

Poor bloke stabbed more than 15 times then not helped and arrested instead. Then died. Stabber the murderer - then what are the police - assistance to murder? Who knows.

I guess it could come down to an autopsy - could he have lived if they'd tried to save his life following the stabbing?

Either way - it stinks.

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