Henry Nowak second thread, as requested.

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@rolloverbeethoven thanks for this. So often a thread gets filled up and slowly disappears from the front page to get forgotten. This is far too important to be forgotten about.

And if I could just start off with links to the judge's sentencing remarks and a video of the footage of Henry Nowak's death, so people can be aware of PPs who repeatedly post untruths about what has happened (for god knows what motivation):

Digwa Final Sentencing Remarks

Footage of what happened as Henry lay dying:

(warning: it makes very distressing viewing)

I haven't read much of the last thread. I have questions.
Whose house was it, where Henry was lying in the drive? Had he walked/dragged himself there? Was the brother with the killer when he did the stabbing? It seems the brother was the first to ring anyone. Why did he do that? Why didn't they just run away and leave Henry? Can I read the whole of the court case somewhere, and what witnesses said, in the same way that every day I can read every word from parliamentary debates?
Sorry, I listened to the father's statement yesterday and I have been listening today and heard the Home Secretary's statement but I have missed earlier details.

You can find answers to most of your q's via Google.

As to why they called the police and didn't run off - staying made the lie they were the victims more plausible would be my guess.

The murderer and his family certainly seemed to know exactly what to say to push the polices buttons.

The Mail have published this in the past half hour.

What a horrific, tragic shitshow.

A Sikh killer who murdered a student with a ceremonial knife was reported to police for stealing religious weapons two years earlier, but officers did not arrest him, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Vickrum Digwa, 23, was jailed yesterday for stabbing stranger Henry Nowak, 18, with an eight-inch Sikh dagger he had been carrying in Southampton city centre last December.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15867095/Henry-Nowaks-killer-police-radar-stealing-weapons.html

The Telegraph 20 minutes ago:

Henry Nowak killer’s family members charged with weapons offences
Vickrum Digwa, his brother and father face six counts of possessing an offensive weapon in a private place

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/02/nowaks-killers-family-charged/

Thank you. I know Wiki isn't necessarily correct but when I scrolled further than all the latest headlines I did find it and got a bit more background detail.

A police officer unrelated to the case has been misidentified online and had to go into hiding.
Exactly why people should be careful about sharing X reports.

The Sikh local community said they distanced themselves from him .

I can't understand why he was handcuffed whilst looking so weak on the ground ? And behind his back . One can't imagine his pain

I can't comprehend the man who claims to have been abused is sprightly and bouncing around with apprently a "slightly bruises eye" and the other man is weak and frail on the ground ?

Saying he can't breathe ??
I can't get my head around people standing there talking to the well man saying...you poor thing YOU have been attacked ??

Going with the lie of the killer why dont they ask the killer did you fight back ? Why is he on the ground ?

@FatEndoftheWedge I thought the killer's brother lied and said Henry was drunk.

But even so he's so drunk he's weak and feeble and rolling around on gbr ground ?

absolutely shocking couldn't watch the footage.

Yes, and then when Henry says he's been stabbed, the police officer says 'No, you haven't mate', without having checked him over.

Police training must be really warped for them to react like that, treating the accusation of racism with top priority and the stabbing as less important. The bodycam showed the killer was perfectly fine and on his feet while Henry was slumped on the floor obviously very unwell. Yet they treated Henry as the assailant who needed to be subdued.

At the very least, police training needs a thorough review.

My theory on this is that it was stated and filmed that he chased Henry and stabbed him in the back of his legs when he scrambled over a fence and landed on a car - he was next to a car in a driveway when arrested. I believe they rang their parents who arrived to remove the knife but the commotion alerted neighbours and one woman rang police to say someone had been stabbed. Seeing as they had been seen they probably concocted the racism story, removed turban etc and pretended to be the victims. They would probably have disappeared if they hadn’t been seen. He’d already taken Henry’s phone off him and police found it in his pocket.

Everyone should watch the video. Everyone needs to feel very uncomfortable about this. Enough is enough. Rest in peace Henry 💔

I’ve just read the array of weapons found at the family home. Knives, sword, knuckle duster, extendable baton, flick knives, kusaris (whatever that is). He also had the baton and a machete in his car. Hmm peaceful guy, peaceful family.

@5MinuteArgument regarding what is going on with police training in Hampshire, there is an interesting article today in the Spectator that discusses that:
The treatment of Henry Nowak’s killer was all about race | The Spectator

(I hope this works. When I saved the article to archive.ph, the first paragraph was cut off. That paragraph described what happened in court after the verdict- apparently a "young Asian woman" shouted about racism, and an "elderly man in a turban" called Digwas's lawyer a "fucking bean head".

Thanks for posting the article.

It seems like the culture of the police is no longer about treating every community the same without fear or favour. It's a mentality that has infected all our institutions and is causing a lot of harm and could end up with a massive backlash.

Little piece of scum thought he was gonna avoid jail by playing the victim. So glad they were able to pick apart the facts in this case and serve justice. What an absolute tragedy for that young man's lost life and his family left behind, I don't know where you would begin to process this

You would think it's quite simple to treat everyone equally but there are quite a few communities who regularly get special treatment or the good old blind eye. Heaven forbid we offend anyone by holding them legally accountable

I can’t stop thinking about the evil in this case , and the callousness of the police response to poor Henry. This is unlike me, but I just can’t bear to watch the footage in full. It’s sickening. Henry’s family remarked on the fact that Dingwall was never handcuffed when he was arrested for murder , and was allowed to go to a kitchen and choose his own food without handcuffs. The contrast says it all.

Yes I’ve seen the photos online of the supposed police officer who handcuffed Henry and who said ‘don’t think you have mate’ and the supposed female officer but you never know if its actually the correct officers or not.

Ironic really in the saddest possible way how everyone’s quick to blame photos of people they have no idea actually did that when poor Henry was also incorrectly accused and treated so inhumanly.

People just jump to conclusions so easily when lied to without double checking their facts first.

so you know if someone says they’ve been stabbed bloody well check properly and immediately call for an ambulance. Especially if that’s your job.

and that bloody mother who hid the knives knowing a boy was bleeding to death. Jesus Christ what an absolute shit show of a family they are.

I do think the point made on the other thread about how maybe Digwa was believed because he is sikh. A prison officer on twitter was saying she’s only ever seen 4 sikh inmates, if you are on the sharp end of policing it may be that Digwa didn’t match their notion of an offender or were wary of dealing with anything involving an accusation of racism.

I do think we need to rethink policing, Kemi Badenoch made the point that it’s gone too far the other way. I think she’s right, theres been an overcorrection. Minded of that poor woman paraded infront of people at a mosque to apologise for her son doing something to a koran instead of just arresting everyone who threatened her child. Same thing could be at play here. I’m saying this as an ethnic minority, I do think we are worse off as a society when people aren’t treated equally.

What that means for religious practices, I don’t know, but clearly for everyone regardless of their background we need a unified understanding of laws that govern all of us the same to be a better and more harmonious society.