Henry Nowak - just watched the video for the first time

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I don’t understand how the officers could not tell he had been stabbed. He repeatedly says he can’t breathe and when he says he has been stabbed, they say, ‘I don’t think so mate.’ When he says it again they ask where and he says his face, they then roll him over so they can look at his face, and the video ends with the officer saying the handcuffed victim was likely going to be sick.

i completely understand the officers went there having been told a lie and you see the perpetrator on the video retelling the lie and claiming he’d been a victim of a racist assault, i just can’t understand how the officers didn’t recognise the guy on the floor was dying.

So we trust some people to carry knives for no other reason than they belong to an approved cultural demographic?

They should have checked to see if the young man saying he had been stabbed and was short of breath multiple times was telling the truth . But no they just handcuffed him.
inexcusable

But he was accused of using a racial slur. And the police believed his murderer without question. The police operated under the assumption that Henry was a racist and let him bleed out.

"I've been stabbed."

"I don't think you have, mate."

Why on earth would one religion be allowed to carry a knife in case they need to use it in self defence!

That’s what young lads say when they are found illegally carrying knives. They have it in case of self defence.

I really hope this useless Labour government move quickly. No knife carrying. THE END.

Sadly I think they are more concerned with thinking up new ways of taxing working people to pay benefits

I won’t be watching it. My husband, who I have seen cry twice in 22 years, sat at the kitchen table and cried as he told me about it. WTAF has our country become when people are thrown in jail for tweets and facebook posts and a stabbed and dying young man gets handcuffed because someone says he’s been racially insulted. How can this really be where we are at!?

Police: are you carrying any weapons?
perp: yes
police: what religion are you?

Why on earth would one religion be allowed to carry a knife in case they need to use it in self defence!

I think you already know the answer to this question.

We do that anyway.

Why dont you read about it and find out?

This is what ‘Stand up to Racism’ and their ilk wanted. A country where race is absolute king (well - not white), where it is absolutely beyond reproach and defeats any other issue. Where a murdered boy’s vigil is picketed because he was murdered by a person who wasn’t white and somehow, somehow, his murder offends them.

They’re raving lunatics and I hold them fully responsible for whatever maniacs get in in 2028.

It was the conservative government who reiterated the rights of Sikhs to carry knives when the last knife act was done. Why are you blaming the labour government and not the conservatives as well?

Of course I have. I have also seen plenty referring to a 'tall black male' or of a 'short man of middle eastern appearance' or sometimes a combination of any two or more of those. If they have an actual description they will use it, whatever it is.

Do you understand that the killer lied about their altercation?

Do you understand that even if the police KNEW he was a vile racist, it isnt their place to decide whether or not he deserves medical attention?

Henry wasnt stabbed by that man because he was racist and the police have been led to believe they can be the arbiters of who gets help based on their perception of the character of the person in need.

It isn't as simple as saying nobody should have a knife. If I have no knife, I can just as easily stab someone with a screwdriver or a chisel or a sharp stick instead.

Go on

It is that simple, it is in fact the law.

Any of those items can be considered illegal as offensive weapons in the right circumstances.

And you’d be arrested for carrying them around with you in public!

The point is, if you have two boys carrying the exact same knife and only one would be prosecuted because of his cultural background, that is a problem!

I cannot stop thinking about the video. It’s utterly heartbreaking. That poor, poor young man must have been beyond terrified. I can’t begin to imagine what Henry’s family are going through. It’s truly sickening on every level and one of the saddest things I’ve seen.

That's a very difficult question.

From what bit I know about first aid and injuries I know that knife wounds are notoriously hard to deal with. They have a very small opening and can be very deep.
Also it is not always possible to know at what angle the blade entered.
If someone bleeds internally into the chest or abdominal cavity then very little blood may be visible externally.

Having said all that i would question why the police officers didn't undo his jacket to see if there were any injuries?

I’ve just seen the whole video (on LinkedIn) and it is shocking. That poor boy and his family having to watch such vile people (police included) stand and do nothing as their son asked for help and got none. Shame on them and I hope they throw the book at his mother when she is sentenced. RIP Henry.

You are 100% right: the injustice that has taken place is so utterly disgusting and sickening. The poor dying young man wasn't treated with any compassion whatsoever. The lousy, rotten,biased police should have examined Henry and realised that he was dying. That vile scumbag who killed him should rot in prison, regardless of his religion. Hope he gets what he deserves - but sadly I doubt that he will.
Sending deep sympathy to poor Henry's family and friends.

I think on balance, it's much easier to protect the feelings of inadequate men (either the scum that stabbed this young man or the scum that threaten women) than it is to protect public safety.

A police officer named on social media was the wrong one and has had to go into hiding with his family. This is such a mess.

Sentencing remarks are pretty damning

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Digwa-Final-Sentencing-Remarks.pdf

I believe they were punishing him because they had been told he was a racist.