Dear Henry: Our Fight For Justice ITV

[PurplePinata]

Hi, did anyone watch this documentary Thursday on ITV about Henry Nowak? I found it absolutely heartbreaking. What a lovely young man he was and so sweet as a child. His poor family, you could feel their pain.

It was a very distressing watch .

The police are so corrupt

It was one of the most heartbreaking things I have ever watched. What in the name of Jesus christ did the police think they were doing? Asking his mother what his political beliefs were? Christ on a fucking bike!!!!
Henry's family have conducted themselves with dignity despite the way their son was portrayed as a racist thug. The Chief constable should be sacked and these so called police officers should be prosecuted and put before a court 😡😡

Agree @Dollymylove - even knowing their son had been murdered, the police somehow thought it was appropriate to ask the bereaved family about their political beliefs. It is shameful and shocking

I absolutely agree. Henry was treated despicablly by those 2 police officers who were supposed to protect him. Henry was lying on the ground saying repeatedly that he'd been stabbed and couldn't breathe. Instead of treating it as an absolute emergency and administering first aid immediately, they were more concerned about whether the man standing up - Vikram Digwa - was injured.

There's a point in the video where Digwa says to the Police 'he hasn't been stabbed' and the female police officer says 'but we still need to examine him though' in apologetic way that sounds like she's asking for his permission to examine him!. The deference shown towards Digwa and his family, contrasted with the contempt and complete lack of urgency shown towards Henry, is sickening.

As if Henry's poor family aren't suffering enough at the hands of his murderer, they also have to live with the knowledge that, in his final moments, when he must surely have believed that the arrival of the police meant help was finally at hand, the very people who should have been protecting him failed to show him even the most basic compassion and urgency.

I cannot begin to imagine the anguish that must cause his family.

It was so sad. His poor family. I couldn’t believe that policeman saying “I don’t think you have mate” when anyone could see he was in a bad way.

I recorded but I am not sure I can bear to watch it.

I have watched the programme in full now. There are so many unanswered questions about why the police treated Henry as they did. It is also very clear there was an attempted cover up and they hoped that shocking footage would never have to be released.

the dignity and restraint of Henry’s family is absolutely remarkable.

personally I think carrying the kirpan should now be banned. There should be no exemptions on the ban on carrying weapons. The argument of the Sikh scholar that the knife used was not technically a kirpan spectacularly misses the point.