r/ukpolitics • u/MysteryWra • 11h ago
Man jailed 21 years for murdering student then tricking police into arresting victim
https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/01/henry-nowaks-killer-jailed-life-stabbing-student-claiming-self-defence-28605906/•
u/myzuk77 10h ago
Yikes
"Mark Nowak, Henry's father, is joined by his daughter and Lucy Ross, Henry's mother.
They say no verdict or sentence will ever bring Henry back into their lives.
Turning to the night of the murder, Mark says his son told police that he could not breathe nine times and that he'd been stabbed four times, only to be met with disbelief from one officer.
"Instead of being treated as a dying victim, police formally arrested Henry for assault and read him his rights. That was the last thing he heard," Mark says.
He adds: "Let us be clear. We hold Vickrum Digwa solely responsible for the brutal murder of our son.
"But Henry should not have died on the streets of Southampton in police custody. The way he was was inhumane and degrading.
"His murderer, however, was afforded decency. He was believed. He was not handcuffed.... the contrast is unbearable."
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u/myzuk77 10h ago
Further yikes
"His murderer, however, was afforded decency. He was believed. He was not handcuffed when arrested. He was not handcuffed when transported to the police station.
“As far as we understand, he was never handcuffed at all.
“And, as Vickrum Digwa himself told the court, while under arrest for Henry’s murder, police even took him to the kitchen so he could choose his food. The contrast is unbearable.”
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u/Golden37 9h ago
HE WAS NEVER HANDCUFFED?!?!
WTF, it is one thing to intially believe the perpetrator after being lied to but after the victim falls unconscious and shortly after dies, I simply can't comprehend the officers not processing in their brains the escalation of the situation.
This just makes me angry.
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u/Thandoscovia 8h ago edited 8h ago
Why would he have been? He was a victim of racism, remember - the worst crime of all
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u/Powerful_Set_2350 8h ago
Process that the murderer phoned 999 claimed he was attacked and then stayed at the scene?
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u/TurboUnionist1689 7h ago edited 7h ago
The issue here is more in claiming a racist attack first you will railroad the police into treating you different even after apprenlty, if the reporting is correct and he died at the scene, there is a body.
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u/Powerful_Set_2350 7h ago
They turn up to the allegedly drunk suspect of an unprovoked attacked lying on the floor.
How is the racial element going to change the actions of the police?
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u/TurboUnionist1689 7h ago
Well since the macpherson report the issue might be they have to treat any accusation of racism as priority to the determiment of all other police functions? Even after if the allegation from the father is correct, post their being a body and a murder charge.
If this is a way to get the police to put kid golves on. You can see how are are a bit jammed up here, no?
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u/TeenieTinyBrain 10h ago edited 6h ago
It gets much worse than that, sadly.
I highly recommend you listen to the statement made by Henry Nowak's father, Mark Nowak, after sentencing -- see here.
The section recounting his final moments:
When police arrived, Henry was lying on the floor, barely able to sit up and plainly in severe medical distress.
With his final words he told officers that he could not breathe, he told them he had been stabbed. In fact, Henry told officers he could not breathe nine times, he told them he had been stabbed four times.
The response from one officer was "I don't think you have, mate."
The police have said they were misled by the murderer and that the scene when they arrived was complex. Unfortunately, it seems to us the truth is much simpler.
The police were told by our son himself and by a member of the public who called 999 that they heard someone shout that they had been stabbed. But the police did not believe them.
Henry was pulled across the gravel, his hands forced behind his back and he was placed in handcuffs. Instead of being treated as a dying victim, [the] police formally arrested Henry for assault and read him his rights.
That was the last thing he heard.
Henry did not die with dignity. He did not die with the care he deserved. He lost consciousness before anyone believed him.
The section contrasting the treatment of Henry, the victim, with that of the murderer is dumbfounding, especially with the added knowledge that at least one of the officers is not required to give evidence nor to explain why they treated Henry with such little care compared to the murderer:
Let me be absolutely clear, we hold Vickrum Digwa solely and one hundred per cent responsible for the brutal murder of our son but Henry should should not have died on the streets of Southampton in police custody. The way he was treated was inhumane and degrading.
His murderer, however, was afforded decency. He was believed. He was not handcuffed when arrested. He was not handcuffed when transported to the police station. As far as we understand, he was never handcuffed at all. And, as Vickrum Digwa himself told the court, whilst under arrest for Henry's murder, police even took him to the kitchen so he could choose his food. The contrast is unbearable.
We believe the officers involved remain on duty, although we understand some may have since resigned. One was allowed to leave the force before she had given an account to the Independent Office for Police Conduct of what happened that evening.
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u/EleosSkywalker 10h ago
Being allowed to resign in those cases is a bloody disgrace, oh you done an oopsie? It’s alright you can resign and then we won’t have to investigate your conduct nor our own.
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u/Force-Grand-2 10h ago
It's a problem with policing in general. In NI we had a case of horrific abuse against a young girl-then-woman who eventually died by suicide. Inquest found major failings by police including a culture of misogyny and just not doing basic investigative work.
All of the officers under investigation retired during that process and faced no further consequences, despite findings that they had multiple opportunities to save that girl's life that they simply chose not to take.
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u/samuel199228 7h ago
They belong behind fucking bars disgusting they been allowed to get away with what they did no wonder people don't trust the police and justice system in this country
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u/LeedsFan2442 3h ago
It shouldn't stop the investigation but I don't see how you can stop people resigning
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u/Lifeintheguo 7h ago
Really blows the "Police couldn't see his injuries! It was dark!" out the water.
Nowak was lying on the floor dying when police arrived and told them he was dying 9 times. Police ignored him right up to the last moment before finally giving first aid.
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u/UKSpad 9h ago
The BBC thread has cut the first half of the statement out of their reporting.
Why do you think they would do that, and not pulbish the whole text.
Its damning reading.
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u/Magneto88 9h ago
In their headline bullet points on the article after sending out a push notification about the result, there was no mention that the police had handcuffed him on suspicion of being racist. Stuck out like a sore thumb.
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u/NoticingThing 7h ago
Why do you think they would do that, and not pulbish the whole text.
They've got to at least pretend that there isn't two tier policing, they're government funded after all.
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u/PipeSmart9407 7h ago
But that doesn't make sense, I was assured by police defenders that it was standard procedure to handcuff everybody immediately to sort out the situation, they wouldn't have just made up nonsense on the internet would they?
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u/fairlife42g 8h ago
The police should be sued. I don't know law but there must be failure of duty here.
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u/Sir_Keef_Starmer 6h ago
Ah but to be fair to the police he had fatal wounds so he would have died anyway.
The attitude of the police is honestly sickening.
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u/MysteryWra 10h ago
It's likely even worse than this :
if the bodycam in any way exonerated the police, they would have released it like they released the footage at Manchester Airport.
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u/baldy-84 10h ago
That footage is never being seen. Absolutely everything indicates that it is both incendiary and incredibly incriminating for those officers who obviously failed in their professional duty to an almost comical degree.
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u/Boring_Gas1397 10h ago
Family will sue the police hopefully.
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u/aapowers 9h ago
Good chance that statement was prepared by his solicitors for precisely that reason - ammunition for further legal proceedings and to put pressure on the police.
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u/OriginUnknown82 10h ago
they would have released it like they released the footage at Manchester Airport.
iirc that footage was leaked wasn't it? last part was shown before hand? (Did I imagine it?)
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u/glownut 9h ago
If I remember, some footage was leaked that made the police look bad so they released their own footage to quash that speculation. Can't see that happening here.
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u/Redcoat_Officer 9h ago
It was the other way round, if I remember right. The initial cropped video was out in public from the start, then someone (who probably dresses in black and white at work) leaked the extended CCTV footage to the Manchester Evening News.
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u/TurboUnionist1689 8h ago
Issue is the footage being public or not should not be contigent on other people with phone cameras in the general public happening to be kicking about near by.
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u/Redcoat_Officer 8h ago
It's a problem, and if someone from the Police leaked the CCTV footage that ultimately calmed everything down then that's a problem too because if it was worth doing (and it was) then it should have been done officially. I do think there's a lot to be said for the method you see in America where they just release the bodycam footage immediately.
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u/TurboUnionist1689 8h ago
This is the problem, it just reeks of partiality.
And whats the problem, prejudicing the IOPC panel?
Someone whos not an idiot needs to grab this by the horns and release the footage.
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u/signpostlake 10h ago
The officers involved must explain their reasoning. The attacker being loud and falsely claiming he was the victim isn't a good enough excuse for missing so much and ignoring Henry's repeated pleas for help.
I hope the posters who've been making excuses, attempting to downplay the facts from the court coverage or outright lie about what happened to this poor lad are proud of themselves.
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u/SneakyFire23 9h ago
Because given the information we have here, we can guess pretty easily.
These officers rolled up, didn't see the stab wounds immediately, saw he'd been roughed up and thought "oh well, he got his ass kicked for being a racist, haha"
Then realized the monumental scope of their fuck up as he died begging for help, and then did the bare minimum to not be prosecuted. Like his father said, he wasn't afforded the dignity of a peaceful death, but his murderer was allowed to pack a box lunch from home.
The police are covering up the names of the officers involved and hiding the footage because they know it'll be a powderkeg moment.
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u/signpostlake 9h ago
I agree this was the most likely reason they missed his injuries. Lots of posters unhappy it could be true but none have managed to provide a realistic alternative.
Wonder how many times Henry had to interrupt them while they were reading him his rights to tell them he'd been stabbed and couldn't breathe.
Despite attempts, the outrage isn't going to go away. People will be watching closely for the outcome of the investigation.
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u/FatYorkshireLad Advocatus Diaboli 7h ago
He told them four times that he'd been stabbed and nine times that he couldn't breathe (according to his Father's statement).
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u/signpostlake 7h ago
Saw a clip earlier. It's an absolute disgrace the way this lad was treated by the people who should have helped him.
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u/PolishcockneyYT 8h ago
Potentially cause riots I'm afraid.
We are a sinking ship in terms of racism, the minorities are now creating rules.
RIP to Henry Nowak.
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u/NoticingThing 7h ago
If he was black or muslim we'd have had riots the night the story broke.
The native population have an unbelievable tolerance for abuse before they act, it's why after decades of British children being raped by foreigners it took a massacre like Southport to get them to act.
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u/Regular_Print_7650 6h ago
They've all been saying that its standard police procedure to handcuff both parties. Now that's been debunked they'll just immediately pivot and start with another excuse.
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u/signpostlake 6h ago
Probably. Maybe back to the 'it was too dark'
Despite torches being part of standard issue police uniforms but you know.
I saw one poster try and deny there was any blood trail because Henry had internal bleeding? When it was pointed out the blood trail was documented as part of the crime scene, they said it must have been discovered the next morning. No it was documented on the night of the crime. No response.
I wish the people who feel so desperate to deny and distract took a second to ask themselves why they feel that way despite the facts.
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u/ac0rn5 10h ago
The officers involved must explain their reasoning.
Is it wrong to wonder about the ethnicity of those officers?
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u/ghybyty 10h ago
No but it would absolutely not shock me if they were all white British. They were likely taught the same oppressed/ oppression hierarchy belief system that runs through do much of our institutions
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u/PolishcockneyYT 8h ago
The guilt trip runs across all institutions.
We are all racists and must now elevate everyone else because we are somehow racist.
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u/Scratch_Careful 9h ago
A verbal altercation between the family friends of the victims and the killer broke out in the gallery with people shouting ‘stop’ after the verdict was read out.
Apparently some of the murderers family turned up to call the judge racist too.
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u/Affectionate-Dig226 9h ago
I'm voting for whoever promises to deport these people, they hate the people who let them in.
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u/questions4all-2022 8h ago
So restore Britan then.
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u/samuel199228 7h ago
Is that a good idea seems they are like reform especially when this woman blames immigrants for traffic
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u/questions4all-2022 6h ago
He didn't ask if it's a good idea.
He asked who promised to deport.
Restore has been very very vocal about it. Rupert Lowe has already said he would to Digwas whole family as they attempted to hide the crime/confuse the situation.
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u/tmr89 9h ago
Even if it’s reform?
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u/CountLippe 8h ago
It's SDP, Reform, Restore as those with the kind of policy that might lead to it.
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u/NoticingThing 7h ago
You sweet child, Reform won't deport these kinds of people. They're the controlled opposition, Restore are the only party brave enough to actually deport these monsters.
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u/mildlyconcerninglit 9h ago edited 3h ago
WTF!
The police officers handcuffed him whilst he was lying on the floor and bleeding from the mouth. Then they laughed and him dragged him across the floor.
And he told them 9 times he’d been stabbed!
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All three officers have now apparently resigned to avoid disciplinary procedures.
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I’ve just watched the body cam footage, and it’s fucking horrific.
Makes me sick to think my taxes are funding the pension pots of these animals.
And to think they actually believe they have the support of the “silent majority”. Delusional fuckwits.
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u/DarthEros 8h ago
Disciplinary proceedings can still take place after a police officer has resigned, and I can imagine absolutely will in this scenario.
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u/Lifeintheguo 7h ago
Have you seen the picture of the knife Digwa used?
It's a full on dagger. Digwa carried it fully open in a sheath on his person, he even carried it around the office at work.
Even though it was illegal to carry the knife NO ONE ever challenged him. Not a single person at work or out in public questioned it.
It did not fall under kirpan rules, it was illegal to carry.
What does this say about British society?
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u/kriptonicx He who does not work shall not eat 4h ago
What does this say about British society?
Dunno, but I know I had to provide ID to buy a pizza cutter earlier.
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u/ghybyty 9h ago
Henry's dads statement
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u/Affectionate-Dig226 9h ago
So heart breaking, and rage stirring. Those police officers who immediately jumped to conclusions and believed a man because he's brown and his victim is White.. They are FILTH along with the murderers family who lied for him. After his mothers prison sentence is up she should be swiftly deported home.
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u/Fenota 9h ago
his son told police that he could not breathe nine times
Nine times.
Hm.
It's somewhat hazy behind the boiling anger, but I can see why the footage is being suppressed.
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u/MysteryWra 9h ago
I can see why the footage is being suppressed.
The footage is likely FAR WORSE than we've heard.
If it helped the police in any way they would have released it almost immediately (like they did with the manchester airport attack)
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u/SneakyFire23 9h ago
Because given the information we have here, we can guess pretty easily what the footage is going to show, and this is why they'll never show it.
These officers rolled up, didn't see the stab wounds or the blood immediately, saw he'd been roughed up a bit, and thought "oh well, he got his ass kicked for being a racist, haha" likely were rude to him as he begged for help.
Then realized the monumental scope of their fuck up as he died, and then did the bare minimum to not be prosecuted.
Like his father said, he wasn't afforded the dignity of a peaceful death, but his murderer was allowed to pack a box lunch from home. There's no other rational explanation, you can go on and on about "it was confusing" bullshit. It doesn't take that long to see that a man's dying in front of you.
The police are covering up the names of the officers involved and hiding the footage because they know it'll be a powderkeg moment, I'm sure at least one officer said something derisive to him as he died.
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u/CanadianMultigun 7h ago
Isn´t it great being in a country where mobs pull down statues and politicians bend the knee when someone dies in police custody in America but information that would incite protests against the mistreatment of british people by the british police is suppressed while a mean tweet gets you arrested? Putting the Great in Britain lol
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u/meamarie 8h ago
Yup. They know releasing body cam footage was what set off riots in the states when people are murdered by police.
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u/Whoknowsknows1962 8h ago
Imagine if he was a minority rather than white lad… There would protests on the streets everywhere.
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u/ConsiderationThen652 10h ago
“Tricking police into arresting Victim”
- He went “He was Racist towards me”
Police instantly believed him and arrested the man who said he had been stabbed. The police mocked the guy who has been stabbed, then when he collapsed and they realised he had actually been stabbed multiple times… still didn’t arrest the perpetrator (Digwa), even taking him to the station without handcuffs.
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u/Verbal_v2 9h ago
Said he couldn't breathe 9 times, and that he'd been stabbed 4 times. I fail to see how a knife wound to the head wouldn't have been obviously bleeding as well.
We'll never see the bodycam footage.
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u/DrNuclearSlav Ethnic minority 9h ago
This wasn't the work of a highly skilled and incredibly persuasive conman, all it took was for him to say the R word once and the police bent over backwards to accommodate him.
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u/TurboUnionist1689 8h ago
The first police force in the world can no longer secure or investigate a crime scene. And WILL be railroaded by the first thing they were told.
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u/Redditisfuckincrap 8h ago
It's the current climate you see. Play the R card and the police have to bend over backwards.
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u/junction_18 9h ago
The glib mockery of "I don't think you have (been stabbed), mate"
In my experience the people who join the police are the sorts of people who want some social status and a salary but are too thick to be teachers. No public servant should be allowed to address a member of the public as "mate" by the way.
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u/xcom_lord 8h ago
I agree with this with the exception of the community officer people ,can’t remember the official name but it helps reinforce their non punitive nature imo
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u/ThrowAwayAccountLul1 Divine Right of Kings 👑 9h ago
Let's be honest, if this was the other way around the appallingly police response would have provoked riots, public inquiries, parliamentary time.
Instead, 'lessons will be learned' and everyone will move on with their lives.
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u/SneakyFire23 8h ago
That's what they're hoping for, everyone mutters away about lessons learned and "shame about that poor boy" and doesn't ask any further questions.
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u/MysteryWra 9h ago
Starmer and Angela Raynor would have released a photo kneeling in support/encouragement
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u/Shyjack 10h ago
Only 21 years is an absolute joke. I thought starting point for knife murder was 25 and it seems like this case should be way higher than that.
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u/Obvious_Yard_1846 8h ago
Nah, this is a proper sentence. This is 21 years before consideration for release. Not 25 and out in 12.
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u/Kaladin1983 10h ago
Modern Britain where being a potential racist seems to being a far worst offence than potential murderer. Bet the police officers will get hardly any disciplinary for this stupidity, but if it was a legit racism they would be suspended. Welcome to 2026 in the UK.
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u/tmr89 9h ago
The police officers already resigned, apparently, so they won’t face disciplinary action
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u/SneakyFire23 8h ago
One did, but for misconduct like this they can recall them to service to charge them. They did it with the Met officers during the whole undercover pregnancy scandal.
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u/CHenley84 Defund Ofcom 9h ago
And now the full story is out, any 77th brigade shills want to add their two pence? How Henry told the cops he was stabbed four times and they didn't believe him? How they didn't follow protocol to "handcuff everyone at the scene" and only handcuffed the dying boy and let his murderer come in with full comfort? Two tier policing at its finest.
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u/MysteryWra 9h ago
'don't look back in anger'
'the police are going to release zero information, but will arrest anyone who speculates without a license'
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u/Protostarboy 10h ago
Ban the Kirpan and put the officers on trial
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u/Soft-Entertainer-200 9h ago
An armed society is a polite society. Don’t ban it, allow everyone to have it. The law doesn’t give Sikhs an exemption anyway, it gives them a potential defence. This is not an exemption.
But people saying ban all knives, how am I meant to cut food with? The law already criminalises carrying a knife including the kirpan. Banning it means nothing.
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u/kill-the-maFIA 9h ago edited 9h ago
This crime wasn't carried out with a Kirpan (or at least that's what commentary here has stated?)
That being said, I don't think we should have a religious exemption in our knife law to begin with. Freedom of religion should be about believing what you want, not doing what you want.
E: am I seriously being downvoted for not wanting religious exemptions to laws? Fuck that shit. You shouldn't get special treatment under the law just because you worship some imaginary being. Get a grip.
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u/Redcoat_Officer 9h ago
Depends on the outlet. The BBC have called it a Kirpan in a lot of the reporting I've seen. He was apparently wearing a second, smaller one around his neck that made the larger one illegal, but it seems that if he hadn't been wearing that one then the larger knife would have counted. Their faith requires them to carry one knife, so the law allows them to carry one knife only.
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u/Spursfan14 7h ago
It was a Kirpan, he had 2 and used the larger one, but it was a Kirpan.
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u/Protostarboy 8h ago
I’m sure most non Sikh don’t know the precise sizing or look of a kirpan ,no white police officer is going to risk their job by stopping a Sikh if they think their knife is 5cm too big
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u/RedditorSlug 9h ago
Glad some details are emerging. Disinformation fills any void.
Saw someone in another sub say the three attending police asked to view Nowak's phone for racist material before rendering aid. Haven't seen that anywhere else so it may be baloney but it could be true with this absolute shambles.
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u/Redcoat_Officer 9h ago
That would have been difficult as Henry's phone was in his murderer's pocket. Both it and his father's phone were reported to have been siezed by the Police afterwards. I remember someone saying it was because they were looking for possible racist messages, but my instinct is that was a secondhand spin on the facts brought up in court.
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u/Brapfamalam 9h ago
The judge confirmed in the sentencing that the claims he called him the racist term weren't corroborated and completely at odds with evidence of Henry's character.
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u/RedditorSlug 9h ago
They seized the victim's dad's phone? Abhorrent.
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u/SneakyFire23 8h ago
Of course they did, they had to try and find something to account for their appalling behavior.
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u/FentFloyd69 6h ago
I can only imagine the officer searching it praying “please be racist, please be racist, please be racist” just to have some excuse
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u/MoistRow8363 7h ago
The police involved need to go. If there’s any justice left in this hole of a country, they need to go at the minimum. Probably should be jailed for extreme neglect of their responsibilities. Handcuffed a dying man and let a murderer pick out his grub all leisurely. Hate this country.
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u/SinnerOfAlcaraz 10h ago
Can someone explain why Starmer hasn’t spoken about this at all?
Don’t give me stuff about “well he is the PM, another minister will discuss it” ultimately it’s a case that very much deserves a PM response.
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u/lardarz I interrupt your Cheerios 9h ago
took his time, but he's just posted this
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u/Nemisis_the_2nd Jaded Centrist 8h ago
And now watch him get criticised for not being for/against minorities/the police enough, depending on each persons opinion.
Given the situation i think its a reasonable post. Acknowledges that it was significant and the hurt that its caused to people, supports an independent investigation, but doesnt necessarily give an opinion.
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u/Prudent_Cow_7169 6h ago
It happened literally ages ago. He's done the bare minimum to get everyone to stop asking about it. He doesn't give a shit. This is the least objectionable way of saying he doesn't give any shits whilst still letting you know that he doesn't in fact give a shit.
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u/SneakyFire23 8h ago
Taking a knee was an opinion that he was happy to do, in this case it should be a simple "even if we couldnt do anything to help you, the police will afford you dignity as you die" not haul off, cuff you, mock you and then let your killer pack a box lunch to take with him.
This is why people think there's a two tier system and Stamer is just too feckless to actually come out and say what needs to be said.
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u/Primary-Signal-3692 10h ago
Politicians don't recognise anti-white racism as even being possible. To acknowledge it would make his head explode.
If he had to make a statement he'd talk about concern for the welfare of the asian community in light of 'far right' protests.
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u/Sir_Keef_Starmer 10h ago
He barely ever gets involved in virtue signalling about crimes.
It's not like he ever took a knee based on an American drug dealer dying.
That sort of petty stuff is below glorious leader.
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u/Umak30 10h ago
I know you are joking, but just for additional stuff :
Starmer welcomes the racist, anti-semitic, terrorist Egyptian "activist".
Starmer regrets welcoming British-Egyptian activist to UK after 'abhorrent' posts came to light
Or commented on the southport stabbing
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u/Prince_John 10h ago
Or is it because he understands that politicians commenting on active criminal cases can lead to mistrials?
It's a lesson that would be well learnt by others.
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u/fairlife42g 7h ago
Starmer's knee for Floyd took place a week after his death he didn't wait for the criminal case.
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u/ShireNorm 9h ago
Aka: shut up about cases that I don't like until it's died down and no one will remember or care anymore.
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u/DavidSwifty 10h ago
It was an ongoing court case.
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u/Umak30 10h ago
That didnt stop him before.
Like what about the racist, terrorist Egyptian "activist" ? For months it was public what type of person the "activist" was. How he was openly anti-semitic, and even anti-British.
Starmer regrets welcoming British-Egyptian activist to UK after 'abhorrent' posts came to light
He also commented about the Southport killings done by Axel Rudakubana, before the court case. And that they were barbaric.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-statement-on-the-southport-public-inquiry-21-january-2025
Or Starmer commented on the Golden Green stabbing https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/01/keir-starmer-condemns-zack-polanski-sharing-post-criticising-police-golders-green-stabbings
Clearly Starmer has no problems commenting on cases or people.
Also, does that mean you expect Starmer to now make a comment, after the court case happend and the racist, sadistic murderer got 21 years ?
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u/DavidSwifty 10h ago
> Like what about the racist, terrorist Egyptian "activist" ? For months it was public what type of person the "activist" was. How he was openly anti-semitic, and even anti-British.
Not an ongoing court case.
> He also commented about the Southport killings done by Axel Rudakubana, before the court case. And that they were barbaric.
PM Makes a statement after a barbaric attack. This is normal to do.
> Or Starmer commented on the Golden Green stabbing https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/01/keir-starmer-condemns-zack-polanski-sharing-post-criticising-police-golders-green-stabbings
This is an article about Starmer attacking the Green leader for talking about police brutality after police officers kicked a man in the head.
"I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking: ‘He’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here.’ And in those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is: ‘We need to do whatever we can to disable this guy,’” Starmer said."
He was saying the police were right to do what ever means necessary to disable the attacker.
What point are you trying to make?
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u/Umak30 9h ago
PM Makes a statement after a barbaric attack. This is normal to do.
Thanks for agreeing with me. Nowak was cruelly murdered. His attacker filmed him, twice, including close-ups of his face. Nowak was taunted and humiliated. Digwa's family lied to police, made up a racial hoax to claim self-defence and thus Nowak's last minutes on earth was begging for help ( his last words : "Please brother, I can't breathe" ), stating he had been stabbed and couldn't breathe, but instead he was arrested, put in handcuff and read his rights.
His sadistic murderer probably internally laughed at how disgusting Nowak last minutes on Earth were.
That is a barbaric attack. So it is a normal thing for the PM to make a statement, thansk for agreeing. Literally all I want ( apart from naturally justice for Nowak ).
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u/Not_A_Toaster_0000 9h ago
PM Makes a statement after a barbaric attack. This is normal to do.
So you agree he could do it for this as well, but is choosing not to for some reason.
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u/homeinthecity I support arming bears. 7h ago
The exact point you concede with "PM Makes a statement after a barbaric attack. This is normal to do."
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u/Besmirching_Badger 9h ago
They provably don't give a single shit when it's politically expedient.
Not commenting on this specifically, but as a general rule
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u/Prudent_Psychology57 10h ago
Don't give me the reasonable or correct answer, tell me what I want to hear...
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u/NuPNua 10h ago
Wasn't it ongoing until today?
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u/fairlife42g 7h ago
So was the George Floyd case and Starmer still posed for the cameras on the floor
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u/AlexT301 8h ago
Tricking... The police arrested who they wanted to arrest. One look at the STAB WOUND might have given them a clue
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u/randomlad93 8h ago
This case has made me angry beyond belief, I live in central london, if one of the far right groups like tommy robinson starts a protest over this I'll be in attendance, cant stand ten name tommy and his kind but this case can't be allowed to jsut fade from public conciousness
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u/SneakyFire23 8h ago
it's okay, the far left showed up to protest a memorial vigil for Nowak
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u/mildlyconcerninglit 8h ago
I just can’t get over the fact that one of the officers was actively laughing at Henry.
No wonder they won’t release the body cam footage.
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u/WhenWeWereAtVoine 7h ago
If we follow the George Floyd logic, this mean that policemen are racist against white people?
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u/whatDoesQezDo 8h ago
"tricking" is doing a lot of heavy lifting those cops should be tried and jailed for life.
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u/heligolandisbritish 7h ago
If you want a vision of the future - it’s this, unless millions go
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