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Henry Nowak Was Handcuffed While Dying After Killer's False Racist Claim Misled Police, Court Hears

Digwa was convicted after the jury rejected his self-defence claim and found he filmed the dying student instead of calling emergency services.

Summary by IBTimes UK
Henry Nowak, 18, was handcuffed by police on a Southampton street and was heard saying 'I can't breathe' as he lay dying from stab wounds on 3 December 2025, after his killer, 23-year-old neighbour Vickrum Digwa, claimed he had been the victim of racist abuse and an attack on his turban, a court has heard. The news came after an unseen video emerged of Digwa in his back garden more than three years earlier, brandishing what appears to be a gun w…

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Fighting "racism above all"? After the death of 18-year-old Briton Henry Nowak, who the police preferred to handcuff instead of helping him because of a accusation of racism, the official confessions of the British police become the focus of anti-racism. It states that officials should focus in their work on the sensitivities of various ethnic groups. Thus, in the case of Nowak, the officials did practically only what they were told. Southampton…

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IBTimes UK broke the news in United Kingdom on Sunday, June 7, 2026.
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