Reform Pledges 'End to Sikh Blade Exemption and Police Race Plans' After Murder of Henry Nowak

Kirpans, sgian dubh and re-enactments: the exemptions to UK knife laws

Hampshire’s police and crime commissioner has called for a review of religious exemptions on the carrying of knives in public after the fatal stabbing of Henry Nowak last December.Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life on Monday for stabbing the 18-year-old Nowak five times with what the judge called a “large Sikh dagger”. The prosecution told the jury that while Digwa was entitled to wear a small kirpan, a ceremonial sword or dagger worn by initiate…

Nowak’s killing reopens the battle over Britain’s Sikh kirpan exemption

The kirpan symbolises a duty to defend the faith and protect the weak, and is usually a small, sheathed dagger worn out of sight. Source

Robert Jenrick calls for DEI police training to be 'ripped up' after Commons 'atttack' by Shabana Mahmood: 'We need action!'

Robert Jenrick has demanded that all DEI (Diversity, Equality and Inclusion) police training be "ripped up" following a House of Commons showdown with Shabana Mahmood over the murder of Henry Nowak.

Reform pledges 'end to Sikh blade exemption and police race plans' after murder of Henry Nowak

Reform UK has pledged to enact an "Equal Treatment Act" which repeals police race action plans, ends DEI practices and abolishes the exemption for Sikhs to carry large blades.

Reform will ban Kirpan blades and abolish police diversity plans

Reform has pledged to ban Sikhs from carrying Kirpan blades and abolish police diversity plans following Henry Nowak's murder.

Henry Nowak’s fatal stabbing is no reason to ban the kirpan

Demands that ceremonial daggers like mine be banned miss the point, says Sharan Dhaliwal – the blade that killed the 18-year-old university student wasn’t an article of faith