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Police body cam of student attack released, as killer jailed for life
Digwa was convicted after stabbing Henry Nowak five times, and police said his false account left the victim handcuffed while dying.
- On Monday, Vickrum Digwa was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 21 years at Southampton Crown Court for murdering 18-year-old Henry Nowak.
- Digwa stabbed Nowak on December 3, 2025, with a 21cm kirpan, then told police a 'wicked lie' claiming he was attacked, causing officers to handcuff the dying student.
- Prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg KC described Digwa as having a 'weapons obsession,' while his mother, Kiran Kaur, was found guilty of assisting an offender by hiding the murder weapon.
- Mark Nowak, the victim's father, called his son's treatment 'inhumane and degrading,' urging the Government to treat knife crime as 'the national emergency that it is.'
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, while tech billionaire Elon Musk offered to fund a private prosecution against the police.
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Sikh man jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years for knife murder of student
The prosecution said that Vickrum Digwa had told a ‘wicked lie’ to police by telling them that he had been the victim of a racist attack.
·London, United Kingdom
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Vickrum Digwa, 23, stabbed to death Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old student, while returning from an evening in Southampton. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 21-year security sentence by the city's criminal court.
·Paris, France
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