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Henry Nowak: Stabbed Multiple Times, Dies While Handcuffed & Arrested Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’
- A Radical Dispatch
1) Henry Nowak Dies
The United Kingdom is facing a national reckoning on the topic of reverse racism. This is a Stephen Lawrence moment for white Britons. A George Floyd moment in reverse.
Except, unlike George Floyd - whose death during a police arrest sparked global Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests - Henry Nowak was not a convicted criminal. He was an 18 year old white student.
The crisis centres on the murder of Nowak by British Sikh man Vikram Digwa, using his ceremonial knife (Kirpan) for which Sikhs enjoy a legal exemption to carry. To make matters worse, Vikram Digwa went on to tell police that Nowak had been racially abusing him.
Believing the killer and his family, and not the lone young boy who was lying bleeding out on the floor before them, police tragically dismissed Nowak’s claim that he had been stabbed. They instead arrested and handcuffed Nowak as he bled out in their arms, while ignoring his pleas that he could not breathe. The last words Nowak heard as he passed away were his rights being read to him by police.
This is how Henry Nowak was criminalised at his own murder. We know all of this because damning police body camera footage of the entire sorry episode was released to the public yesterday, after Vikram Digwa was finally convicted for the murder.
Britain is understandably outraged.
The Times reports 2nd June 2026:
“…Farage, the leader of Reform UK, said ‘the rights and privileges of white people’ matter less than those of minorities after footage was released of police arresting Henry Nowak, 18, for alleged racial abuse minutes before he died of a stab wound. Vickrum Digwa, 23, had attacked the finance student with a 21cm Sikh ceremonial dagger as he walked home from a night out, before telling police officers Nowak had racially abused him. Police bodycam footage released on Monday showed Nowak repeatedly told police ‘I can’t breathe’ and that he had been stabbed as they handcuffed him, only for officers to say they did not believe him. Farage said the officers’ response showed that ‘an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder’, likening the row to the murder of George Floyd, which sparked widespread Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.”
The traumatic police body cam footage speaks for itself.
Warning: the below is distressing real life police body camera footage of Henry Nowak’s last moments.
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Suspect 1, male: “He’s jumped over these fences and stuff like that.”
Suspect 2, male: “And he’s up here.”
Officer 1, male: “Step away mate.”
Suspect 2, male: “He’s obviously, he’s fallen from there and he’s slipped from there.”
Suspect 1, male: “His other shoe’s been left over there mate.”
Officer 1, male: “What’s your name mate? Huh?…Has anyone been hurt other than him?”
Suspect 1: “Yeah me. He’s grabbed my brother. He’s took my turban off and he started grabbing my head.”
Officer 1, male: “Are you injured?”
Suspect 1, male: “Yeah yeah I’ve got swollen eye & little bruises.”
Officer 1, male: “Alright just step back a little bit for me. Someone flag these down.”
Victim Henry Nowak: “Argh. I’ve been stabbed.”
Officer 1, male: “Right, let’s get you out of there shall we?”
Victim Henry Nowak: “I’ve been stabbed. I’ve been st…I can’t breathe! I can’t.”
Officer: “Grab his other arm.”
Victim Henry Nowak: “Call ambulance. Call ambulance.”
Officer 1, male: “What’s happened to you, alright?”
Victim Henry Nowak: “I’ve been stabbed. I’ve been st…”
Officer 1, male: “You’ve been stabbed? Whereabouts? Don’t think you have mate. Hand.”
Victim: “Call ambulance. Cal.. arggh! I can’t breathe!”
Officer: “Put the hand in the cuff mate.”
Victim Henry Novak: ”I can’t. I can’t breathe!…..I can’t breathe.”
Officer 1, male: “He’s saying he’s been stabbed, so I’ll just check him.”
Officer 2, female: “Where is it you think you’ve been stabbed?”
Suspect 1, male: “He hasn’t been stabbed. I don’t know why he’s saying that.”
Officer 2, female: “In the face? Oh no, but we have to check, don’t we?”
Suspect 1, male: “Yeah yeah, that’s fine.”
Officer 2, female: “In the face?”
Officer 1, male: “Just get these to back off, get their details and that, and I’ll keep hold of him.”
Victim Henry Novak: ”Please brother, I can’t breathe.”
Officer 1, male: “Keep you on your side, mate. There are injuries then? Saying to him keeping him on his side. We were sat up when we had him here, but he didn’t like it. What’s your name, mate? Right at the moment you are under arrest, and that’s for assault. So you do not have to say anything that may harm your defence, if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence. Alright? He’s gonna be sick, I think.”
Officer 3, female: “What’s his name?”
Officer 1, male: “Yeah I just want you to call it.”
Officer 3, female: “Yeah, we’ve got this male, he’s just been beat up. Are we able to get an ambulance please?”
Officer 2, female: “His pupils aren’t even reacting.”
The above requires no further clarification. It is simply heartbreaking. The Times has published an image of the ceremonial murder weapon used by Digwa to kill Nowak.
The Times reports 2nd June 2026:
British Sikhs are exempted, on religious grounds, from the legal prohibition on carrying knives in Britain.
The Business Standard reports 18th May 2019:
“A new Offensive Weapons Bill aimed at tackling rising knife crime in the UK completed its journey through Parliament to become an act of law after receiving the Royal Assent of Queen Elizabeth II this week. The bill had been amended late last year to ensure that it would not impact the right of the British Sikh community to possess and supply kirpans, or religious swords.”
The UK College of Policing provides explicit guidance on this matter as below.
UK College of Policing reports, accessed 2nd June 2026:
The combination of murder, the weaponisation of racism, severe police failures and a Sikh religious exemption on carrying ceremonial knives in public, has made this case the perfect storm stoking a populist national outcry.
2) Dignified Responses
Henry Nowak’s father has read out a statement on behalf of the family.
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Henry Nowak’s father on GB News: “I am Henry Novak’s father. To my left is my daughter Olivia Novak, Henry’s older sister, and to her left is Lucy Ross, Henry Novak’s mother. The jury confirmed what we’ve always known. Henry’s life was taken from him unlawfully, violently, and without justification. Henry was 18 years old. He was kind, ambitious, loved and full of promise. He had his whole life ahead of him, a degree to finish, places to see and a future to build. That future was stolen from him and no verdict or sentence will ever give it back. Henry did nothing wrong. He was one of the kindest, friendliest and most inclusive people you could ever hope to meet. He was amazing in every way. On the 3rd of December last year, Henry was walking home from a night out with his university football teammates when he encountered Vikram Digwa, a man openly carrying a large knife on the streets of Britain. That knife was used to take Henry’s life. He should have been safe walking home. Instead, he became another young life lost to the brutal reality of knife crime in this country. Henry had been stabbed multiple times, and as his chest filled with blood, he tried to escape. He was chased, abused, and filmed by Vikram Digwa and others. 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 that 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, 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. Let me be absolutely clear. We hold Vikram Digwa solely and 100% 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 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 Vikram 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 of police conduct of what happened that evening. The IOPC investigation remains ongoing. Whilst we await its final report, we are calling on the Home Secretary to ensure that the IOPC has the resources, authority and independence it needs to conduct a full, fearless and transparent investigation. Our family should not have to fight for the truth anymore. Despite the shocking actions of the police on that fatal night, the murder investigation was very different. We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Senior Investigating Officer DCI Rebecca Bartholomew, the Serious Crime Team and in particular Officer in the Case Claire Proctor. We would also like to thank our incredible Family Liaison Officers Sarah Page and Trudy May for their diligence, professionalism and compassion throughout this investigation.”
The British Sikh Federation has also unequivocally condemned the murder.
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“We condemn this action fully, in the strongest terms. There’s no space for this. And anybody who has been convinced by this, or unclear, we’ll be very categorical. This individual Vikram Digwa lied in his statements. It’s clear that he did not intend to go out to kill Henry Novak. His intention wasn’t to seek confrontation or to have any altercation. It happened. They were out on the street. It happened. It escalated. After it escalated, as I said earlier, Vikram had the choice. He chose to do what he did, and for that he is solely responsible. But with that action, he’s brought the whole Sikh community into the spotlight, whether intended or unintended we now have to deal with that, and we have to now not only repair the damage done, but we have to collectively protect not only the community but the Kaqar as well. So this was an important message that we had to share with you today, because we were restricted with what we could say, formally, on the television, but it was his choice to draw a weapon and use it in an offensive manner. That does not correlate with the Sikh tenets of the Sikh faith. We made that very clear.”
3) Tone Deaf Responses
Amidst the range of responses, some have stood out as being tone deaf and politically driven.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch’s decision to spoil her otherwise heartfelt reaction to Nowak’s death by criticising Nigel Farage has backfired.
The Times reports 2nd June 2026:
“Kemi Badenoch has accused Nigel Farage of ‘whipping up’ anger and division after he claimed that a white teenager’s murder shows Britain is a ‘two-tier’ country.”
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GMB host: “It should be white lives matter. Are you making the same point?”
Kemi Badenoch: “It should be everyone matters It should be everyone matters We should not make this about Nigel Farage. This is about Henry Novak. And I listened to his father and it was absolutely heartbreaking. And this morning I watched that body cam footage and I just kept thinking ‘what if that was my boy?’ His last moments, his last moments were spent in handcuffs. He knew he was dying and he could see the confusion, his attacker claiming that he had been a racist. It’s an awful, awful way for anyone to die. And I don’t think anyone should, it doesn’t matter, whether it’s politicians or the police or the public, the first place we need to start is what that boy had gone through, and what his family is going through. That case shows that something has gone very horribly wrong with policing, and I think I know why. I think that in 2020, 2021, there was a response to the George Floyd murders that has overcorrected and caused a lot of problems. I put out a report...”
GMB Host: “That was Black Lives Matter?
Kemi Badenoch: “Yes, the...”
GMB Host: “Nigel Farage said today it should be White Lives Matter. Are you making the same point?”
Kemi Badenoch: “It should be ‘everyone matters’. It should be ‘everyone matters’. I put out a report in 2021 saying that our country is not racist, and our police are not institutionally racist. And I think the training that many of these police are having don’t have any common sense in them. We need to bring back common sense. You don’t need to be trained on racism, or anti-racism, to have seen what Henry was experiencing and know that he needed help. You don’t need it. Something has gone wrong with policing. But we all need to take a good long hard look at ourselves. It is not just the police. I remember when this movement was happening, and I was saying we are creating different rules for different people. All of the people who were taking the knee about a man who died in another country, should think about doing the same here. We need to bring back equality under the law. What Nigel Farage is doing, is reinforcing the difference. I have said that we need to find what we have in common. Not what separates us. I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter. I don’t want to hear about white lives matter. We all matter. Enough of this nonsense where we keep separating everybody and splitting people into different groups. We are descending into tribalism. I do not want that. It is why I say that we should be a multiracial country, not a multicultural country. Let’s have one shared culture, British culture. How the police treat everyone should not matter, depending on the colour of their skin. And we shouldn’t pretend that racism is something that only happens to ethnic minorities. It happens to everybody, black or white.”
The truth is, Farage’s ‘Emergency Address’ to the nation argues for nothing but equality before the law.
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Maajd Nawaz for WARRIOR CREED: “Take it from us as we say to you that Kemi Badenoch, the Leader of the Conservative Party, Member of Parliament, has there, that you just saw, lifted Nigel Farage’s talking points, lifted his framing and reference points for understanding and framing this problem in society, adopted all of them, and while doing so, criticised him for having said it first. That’s otherwise known, Kemi, as cultural appropriation, and it’s what you’ve just done in that interview. We’re going to show you Nigel Farage’s video that he puts out at 8am this morning, the emergency address, to which Kemi Badenoch is responding and you will hear in that video Farage making it absolutely clear that he wants equality and that what he’s doing is pointing out the inequality. It leaves no room for doubt when Farage has given that emergency address that his aspiration is one rule for all.”
It is curious though that the Conservative and Labour parties share the same talking points about Nigel Farage. Like Badenoch, Labour wasted no time in going for Farage too. Here is PM Starmer’s appointee to public prosecutions, Nazir Afzal doing just that.
Approaches that focus on defending the spotlighted community rather than prioritise the victim’s family are also tone deaf.
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Independent politician Ahmed Yakoob: “You cannot blame an entire community for the actions of one individual. Sikhs for hundreds of years have been carrying the Kirpan. It is a sign of duty, justice and protecting the vulnerable. It’s not about violence, religious freedom and public safety can coexist, people need to understand this. We as Muslims get targeted everytime a Muslim makes a mistake. This should not happen. If a Sikh commits a mistake, that’s his own personal choice and Sikhism hasn’t advised him to commit that crime. We send out our prayers for the family of the deceased Henry Novak. The perpetrator has already been punished. A perpetrator who is a criminal, he’s being punished. The Sikh faith is not on trial and people need to understand this. A lot of people who ponder to the far right need to wake up now. The Sikh community, I fear for you and I stand with you.”
A Sikh did not get stabbed to death. A white British boy did. Concern around the welfare of the British Sikh community is admirable, but such concern should not be centred in speeches by public figures. Instead, the institutional and cultural failures that led to Nowak’s murder should be centred. The same answers that were demanded of institutional and cultural failures after Stephen Lawrence’s murder, should now be demanded after Henry Nowak’s murder.
4) The Balkanisation of Britain
This story is now bigger than the single case of Henry Nowak. It has come to symbolise a problem that is decades in the making. For police to so horrifically mix up victim and perpetrator implies a deep rooted rot: one that implies the public must accept accusations of racism unquestioningly.
For the police, it appears that the fear of being called racist was more worrisome than a dying boy in their arms. Such institutional malaise reflects a broader cultural failure. Multiculturalism is dead.
90s era multiculturalism has led to the balkanisation of Britain and two-tier justice.
Compare Keir Starmer’s reaction in taking a knee over the killing of George Floyd to his focus today on discrediting Nigel Farage as ‘divisive’ for daring to suggest that we should all feel rage at the death of Henry Nowak.
That is more evidence, if ever it was needed, that multiculturalism has been weaponised to police dissent in the name of anti-racism.
This author made this very point while speaking to GB News last night for Dewbs & Co.
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Maajid Nawaz for Dewbs & Co. on GB News: “..this is something that's not just happened today or yesterday. This has been brewing for decades in this country. Unfortunately, we as communities in Britain have been living together, apart. We've been growing together, apart. And the 90s-era Labour Party motivated so-called multiculturalism in this country has, rather than lead to the empowerment of minorities, it has instead led to monocultural ghettos where the first victims in fact are the ethnic minorities it claims to defend, because what we've seen is the complete disappearance of social mobility in this country, and the balkanization of our communities. And that's really the context in which this tragic murder of Henry Nowak has come in, because of course what kind of mindset has been brewing for so many years that leads in the end result to police feeling paralysed in their ability to recognize who the victim was here, and who the perpetrators were, from fear of being called racist. And that, in fact, if you look to the underage-rape 'grooming' gang scandal that's also been brewing for decades in this country under the Labour Party, is precisely why Keir Starmer and his Labour Party were unable to act when it came to these sorts of crimes because they were paralysed from the fear of being called racist. Keir Starmer, if you remember Michelle, whipped every single Labour MP in Parliament against the inquiry into underage rape 'grooming' gangs. And now here is another example where the police, for reasons that only they can explain, decided to arrest a man who then died in their arms after he'd been stabbed four times. The reaction of rage in this country is perfectly understandable, and anyone, including Kemi Badenoch, by the way, the leader of the Conservatives anyone who tries to weaponize this moment to score political points instead of expressing sheer outrage at the facts, Michelle, is guilty of perpetrating more of the same. It's interesting to me that the leader of the Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch's response in attacking Nigel Farage, mirrors that of the Labour Party response in attacking Nigel Farage. People such as Keir Starmer's acolyte, the public prosecutor Nazir Afzal - who prosecuted the token cases in the grooming gang inquiry in order to contain them, don't forget - he also decided to attack Nigel Farage. And all Nigel did was give an address this morning saying it's an emergency for the country, and that we should be outraged. Of course we should be outraged! Multiculturalism in this country has failed. It is dead. And instead, we should be focusing on what we have in common, what we share, and there's a word for that, it's called Omniculturalism. And it's about time we all understood what it meant to belong to this country.”
And Farage properly captured this sentiment in his own emergency address to the nation over Nowak’s death.
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Nigel Farage: “Good morning. It’s a moment to take a long, hard look at ourselves as a country and what we’ve become. The murder of 18-year-old student Henry Novak was bad enough of itself, but compounded in the most extraordinary way by the behaviour of the police officers. Many of us have asked for the footage to be released, and finally, last night it was. Let me show you just 30 seconds of what happened on that fateful evening in Southampton.
Victim Henry Nowak: ‘Argh…I’ve been stabbed’
Officer 1, male: ‘Right, let’s get you out of there, shall we?’
Victim Henry Nowak: ‘I’ve been stabbed. I’ve been st…I can’t breathe! I can’t.’
Officer: ‘Grab his other arm.’
Victim Henry Nowak: ‘Call ambulance. Call ambulance’
Officer 1, male: “What’s happened to you, alright?”
Victim Henry Nowak: “I’ve been stabbed. I’ve been st…”
Officer 1, male: “You’ve been stabbed? Whereabouts? Don’t think you have mate.”
Just think of it. An 18-year-old lad, a student, been out with some friends for the evening, on the way home, and victim of a sustained attack. Stabbed several times, chased down the street. Stabbed seriously five times. And what happens? Well, the assailant’s brother rings the police to say we’ve just been racially attacked and abused by a white guy. The sirens blare, they arrive. Young Henry must have thought that at last help was at hand, but far, far from it. The police act from the beginning to the end, and the end when he dies, lying on a pavement, having been stabbed in handcuffs. The last thing he heard on this earth was in being read his rights by the police. He was actually treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder. What does he say? ‘I can’t breathe.’ Familiar words? Remember career criminal George Floyd who died in appalling circumstances in Midwest America a few years ago. Remember the reaction to that and the way the police behaved. Within a few days, Keir Starmer was taking the knee. Black Lives Matter exploded all over the country. Churchill’s statue was defaced. The cenotaph was vandalised. And yet, what has the public reaction been from our leaders and politicians? And indeed, to be frank, much of the media, to this? Silence. Absolute silence. Proof, if ever there was any, that we’re living in a two-tier culture in this country, where the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities. Now what has happened over the last few decades is without anybody being asked, without anybody ever voting for it, we’ve been subjected to mass immigration on a scale that is truly unbelievable. At least 10 million new people have come to Britain in the last 20 years. And let’s be clear, many of them are great people who work hard, have integrated and made their lives here. But far too many that have come, have refused to integrate, are leaving parallel lives and leaving many of our cities almost culturally unrecognisable from what they’ve always been. But to stop any criticism of this, we’ve brought in hate speech laws. We’ve brought in a DEI agenda. We’ve brought in what is called positive discrimination in favour of ethnic minorities over those of white people whose families have lived in Britain, in many cases, for centuries. That is the mess that we’ve got into. And that is why in some ways what happened, and despite the appalling behaviour of those police officers, but in some ways what happened on that night in Southampton perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise in two-tier Britain. Alison Pearson, journalist on the Daily Telegraph, received yesterday an email from an experienced, long-serving Hampshire police officer. In it he makes perfectly clear that the police are told that they must respond to situations in different ways according to the ethnicity of those involved in the crime or potential crime. He also describes how a DEI agenda has gone so far through the police that people now get promoted not on the basis of merit, not on the basis of ability, but on the basis of what their racial or religious origin is. That has led to a decline in policing standards. But think of this. Much as we may condemn the two police officers involved here, think of this, the biggest fear a police officer now has going about his or her duty on the street is the fear of being reported for having acted in a way that was racially biased. That fear now greater than dealing with a dying man living on the ground. Henry’s family have responded to this in just the most extraordinarily dignified way. But I suggest the rest of us respond to this with pure cold rage. This is wrong. All the values and standards of living in a free country where everybody is judged equally before the law have been trashed and thrown away. And there are one or two things that need to happen very quickly. The first is that the police complaints operation, the IOPC, needs to get to the bottom of this and produce a report very, very quickly. Secondly, even through to sentencing, the sentence given was actually lower than the recommended minimum for a sustained, aggressive, murderous assault. And I’ll be writing today to the Attorney General asking him to review the sentence. But the most important thing that needs to change, that has to change, if our society is not to be ripped apart, where communities start to distrust each other and deeply distrust the police and all the other institutions of this country, is we need a change in culture. Enough of anti-white prejudice. A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives. An end to DEI and positive discrimination, but a country that treats everybody equally and fairly before the law. This is serious. This is urgent. I fear for where our society will be in a few short years if we don’t grip this and do it very, very quickly. I want to send my sincerest condolences to the country’s sincerest condolences to Henry’s family. I hope this is the last time a British police force operates in this way. But the fish rots from the head down. It is up to government and police chiefs to change this culture and to start that process today.”
This is exactly the case that we have been making for a over a decade.
The Express reports 19th December 2016:
Here is that old LBC video referenced, from 2016.
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