UK Reform leader Michael Farage has delivered an address to the nation over the shocking bodycam footage that has emerged around the murder last year of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak. The student was handcuffed as he repeatedly told police officers “I can’t breathe” as he lay dying from stab wounds.
The 18-year-old Southampton student was handcuffed after his killer Vickrum Digwa, 23, told police he had been the victim of a racist attack, to which police responded in force.
Footage released by the police, with permission from Nowak’s family, shows him pleading “I’ve been stabbed” and an officer replying “I don’t think you have mate”.
His father, Mark, said his son told officers nine times that he could not breathe and had been stabbed four times. Henry was pulled across the gravel, his hands forced behind his back and he was placed in handcuffs on the basis of the alleged “racist attack”.
Some commentators noted wryly that “I can’t breathe” were the words spoken by the US drug dealer George Floyd, who was turned into a global martyr and prompted the slogan Black Lives Matter and a movement of the same name.
Mr Nowak said the contrast between how his son and Digwa had been treated was “unbearable”.
Nowak suffered stab wounds to his legs and a fatal wound to his heart from a 21cm (8in) blade that Digwa said he carried as part of his Sikh faith. Digwa has appeared in court where he jailed for life with a minimum 21-year term.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said an investigation into the police force’s actions was ongoing.
Speaking in the House of Commons earlier, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood revealed a police officer unrelated to the case had been misidentified and forced to relocate in order to protect him and his family.
The attorney general’s office is also considering the jail sentence given to Digwa after receiving “multiple requests” to review it under the unduly lenient sentence (ULS) scheme.
The release of the bodycam footage has prompted mass protests and rioting across the UK with Prime Minister Keir Starmer threatening to use “the full force of the law” against them.
Britons, however, are enraged by Starmer’s two-tier policing system which treats immigrants as a protected class and native Britons as fair targets.
I was horrified when I read about this! He “told officers nine times that he could not breathe and had been stabbed four times”. Wouldn’t it be standard procedure to call an ambulance?!
“WHAT IS A WHITE LIFE WORTH” ?
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