Protesters clash with police over Henry Mowak murder despite family's plea

Описание: Politicians and community leaders have called for calm in the UK amid fears that the populist right is using the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak by a Sikh man to stir racist resentment against minority ethnic Britons.
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Nowak, an 18-year-old university student, was fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa, 23, who used a Sikh dagger, in Southampton in December 2025. Digwa falsely claimed he had been racially abused and attacked by Nowak. Body-camera footage released by Hampshire police showed Nowak being handcuffed despite repeatedly telling police officers he had been stabbed. At one point an officer tells him: “I don’t think you have, mate.”

The leader of hard-right party Reform UK, Nigel Farage, called for the public to respond with “pure, cold rage.” The prime minister, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has condemned Farage’s comments, saying Nowak’s family had explicitly asked that the case not be used to create grievance and division. target particular communities.

In what he described as an “emergency address”, sent via social media on Tuesday morning, Farage warned that what he termed as an excessive focus on racial equality could lead to “the destruction of society”.

He said: “Enough of anti-white prejudice. A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives.” The phrase “white lives matter” originally emerged among US white nationalists as a riposte to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The treatment of Nowak by police has been highlighted repeatedly by US farhard-right commentators, including Elon Musk, who have argued it shows “two-tier” policing in which accusations of racism are prioritised.

After Digwa was jailed, Nowak’s father, Mark Nowak, condemned the “inhumane and degrading” treatment of his son by police, but added: “We do not want his death to be used to create further division.

“We want his story to help make our streets safer for everyone. That is why we are calling on the government to treat knife crime as a national emergency.”

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