More about the terrible death of Henry Nowak
Now we learn even more about the behavior of Henry Nowak’s murderer, as more news slowly is revealed:
It turns out that Vickrum Digwa is far more vicious and depraved than we were led to believe, and that Britons have not been allowed to see much of the evidence. Neither was the jury, because the judge deemed the evidence too disturbing to share with them. Think about that and let it sink in: Digwa was so depraved in his behavior that the judge withheld evidence of his crime from the people who needed to know because it would enrage them.
If that withholding of evidence from the jury is true – and I’m not 100% sure it is – I’m not sure on what legal grounds it would happen; “it would be too upsetting” hardly seems sufficient. I’ve been puzzled and frustrated from the start by all the gaps in the record and especially in the reporting of the trial itself.
There is some reference to it in the judge’s sentencing remarks, or at least a reference to something similar:
Your brother, Gurpreet, arrived on the scene very shortly after your attack had finished. You then filmed Henry desperately trying to get away from you, somehow scaling a fence, onto a communal bin, before landing on a car in front of the property next door. Bloodstains show that he had got one, more or all his injuries before then.
You then showed a callous disregard for his wellbeing, knowing you had stabbed him to the chest. You continued to make films of Henry suffering, ignoring much of his desperation at having been stabbed. You told him that had not happened, no doubt to convince others who were nearby. Your attitude did not change even though Henry was clearly going downhill very fast. Your brother did much the same, although he may just have been accepting that which you had told him, rather than lying himself. …
You kept Henry’s phone with the incriminating recording of you on it. You had no intention of handing it over. It was found on you after you had been arrested and taken into police custody.
There was a conversation between the two brothers in Punjabi as they were being driven to the station. At least the police had the presence of mind to record that conversation (or maybe the act of recording was automatic?). It was in that conversation that Vickrum Digwa confessed to his brother that he was guilty, and this confession was discovered when the conversation was translated.
The following allegedly involves video taken by a home security camera, but I can’t find the Daily Mail article referred to:
The Daily Mail has now published details from sentencing that almost no one has reported.
As Henry Nowak — bleeding from five stab wounds — tried to climb a commercial rubbish bin and over a fence to escape, Vickrum Digwa filmed him.
And taunted him.
“You’re not going to get… pic.twitter.com/G4HvnLvo62
— Justice For Henry Nowak (@HenryNowakSol_) June 4, 2026
A home security camera then captured what may be the most chilling exchange in this entire case.
Henry: “I am dying.”
Digwa: “You’re not dying bro.”
Ten minutes later, Henry said: “You stabbed me.”
Digwa replied: “No, I didn’t.”
In the ten minutes that followed the stabbing, Vickrum Digwa did not call an ambulance. He filmed Henry for a full five minutes instead.
That clip was deemed too disturbing to be played in court.
Which clip was deemed too disturbing – the one Digwa filmed? The one from the home security camera? Or both? I don’t think either has been released to the public (although we’ve seen the police videocam with certain aspects blurred). I continue to find it surprising that the jury didn’t see the video made by Digwa on Nowak’s cellphone (perhaps it came under some self-incrimination exclusionary rule?) or in particular the home security video (some privacy rule?). The judge almost certainly saw all the videos, but I’ve been unable to find anything that clarifies further.
A question that remains for me is how much time passed in its entirety, from the stabbing itself to Henry’s death. This would seem important in determining if he could have been saved. More time seems to have passed than we originally were led to believe. There’s also this:
It is apparently true that if the stab wound had pierced an artery, [Nowak’s] chances of survival were low, especially by the time they arrived. But it did not. It pierced a vein, and the resulting leak would have been far slower, because such wounds clot far more quickly, slowing the bleeding. It is likely that the act of dragging Nowak and then handcuffing as they did reopened and stretched the puncture, and that led to his quickly dying.
A doctor testified that Nowak could not have been saved no matter what, but I won’t believe that until I hear more corroborating details. There will be an inquest to look into it further:
The full inquest into the death of Henry Nowak will open with a jury at Winchester Coroner’s Court on 20 September 2027.
More than a year away? What on earth?
From Ace, who thinks an hour passed between the stabbing and the death, although I’m not sure on what that is based:
People point out there was a trauma center five minutes away — but they allowed the “racist” to bleed out on the ground for an hour while chatting with the racist foreign family of killers.
This is a case of a murder that grows in meaning and force rather than fading. I suppose it will fade – no doubt authorities are hoping for that. But it taps into so many themes of recent years: “anti-racism” resulting in racism against the non-favored groups, the focus on hate speech as an actionable offense (especially in Europe and Canada) if the hate speech is against those favored groups, the phenomenon of violent crime by immigrants from foreign countries (although Sikhs are generally quite law-abiding), and DEI prejudice on the part of police. It also highlights the ubiquity of recording devices, without which I doubt Digwa would have been convicted at all.
After Derek Chauvin’s trial, I’m not inclined to trust a government pathologist in a case like this.
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NB, the State of Minnesota and the local U.S. Attorney have imprisoned one officer for multiple decades and have been hounding three others for the crime of being present when George Floyd expired from a self-administered dose of fentanyl. They did so even though the officers had called an ambulance to thake GF to a hospital. (The ambulance was late because the driver went to the wrong address in the first instance). Here we have a case which screams for a trustworthy investigation of the officers on a charge of criminally negligent homicide and the fanciful police watchdog recommends no disciplinary sanction for them whatsoever. The Hampshire police is a force run by sociopaths.
Remember the photo essay on the Hungarian Revolution in 1956?
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Always go armed.
Incident timing ought to be readily available what with both cell-phones used
Why did Digwa stab him??? In all the coverage, I have not seen a description of an altercation, a fight, an anything. Did he just walk up to Henry randomly and put a knife in his chest while Henry was minding his own business? (Digwa has been described as mentally disturbed so it’s entirely possible that he was unprovoked.) Did I just manage to miss this part of the story?
See also Andy Ngo: Why So Many English People See Themselves in Henry Nowak
I’m sure that applies to well beyond England.
Because he could (and he thought he could exploit the oikophobia of the political class as his parents had done)
The eloi police in hampshire, really lived up to type
Meanwhile, Nigel Farage voiced outrage over two tier British policing.
This is becoming a cliche…but it gets even worse—more sordid and more sinister—than one can imagine…
“UK Cop Fired For Questioning Islam In ‘Safe Space’”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-cop-fired-questioning-islam-safe-space
This is why people believe Britain is lost (while others will celebrate that it’s been won)…
Seems I spoke too soon…
“TWO-TIER BRITAIN”—
https://instapundit.com/802044/
If only being “two-tiered” was the problem…
…In fact the UK police force has been
hijacked byhanded on a platter to supporters of terror…Seems as if the cops are now smearing Nowak.
For grins, supposed the first thrust did not disable Nowak and he replied with a crippling blow…..
MrsX,
I saw reports that Nowak had had a few drinks (but was not drunk), accidentally bumped into Digwa, and, seeing the big knife he was wearing, asked him jokingly if he was a bad man. A scuffle may have ensued in which Digwa’s turban was displaced.
I think I saw this on the Daily Mail’s website.
I assumed they meant that the prior bad acts were not directly relevant to his guilt or innocence of the current charges, were too far removed in subject matter and did not form part of a continuing criminal act, and were so grotesque as to be likely to influence the jury improperly regarding his current guilt or innocence. Evidence of that kind in the U.S. is excluded in the primary trial but is admissible in sentencing.
Rue Brittania.
Wendy K Laubach:
Why do you call the videos evidence of prior bad acts? The videos in question – the ones the jury supposedly was not allowed to see – involved Digwa interacting with Nowak right after he stabbed him. One of the videos was taken by Digwa himself of the victim, and one was taken by a home security camera.
Selfy; MrsX:
I referred to the initial verbal interaction between the two in my first post on the subject. I linked there to where the description could be found, which is in the judge’s address on sentencing (you can find the judge’s full remarks by scrolling down at the link I just gave).
A relevant excerpt (the “you” here is Vickrum Digwa, whom the judge is addressing):
If what they were talking about was the defendant’s behavior at and around the time of the killing, then I’m at a complete loss. That makes no sense at all.