Nigel Farage Accused Of ‘Whipping People Up’ With Response To Henry Nowak Murder
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Nigel Farage of “whipping people up” and deepening divisions with his response to the murder of 18-year-old University of Southampton student Henry Nowak.
Nowak was fatally stabbed with a 21cm ceremonial knife by 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa in Southampton. Digwa has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years.
On the night of the stabbing, Digwa claimed to police that Nowak had racially abused and assaulted him. Based on this lie, police officers handcuffed the heavily bleeding teenager as he lay dying in the street.
Bodycam footage showed an officer questioning Nowak’s assertion that he had been stabbed, telling him: “I don’t think you have, mate.” Hampshire Police subsequently issued an apology to Nowak’s family.
Following the release of the bodycam footage, Nigel Farage published a video statement arguing that the case exposed a “two-tier culture” and “anti-white prejudice” in British policing.
The Reform UK leader said Nowak had been “treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder.”
Farage stated that while Nowak’s family had behaved with immense dignity, “the rest of us respond to this with pure cold rage.” He added that “white lives matter just as much as black lives” and formally requested that the Attorney General review Digwa’s life sentence, calling it unduly lenient.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Kemi Badenoch strongly condemned Farage’s response, saying: “We can’t solve it by whipping people up. We can’t solve it by making them angry.”
She accused Farage of “taking sides” and racialising society, adding: “We need to stop using race as a way of defining laws… Let’s treat everyone equally.”
Hampshire Police Federation separately condemned social media users for “vigilante justice” after online accounts misidentified local officers and published their home addresses.
This was a pretty large fvck up, to be fair – one officer has had to relocate after being erroneously identified as being in the bodycam footage.
Meanwhile, Henry Nowak’s father, Mark Nowak, stated outside court that the family did not want his son’s death “to be used to create further hatred, division or tension,” instead calling on the government to treat knife crime as a national emergency.
Digwa’s family also released an apology to the Nowaks via the Sikh Press Association, appealing to the public that the tragedy not be used “to inflame division or hostility towards any community.”
For footage of police arresting Nowak as he bled to death in the street, click HERE. Shocking scenes.
