Police Blamed Henry Nowak In Early Statement Draft Three Days After He Was Murdered

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, an investigative report has revealed that Hampshire Police drafted an official statement three days after the murder of Henry Nowak that strongly implied he was the initial aggressor.

According to The Sunday Times, the force wanted to portray Nowak as the aggressor in an official statement three days after his death, but changed their wording after the Nowak family vehemently objected.

18-year-old Henry Nowak died in the early hours of December 4 after being stabbed multiple times by Vickrum Digwa, who is Sikh and had falsely claimed to police that Henry had racially abused and assaulted him.

As seen in the bodycam footage, police turned up and placed Henry in handcuffs as he lay dying in the street, responding to his assertions that he couldn’t breathe and that he had been stabbed with: “Don’t think you have, mate.”

By the time the police realised that the University of Southampton student had indeed been stabbed, he was already unconscious and died on the scene in handcuffs.

An initial police statement later that morning said: “It was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.”

The Nowak family, still in the early stages of their grief, became concerned that a false narrative was being pushed about their son. According to The Sunday Times, police told the family the next update they planned to publish would include the family tribute, but would infer Henry was the initial aggressor.

Keep in mind – police already had ample evidence that Digwa was a liar at this point, and any evidence of racial abuse of Henry being the aggressor never existed.

Following pushback from the Nowaks, Hampshire Police dropped that section of the statement and simply referred to an “altercation” in the final published release.

Two days later, detectives secretly recorded Digwa speaking in Punjabi to his brother, Gurpreet, who had arrived on the scene shortly after the attack.

The brothers were in the back of a police van being taken to court when Digwa admitted to his brother that he had stabbed Henry, and made no mention of racial abuse. He agreed with Gurpreet that he would claim he had acted in self-defence.

Digwa was jailed for a minimum term of 21 years last week after a jury at Southampton crown court found him guilty of murder.

So aside from the sheer incompetence on display from police officers at the scene, we now also have to question why the police are trying to cover up said incompetence by dragging an innocent man’s name through the mud three days after his murder.

Never underestimate the British police’s ability to panic and dig a deeper hole for itself against all common sense, only succeeding in making the situation far, far worse.

It’s now clear that when Henry’s dad, Mark Nowak, said that he has had to “fight for the truth” about his son, this is what he meant. Fortunately, it seems like he’s been successful.

For the friendly fire that was captured at the Southampton riots that followed Henry’s murder, click HERE.