{"id":831,"date":"2026-06-02T23:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:11:59","slug":"uk-police-under-pressure-after-dying-student-was-handcuffed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"UK police under pressure after dying student was handcuffed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>SOUTHAMPTON, England, June 2 (Reuters) &#8211; British police faced a national backlash on Tuesday over the inflammatory case of an \u200c18-year-old student who was handcuffed as he lay dying from stab wounds after his killer falsely alleged a racist attack.<\/div><div>Henry Nowak died after the knife attack in the southern England city of Southampton last December.<\/div><div>His killer Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old Sikh man, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday, having lied to police at the time that \u200bNowak had assaulted him.<\/div><div>In police bodycam footage, Nowak is seen lying on the street saying &#8220;I&#8217;ve been stabbed&#8221; and &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe&#8221; while an \u200bofficer responds &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you have, mate&#8221;.<\/div><div>Prime Minister Keir Starmer said there were &#8220;serious questions&#8221; to answer, including how &#8220;allegations of racism \u2060informed or fed into the decision-making in that particular case.&#8221;<\/div><div>&#8220;It is impossible to watch that footage and not appreciate that those questions absolutely have \u200bto be answered,&#8221; Starmer told reporters.<\/div><div>Judge William Mousley acknowledged in court on Monday that the case had stirred racial tension across Britain.<\/div><div>Nigel Farage, whose anti-immigration Reform \u200bparty leads opinion polls, said it was an example of the rights of ethnic minorities trumping those of white British people.<\/div><div>&#8220;The fear of being called racist was greater than dealing with Henry Nowak\u2019s murder,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/div><div>&#8220;We should respond to this with pure cold rage.&#8221;<\/div><h2>&#8216;INHUMANE AND DEGRADING&#8217; TREATMENT<\/h2><div>A protest later on Tuesday outside the Southampton \u200bpolice station drew a few hundred people chanting &#8220;I can\u2019t breathe&#8221;, including anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson.<\/div><div>Other protests have been advertised for this week.<\/div><div>Digwa stabbed Nowak with a knife \u200bhe said he was permitted to carry due to exemptions for Sikhs to have ceremonial daggers.<\/div><div>When the police arrived, Digwa said his turban had been knocked off and \u200che had \u2060an injury to his eye.<\/div><div>Nowak&#8217;s family called his treatment by police &#8220;inhumane and degrading&#8221; but in a statement outside court, his father said his death should not be &#8220;used to create further division, hatred or tension&#8221;.<\/div><div>That was echoed by Britain&#8217;s interior minister, Shabana Mahmood, who told parliament on Tuesday that everyone was equal before the law and urged calm during the investigation.<\/div><div>&#8220;We must condemn those who seek personal political profit from tragedy,&#8221; she said, warning that threats against \u200bpolice and inflammatory commentary were worsening the \u200bsituation.<\/div><div>She said public services should \u2060assess only the risk a person poses, not race or religion.<\/div><div>Referencing previous efforts to tackle racism in policing, Mahmood said, &#8220;Whatever changes are made, it is important that nobody over-corrects or course-corrects such that all of us as citizens \u200bare no longer equal before the law.&#8221;<\/div><div>Reform leader Farage sought to draw parallels with the 2020 killing of \u200bGeorge Floyd in the \u2060U.S. which sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. Floyd had said &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe&#8221; as a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes.<\/div><div>Nowak died shortly after being handcuffed by police. Once they realised he was injured, they uncuffed him and started CPR.<\/div><div>The police force, Hampshire Police, has apologised.<\/div><div>In a separate statement on \u2060Tuesday, the \u200bforce said one of the officers involved in the arrest had resigned, while three others \u200bwere being treated as witnesses in the investigation.<\/div><div>A spokesperson for the Attorney General&#8217;s Office said it had received multiple requests to consider raising Digwa&#8217;s 21-year minimum sentence, adding that law officers \u200bhad 28 days from sentencing to make a decision on any changes.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Sarah Young\" class=\"wp-image-830\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a4a681e668926dd364b602acc0c16e58.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Sarah Young<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>X<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=828\">Exclusive: Meta scales back plan for internal mouse-tracking tech, citing staff concerns<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=826\">Morningstar values SpaceX at $780 billion, half its IPO target<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=824\">Exclusive: SpaceX targets $1.75 trillion valuation including greenshoe option in record IPO, sources say<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British police faced a national backlash on Tuesday over the inflammatory case of an \u200c18-year-old student who was handcuffed as he lay dying from stab wounds after his killer falsely alleged a racist attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-united-kingdom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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