Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called for 'pure, cold rage' and blamed 'anti-white prejudice' after a man was jailed over Henry Nowak's murder.
has called for a response of ‘pure, cold rage’ to the murder of Henry Nowak, blaming the 18-year-old’s death on a culture of ‘anti-white prejudice’.
The student was stabbed to death in December by 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, who used a knife he said he carried as a part of his Sikh faith. In bodycam footage released yesterday, police officers – who had been told Digwa was the victim of a racist attack – can be seen handcuffing Henry in his final moments.
When the teenager tells the officers he has been stabbed, one asks him to show where then says: ‘I don’t think you have, mate. ’Police has apologised to his family, who called his treatment ‘inhumane and degrading’ and said they would be carrying their grief ‘every single day’. Cut through political noise and understand how the Westminster chaos actually affects your life with Metro's politics newsletter Alright, Gov?
Sign upthis morning, Farage focused firmly on race, saying the police officers represented a system where the ‘rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities’. The Reform UK leader said Henry had been ‘treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder’.
Black Lives MatterPolice and Crime Commissioner , has written to the Prime Minister calling for an ‘urgent review on the carrying of bladed articles for religious and ceremonial purposes’. : ‘At the moment in this country, Vickrum Digwa carrying that knife, it was lawful for him to do that as long as he carried it in a sheath, which he did, as a Sikh gentlemen he is able to carry that knife.
‘While the Sikh Federation have come out and condemned what he did and said that wasn’t a Kirpan – a much smaller knife carried around the neck – the one that Digwa was carrying was a longer, bigger knife. In an appearance on Newsnight, Labour MP and former police officer Jonathan Hinder said the behaviour of the officers in the video was ‘unfathomable’.
He said: ‘The most troubling thing about that video for me was the apparent indifference, the casual nature with which the police officer says, “I don’t think you have, mate. ” ‘It’s really upsetting to hear. And I think police officers across the country, former police officers like myself, will be as upset as anyone watching that footage.
’Pregnant woman dragged along floor by police by her hair Judge William Mousley KC, in his sentencing remarks, said the officers had ‘honestly believed that there were reasonable grounds for suspecting Henry had committed an offence’ due to Digwa’s lies. He continued: ‘It is the experience of the criminal courts that sometimes, someone arrested and handcuffed will feign injury in the hope they may be released.
‘These police officers were faced with having to make quick decisions in pressurised circumstances about the best way to act. ’Oliver Pritchard-JonesRead more storiesUK Getaway
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