Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleVickrum Digwa has been sentenced to life in prison (Hampshire Police)Vickrum Digwa has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years for the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak. Digwa fatally stabbed Mr Nowak with a Sikh ceremonial knife, a kirpan, on 3 December 2025, after telling him “I am a bad man”. He was also convicted of carrying a bladed weapon, while his mother, Kiran Kaur, was found guilty of assisting an offender by removing the weapon from the scene. Digwa falsely claimed Mr Nowak had racially abused him, leading police to handcuff the injured victim before he collapsed and died, prompting an apology from the force and an Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation. Mr Nowak’s mother Lucy described her son as “ambitious, determined and full of life”, saying: “He had his whole life ahead of him, that future has been cruelly taken away.”In fullMan jailed for at least 21 years for fatally stabbing student with Sikh ceremonial knifeThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Man sentenced to life in prison for ‘cruelly’ murdering student in street
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleVickrum Digwa has been sentenced to life in prison (Hampshire Police)Vickrum Digwa has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years for the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak. Digwa fatally stabbed Mr Nowak with a Sikh ceremonial knife, a kirpan, on 3 December 2025, after telling him “I am a bad man”. He was also convicted of carrying a bladed weapon, while his mother, Kiran Kaur, was found guilty of assisting an offender by removing the weapon from the scene. Digwa falsely claimed Mr Nowak had racially abused him, leading police to handcuff the injured victim before he collapsed and died, prompting an apology from the force and an Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation. Mr Nowak’s mother Lucy described her son as “ambitious, determined and full of life”, saying: “He had his whole life ahead of him, that future has been cruelly taken away.”In fullMan jailed for at least 21 years for fatally stabbing student with Sikh ceremonial knifeThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
