British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of ignoring the wishes of a murdered 18-year-old boy’s family by calling for “rage” in response to his death.
Starmer’s comments, delivered in parliament on Wednesday, came after a riot on Tuesday night in Southampton, a city on England’s south coast, which saw far-right protesters and known neo-Nazis clash with police.
The riot was sparked in part by inflammatory rhetoric in response to the case of Henry Nowak, 18, who was stabbed to death in Southampton in December last year by Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old British Sikh man. Last week, Digwa was convicted of murder by a jury.
Police body camera footage that has been circulating online shows a police officer handcuffing Nowak, after Digwa falsely accused the 18-year-old of assaulting him.
Nowak tells the police officer repeatedly that he’s been stabbed, while the officer says, “I don’t think you have.” “I can’t breathe,” Nowak says, as the police officer puts Nowak's hands behind his back. The 18-year-old died at the scene.
