Jun 5, 2026 – 12.00pmHenry Nowak was in a bubbly mood as he walked back to his student accommodation in Southampton after a couple of drinks with his new university soccer teammates on a typical damp English night.But a chance encounter with Vickrum Digwa, a 22-year-old Sikh, left the teenager dead, his family devastated and a nation in uproar over police handling of racial incidents in multicultural Britain.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Andrew TillettEurope correspondentAndrew Tillett is The Australian Financial Review’s correspondent for Europe, based in London. He was formerly foreign affairs and defence correspondent based in Canberra.Fetching latest articles