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Outrage grows in UK after teen bleeds to death in handcuffs as attacker accuses him of racism
brusselssignal ^ | May 24 | brusselssignal

Posted on 05/24/2026 2:32:23 AM PDT by RandFan

Public anger has mounted in the United Kingdom over the death of an 18-year-old British student who lay dying in a Southampton street, southern England, after being stabbed four times, only for police officers to handcuff him instead of immediately treating his wounds after his alleged attacker claimed he had been racially abused.

Henry Nowak, a first-year accountancy and finance student at the University of Southampton from Chafford Hundred in Essex, was walking home from a night out with football teammates in the Portswood area in the early hours of December 3, 2025 when he encountered 23-year-old Vickrum Singh Digwa.

They appear to have bumped against each other, with Nowak saying that Digwa “could have moved a little more”.

According to evidence presented at Southampton Crown Court, Nowak had been filming on his phone and jokingly called Digwa “a bad man” after noticing a large ceremonial Sikh knife — a kirpan with a 21cm blade — that Digwa was carrying openly displayed in a sheath over his clothing.

Digwa then allegedly stabbed Nowak four times, including a deep wound to the chest that punctured a lung and wounds to the back of his legs.

As Henry collapsed and bled heavily, Digwa told arriving Hampshire Police officers that he had been racially abused and attacked by a “drunken” man who was “stumbling a little”.

Officers handcuffed the visibly injured teenager.

Bodycam footage shown in court captured Henry protesting that he had been stabbed and struggling to breathe while restrained. He soon lost consciousness and choked to death in a pool of his own blood on the street.

(Excerpt) Read more at brusselssignal.eu ...


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This is getting some coverage now...

Should the bodycam footage be released?

1 posted on 05/24/2026 2:32:23 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Elon Musk has offered to pay for the Lawyers who will sue for this outrageous failure.


2 posted on 05/24/2026 2:39:01 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: RandFan

Unreal.

No common sense.

And all this race crap and people’s feelings being all important has gone to far.

Words don’t stab people in the chest.


3 posted on 05/24/2026 3:12:20 AM PDT by Red6
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Words don’t stab people in the chest.

Exactly.

4 posted on 05/24/2026 3:14:26 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Red6

5 posted on 05/24/2026 3:16:52 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Red6

His legs were slashed as he allegedly scaled a fence to escape, that’s what the court heard


6 posted on 05/24/2026 3:17:32 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: neverevergiveup

Is this what they call “Two-tier” policing carried out to it’s logical EXTREME?

When will the UK wake up and PURGE the evil ones from their midst?


7 posted on 05/24/2026 3:33:53 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: RandFan

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypxz5d3nzo

Per the above, two stab wounds to the back of Nowak’s legs.

And the charge is manslaughter, not murder.

Check out the judge’s rationale


8 posted on 05/24/2026 3:39:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: RandFan

UK... Unrecognizable Kingdom where common sense is ass backwards.


9 posted on 05/24/2026 3:43:24 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it! I want lower taxes.)
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To: RandFan

If I lived in England I’d consider the police enemy number one.


10 posted on 05/24/2026 3:44:17 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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“If I lived in England I’d consider the police enemy number one.”

True, and illegals from countless countries invade the UK because they are ‘freer’ than where they fled from. Tells us everything about illegals here in the US going back to “Operation Wetback” in the Eisenhower days.


11 posted on 05/24/2026 4:04:36 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: RandFan

Glad we ran the bloody bastards off our share of the continent.

Fricking poofs!


12 posted on 05/24/2026 4:18:55 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Islam extends a beggar's palm - whilst hiding the bloody fist! ~ a Minnesotan)
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To: Red6

The English police are a danger to civilization.

They are arresting anyone who speaks ‘offensive language’ but will openly ignore the thousands of rapes of white children and women by muslims.


13 posted on 05/24/2026 4:19:22 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: RandFan

In the ‘good old days’ this sikh murderer would have been taken to Newgate Prison and Hanged, or worse.


14 posted on 05/24/2026 4:24:26 AM PDT by 55Ford (https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.Xy4oYwb)
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To: RandFan

IDIOCRACY Is Real.
RIP Young Man.


15 posted on 05/24/2026 4:31:47 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Resist Satan's Tyranny )
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To: RandFan
Should the bodycam footage be released?

What do you think?
16 posted on 05/24/2026 4:36:20 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: maddog55

Barring civil war, it appears The UK is lost, racing toward 3rd world status and oblivion.


17 posted on 05/24/2026 4:41:47 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: RandFan

The police officers should be fired and then charged with involuntary manslaughter. They’re stupidity and ignorance resulted in this young man’s demise.


18 posted on 05/24/2026 4:46:42 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: RandFan

The officers who cuffed Henry instead of addressing his wounds should already be terminated. I doubt that’s happened.


19 posted on 05/24/2026 4:54:23 AM PDT by Twotone (Sometimes I wrestle with my demons. Sometimes we just snuggle.)
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To: Rlsau1

No one has the fortitude or stomach for what it would take to save the UK for the forgivers that have invaded their once glorious homeland.

There will be rivers of blood spilled either way.

They seem to have resigned themselves to being subjugated and slaughtered by the invaders.

The whole Ethnic British population may as well lay down and offer their throats to the muzzles at this point.


20 posted on 05/24/2026 5:01:10 AM PDT by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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