{"id":479221,"date":"2026-06-02T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479221\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:40:10","slug":"henry-nowaks-family-deserve-answers-after-disturbing-and-tragic-footage-home-secretary-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479221\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Nowak&#8217;s family deserve answers after &#8216;disturbing and tragic&#8217; footage, home secretary says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police &#8216;must treat everyone equally  regardless of ethnicity&#8217; &#8211; Downing Streetpublished at 13:20 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:20 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Downing Street has said the police \u201cmust treat everyone equally regardless of ethnicity\u201d, following the case of Henry Nowak, but insists \u201cthere&#8217;s no such thing as two-tier policing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prime minister\u2019s official spokesperson said it was \u201cabsolutely right\u201d that the IOPC investigation looks at the police response, and this \u201cmust be done as quickly as possible and make sure answers are delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt\u2019s an awful, shocking and harrowing case that\u2019s clearly affected not just the family of Henry Nowak and the community around him but the nation as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is understood the prime minister has watched the footage several times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Downing Street said the government was not looking at the rules around the exception of ceremonial knives on religious grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spokesperson said there are &#8220;longstanding legal protections in place&#8221; for Sikhs, but the laws are very clear that &#8220;any bladed item used to threaten or harm others are illegal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police &#8216;must treat everyone equally regardless of ethnicity&#8217; &#8211; Downing Streetpublished at 13:20 BST 13:20 BST Downing Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-479221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}