{"id":615382,"date":"2026-06-01T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615382\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:43:10","slug":"vickrum-digwa-being-sentenced-for-murdering-henry-nowak-in-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615382\/","title":{"rendered":"Vickrum Digwa being sentenced for murdering Henry Nowak in Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;There is nothing I can do to bring him back&#8217;published at 14:22 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:22 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henry Nowak&#8217;s father Mark Nowak is the first to address the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a victim personal statement, he speaks of being &#8220;tormented&#8221; by thoughts of his son&#8217;s final moments and the &#8220;horrific pain&#8221; he felt over the death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t help Henry in his final moments and there is nothing I can do to bring him back,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He had been dead for more than 24 hours before I knew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That night I lay on his bed hugging his pillows, wanting and needing to be close to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Nowak, who wears glasses and a dark suit, speaks of &#8220;sitting in a mortuary holding his hand, the same hand I held when he was born&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says Henry was an &#8220;incredible brother&#8221; to his three siblings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;There is nothing I can do to bring him back&#8217;published at 14:22 BST 14:22 BST Henry Nowak&#8217;s father&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}