{"id":696780,"date":"2026-07-17T14:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696780\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:43:13","slug":"mother-of-henry-nowaks-killer-jailed-for-three-years-for-removing-knife-from-murder-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696780\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of Henry Nowak&#8217;s killer jailed for three years for removing knife from murder scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happened to Henry Nowakpublished at 13:48 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:48 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heny Nowak, 18, standing in front of orange, white and black balloons by a window. He has short dark hair and is smiling and is wearing a blue jacket and a black top underneath.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fcd526b9-293f-4665-84c5-3ff308e82c94.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1278\" height=\"718\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Police Handout<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henry Nowak was killed by Vickrum Digwa in December last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Digwa was jailed for life, with a minimum of 21 years, for the murder of the 18-year-old Southampton university student after stabbing him multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In video from the night, Digwa was heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c07220k0n29o\" class=\"ssrcss-ztter6-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consistently lying to police<\/a> as Henry lay dying. Digwa claimed he had been racially attacked, so initially officers failed to believe Henry&#8217;s insistent pleas that he had &#8220;been stabbed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It took officers eight minutes to discover the wound that killed him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the aftermath, there was intense public criticism of police actions in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happened to Henry Nowakpublished at 13:48 BST 13:48 BST Image source, Police Handout Henry Nowak was killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-696780","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696780","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=696780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}