It is now known that, two days after the murder, British police overheard Vickrum Digwa admitting to his brother that he had killed Nowak.
The Nowak family were not informed of this.
At a crucial stage, Hampshire Police wished to issue a statement to counter what they described as “misinformation” in the Henry Nowak murder case. Yet it was the police themselves who were providing misinformation to the murder victim’s family.
The police are now cast in a poor light as it emerges that, following the murder of Henry Nowak, they attempted to intervene during the killer’s trial in a highly unusual move, writes The Sunday Times.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police attempted to publish a statement to counter what they described as “misinformation” circulating online while the trial of Vickrum Digwa was at a critical stage.
However, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) warned the force that such a step could risk undermining the “integrity” of the case.
This revelation increases the pressure on an already heavily criticised police force and on Chief Constable Alexis Boon. The conduct of the force’s own officers came under scrutiny during the trial.
Even three days after the murder, the local police still sought to portray Nowak as the aggressor. This was, moreover, one day after they had heard Digwa admit to the killing in a conversation with his brother.
The Sikh Vickrum Digwa (23) stabbed Nowak to death after a night out in Southampton three weeks before Christmas. The case has provoked strong reactions, particularly in England but also elsewhere in Europe.
The police realised fairly quickly that Digwa was lying, but by then Nowak was already dead. This information does not appear to have been passed on immediately to the grieving Nowak family.
The Nowak family, devastated by grief, began to fear that a false account of the case involving their son was being circulated.
It emerges that the police informed the family that the next update they planned to publish—which would include the Nowak family’s tribute—would once again give the impression that he had been the one who started the altercation.
Digwa was treated more leniently than the murder victim and was not placed in handcuffs.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch describes the affair as “institutional incompetence” and accuses police leadership of having “allowed these unfortunate operating conditions” to take hold.
“It is police chiefs, who are operationally independent of the government, who must take responsibility for allowing this to happen,” she wrote on Saturday in The Times.
Badenoch believes that inadequate police training bears much of the blame. The intense focus on “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) is undoubtedly among the suspected causes.
There is much to suggest that “Two-Tier Keir” may soon be finished, but as Document has written previously: Starmer is resilient and is unlikely to give up easily.
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Badenoch further stated:
“The Black Lives Matter movement … made institutions more fearful, more race-conscious and more divided. Now we are seeing the other side of the coin: a White Lives Matter movement that has grown out of the same racial grievance. We will not defeat identity politics by creating a mirror image of it.”