Vikrum Digwa is on trial at Southampton Crown Court charged with the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, from Chafford Hundred, in Belmont Road, Southampton, on December 3 2025. The 23-year-old is also charged with carrying a knife in public and his mother, Kiran Kaur, 53, is accused of assisting an offender by removing a weapon from the murder scene.
Another day, another life lost to the fetishisation of 'enrichment'
Nicholas Lobbenberg KC, prosecuting, told the jury the accountancy and finance student was sending Snapchat videos to friends as he was walking home from a night out with his football team when the fatal incident happened. He said former Harris Academy Chafford Hundred pupil Mr Nowak had drunk less than the drink-drive limit during the evening.
Interesting phrasing. If he's prosecuting a rape does he feel the need to emphasise how the victim's skirt was of regulation length?
“His phone captures the moment he met Vikrum Digwa,” Mr Lobbenberg said. “Vikrum Digwa was carrying an extremely large knife in a sheath openly displayed over his clothing.
Ah. but he's a Sikh, and so allowed to carry a decorative knife, right? Yes, Reader and he was, but the murder weapon wasn't this...
The prosecutor said as well as the shastar – the Punjabi word for weapon or knife – which had a 21cm blade, Digwa had a kirpan knife around his neck and under his clothing.
“After he had been stabbed, Henry climbed on to a bin and over a fence to try and escape but he had already been fatally wounded and there was a blood trail on the street which demonstrates that he must have been stabbed before he climbed on to the bin and over the fence.
“Vikrum Digwa chose to aggressively pursue him.”
To kill him, or rob him? He did after all do both.
The prosecutor said a video of the incident was found on Mr Nowak’s phone which was discovered in Digwa’s pocket.
Mr Lobbenberg said the defendant’s father and brother were at the scene shortly afterwards along with his mother, who was captured on video footage taking the knife back to their family home in nearby St Denys Road where it was later found by police.
Cunning enough to remove the murder weapon, not smart enough to destroy it.
The prosecutor said Digwa denied at the scene stabbing Mr Nowak and added: “Vikrum Digwa said he had been racially abused and attacked by a drunken man. Henry protested he hadn’t attacked Vikrum Digwa and he had been stabbed.” Mr Lobbenberg said: “He didn’t seek help for the man he had injured with his sizeable knife, instead he accused him of being a racist and being drunk.”
He added that police initially handcuffed Mr Nowak and started giving him first aid when he then collapsed.
Oh but Ambush, I hear you say, the police didn't know at that point that he'd been stabbed, give them a break, maybe the wounds weren;t visible? Well, the blood certainly was, and some wounds were in the front, not the back as he tried to flee:
Mr Lobbenberg said a post-mortem examination found Mr Nowak suffered four stab wounds and a cut to his jaw, with two of the wounds to the back of his legs.
But for those cops, the magic words had been spoken, so they will be expecting to fear no consequences for handcuffing a dying murder victim. Henry, you see, is white.
The consequences of public disgust will be felt by other cops, when they need the public's help with something, after all...
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