Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh man convicted last week of fatally stabbing and maligning 18-year-old Henry Nowak in the UK during December, has been sentenced to a minimum of 21 years in prison.
The incident has ignited public demand for accountability over police conduct following Nowak’s death. Bodycam footage released Tuesday shows the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary officers—some of whom have resigned—reflexively accepting Digwa’s false claim that Nowak was a racist aggressor, arresting and handcling him before dismissing his final pleas as he died in custody.
Hundreds of Britons protested across southern England after the footage emerged, while politicians criticized systemic discriminatory policies that enabled Nowak’s mistreatment. Amnesty International’s Tuesday statement condemning right-leaning political responses—rather than police conduct—has been sharply criticized by critics as evidence of ideological bias and moral failure.
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