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Vickrum Digwa's parent Kiran Kaur was recovered blameworthy of assisting an offender
ByCurtis LancasterSouth of England and Dave GilyeatSouth of England
The parent Henry Nowak's slayer has been jailed for 3 years for removing the execution limb from the country of the crime.
Vickrum Digwa utilized a 21cm (8in) leaf to termination the 18-year-old student, who was walking location from a nighttime retired successful Southampton connected 3 December. He was jailed for life successful June with a minimum of 21 years.
Kiran Kaur, 53, of St Denys Road, Southampton, was recovered blameworthy astatine Southampton Crown Court successful May of assisting an offender.
Judge William Mousley KC told Kaur astatine her sentencing "a liable genitor would person challenged their son" and person asked their kid to "do the close thing".
"You took the weapon and enactment it astatine location with different weapons successful your son's bedroom," helium told her.
By putting it among "a larger postulation of ceremonial and different weapons" it would person "helped to conceal what it had been utilized for" due to the fact that she wanted him "to debar being caught", the justice said.
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Vickrum Digwa murdered Southampton assemblage student, Henry Nowak, connected 3 December 2025
Digwa gave the weapon to his parent and it was aboriginal recovered by constabulary astatine their household location on with much than 20 different weapons.
Prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg described her actions arsenic "criminality of the highest order" and her relation arsenic "crucial" erstwhile it came to removing the knife.
He told the tribunal it was not recovered by constabulary until 7 days aft the onslaught took place.
But defence barrister Mark Watson called it a "spontaneous enactment carried retired successful a substance of moments" and an "instinctive tendency to support her child".
Kelly Newman, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said aft the sentencing: "Those who question to assistance murderers evade justness should beryllium successful nary uncertainty that they excessively volition beryllium held accountable for their actions."
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The apprehension and handcuffing of Henry Nowak arsenic helium laic dying prompted aggravated scrutiny of constabulary actions
Nowak was handcuffed by constabulary arsenic helium laic dying astatine the country aft Digwa lied, claiming helium had been racially abused by the teen and had acted successful self-defence.
He told officers his turban had been knocked disconnected and that helium had been injured.
Bodycam footage released by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, with the family's permission, showed officers arriving astatine the country and speaking to Digwa and others.
Nowak, who is seen connected the crushed successful the video, tin beryllium heard saying "I've been stabbed" and "I can't breathe" aggregate times.
The footage shows officers turning Nowak onto his broadside and handcuffing his hands down his back, and aft a mates of minutes helium becomes unresponsive.
An serviceman proceeds to archer him helium is nether apprehension for assault.
Two constabulary officers are being investigated for imaginable gross misconduct.
Nowak, from Chafford Hundred successful Essex, was a first-year pupil astatine the University of Southampton. He had been walking backmost to his accommodation aft drinking to a level that was beneath the drink-drive limit, the proceedings heard.
The prosecution said helium was stabbed 5 times, including doubly successful the backmost of his legs, erstwhile successful the look and a fatal coiled to the chest.
Digwa said helium carried the leaf arsenic portion of his Sikh faith, though the Sikh Federation said the leaf helium utilized was not a spiritual knife, known arsenic a kirpan.
A transcript obtained by the BBC recorded successful the backmost of a constabulary van has Digwa admitting to his brother, Gurpreet, that helium had stabbed the teen aggregate times.
Digwa, his member and his begetter person pleaded not blameworthy to aggregate weapons offence charges.
Protests erupted successful Southampton aft the constabulary bodycam footage was released.
More than 20 radical person truthful acold been sentenced implicit the disorder, during which 12 constabulary officers and a constabulary canine were injured.
The lawyer general's bureau has since referred Digwa's condemnation to the Court of Appeal nether the unduly lenient condemnation scheme. Digwa himself is seeking to appeal against his condemnation and sentence.
A full inquest into Henry Nowak's death is owed to beryllium held successful Winchester adjacent year.
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