Why Was Henry Nowak Handcuffed By Police As He Lay Dying?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today, the Prime minister says he “felt sick” as he watched the body cam footage of a student who was handcuffed as he lay dying.
The 18-year-old Southampton student Henry Nowak was handcuffed after Vickrum Digwa, 23, lied to police at the scene of the 2025 stabbing, claiming he had been the victim of a racist attack. Shabana Mahmood described the murder as an "an act of pure evil” and described bodycam footage of officers handcuffing Nowak as "disturbing and tragic".
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| 0:29.1 | about the death of Henry Novak and that body cam footage from the police, which shows his last |
| 0:35.4 | moments, moments which included police officers handcuffing him, |
| 0:39.3 | placing him under arrest and reading him his rights. A piece of video that's quite harrowing |
| 0:44.7 | to listen to, so just a warning that we will play some of it, but we'll mainly be talking about |
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