New footage shows the moment murderer Vickrum Digwa told his mother to take the knife he used to stab Henry Nowak to death away from the crime scene.
The Crown Prosecution Service released the video after Digwa’s mother, Kiran Kaur, was jailed for three years at Southampton Crown Court last week for assisting an offender.
The 53-year-old, of St Denys Road, Southampton, had been found guilty by jurors in May after taking the weapon back to the family home nearby on the night of the murder on December 3 2025.
Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years on June 1 for the murder of the 18-year-old finance student, after falsely claiming Mr Nowak had racially abused him.
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In the video clip taken on Digwa’s phone, which is pointed at the ground, he can be heard speaking to Kaur in Punjabi asking her to take away the weapon.
A transcript released by the CPS details how Digwa is speaking in Punjabi and then said: “Take this”, which they say was referring to the knife.
Vickrum Digwa was jailed at Southampton Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 21 years for the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak (Hampshire Police/PA)PA MediaSentencing Kaur on July 17, Judge William Mousley KC said when Digwa told her to take the murder weapon away, “by then you knew or believed that he had stabbed and injured Henry”.
He also told her: “A responsible parent would have challenged their son over their actions and encourage them to do the right thing.”
Instead, Kaur took the knife home and put it with a “larger collection of ceremonial and other weapons in your son’s bedroom”, which would have helped to conceal its use because she wanted him to “avoid being caught”, the judge said.
Henry Nowak was stabbed to death with a Sikh kirpan ceremonial knife five times (Hampshire Police/PA)PA MediaThe judge said her actions at Belmont Road before and after taking the dagger away “added to your son’s pretence that he had done nothing wrong and that he was the victim”.
He said her role added to the “degradation of Henry being arrested when he was dying”.
Following her sentencing, Mr Nowak’s family said in a statement they remain “incredibly disappointed” and said they will “never give up in our campaign for justice for Henry”.
The statement added: “Our focus is on making sure the ongoing investigations leave no stone unturned as we fight for the full truth about what happened last December, and we continue to urge the Government to deliver the changes our wonderful son deserves.”
In the wake of Digwa’s case, anger erupted following the release of police body-worn video showing Mr Nowak, from Chafford Hundred, Essex, being placed in handcuffs moments before he became unconscious and subsequently died.