After the life sentence of a twenty-three-year-old for a murder that occurred seven months ago in Southampton, the case does not end and opens a crisis that sees the British police involved in an affair defined as “reverse racism”. The 18-year-old Harry Nowak was stabbed to death seven months ago in a street by a 23-year-old British man, Vickrum Digwa, who in turn had reported to the police that he was the victim of a racist attack, which later proved to be non-existent. Once on site, a paradoxical situation was created: the victim was taken away dying in handcuffs with the attacker left at large.
The video of the stabbing and the conviction
Seven months ago (between October and November 2025), 18-year-old Briton Harry Nowak was stabbed to death on a street in Southampton. The perpetrator of the crime is Vickrum Digwa, a twenty-three-year-old British man of Indian origins. On 1 June 2026, the British court handed down Digwa’s life sentence. During the trial, the murderer’s truth emerged: immediately after the stabbing, Digwa presented himself to the police, falsely declaring himself the victim of a racist attack, effectively misleading the first interventions.
Once they arrived on site, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police officers were misled by Digwa’s statements: as confirmed by the evidence at the trial and by the eyewitnesses who reported having heard “Harry’s last faint moans”, the police handcuffed the young man while he was lying on the pavement, seriously injured and dying and only realizing at a later moment the lethal injuries he had suffered.
This is the most shocking footage of discrimination that you will ever see.
A white boy being handcuffed by police officers more concerned by an accusation of racism than an act of murder.
This must be a turning point. White lives matter too. https://t.co/vb8YcDz6Ih
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) June 1, 2026
During the trial, the police apologized by releasing the footage recorded by the officers’ bodycams. The images clearly show the handcuffs on the wrists of the dying student. The Nowak family made statements to the British media remembering Harry as a “good boy” killed for no reason, the family said they were heartbroken that the young man was “left to die without dignity” due to what they called “degrading and inhumane treatment” by the police.
Accusations of “reverse racism”
The case quickly escalated, fueling protests from members and groups of the English radical right. For Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing anti-immigration Reform UK and “father” of Brexit, Nowak was the victim of “political correctness” and the attitude of the police was the consequence of “a new racism against whites”.
The leaders of the British Sikh community have firmly condemned the incident, while denying that one of the two knives used by Digwa to attack the 18-year-old was “a kirpan”: a ritual knife that some believers wear around their necks.
Meanwhile, the phrase “White Lives Matter” has gone viral on social media, mirroring the “Black Lives Matter” movement born after the brutal murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020.