Vickrum Digwa’s Mother Jailed After Doing What Judge Said No Responsible Parent Should Do
Kiran Kaur, the mother of convicted murderer Vickrum Digwa, has been sentenced to three years in prison after helping her son cover up evidence following the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Henry Nowak.
She was sentenced at Southampton Crown Court after being found guilty of assisting an offender by removing the murder weapon from the scene and taking it back to the family’s home on the night of the killing, December 3, 2025.
The court heard that after Henry was fatally stabbed, Kaur took the knife used in the attack away from the scene instead of leaving it for police investigators.
Prosecutors said her actions helped conceal vital evidence and made it more difficult for officers investigating the murder. Jurors found the 53-year-old, who lives on St Denys Road in Southampton, guilty on July 17 after hearing the full details of the case.
Her son, Vickrum Digwa, 23, had already been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years for murdering Henry Nowak. During his trial, Digwa falsely claimed that the teenager had racially abused him before the attack, but the jury rejected his account and found him guilty of murder.
While sentencing Kaur, Judge William Mousley KC strongly criticised her actions, saying that any responsible parent would have encouraged their child to accept responsibility for such a serious crime rather than helping to hide evidence.
He said that instead of doing the right thing, she removed the knife from the scene and took it home, where it was placed among a larger collection of ceremonial and other weapons kept in her son’s bedroom.
The judge told Kaur that by hiding the knife in the house, she had helped conceal the fact that it had been used in the killing. He made it clear that her decision to protect her son after the attack had seriously obstructed the course of justice.
The three-year prison sentence reflects the seriousness of helping an offender after a murder, with the court finding that Kaur deliberately acted to remove key evidence rather than assisting the police investigation.
Her actions, the judge said, were a significant attempt to hide the truth about what had happened on the night Henry Nowak lost his life.
