Newly Released Video shows moment Vikrum Digwa hands his mum knife he used to stab Henry Nowak
New video evidence released by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has revealed the moment convicted murderer Vickrum Digwa handed the knife he used to kill 18-year-old Henry Nowak to his mother and told her to remove it from the scene. Prosecutors said the footage was recorded on Digwa’s own phone shortly after the fatal stabbing and became an important piece of evidence during the case.
Digwa’s mother, 53-year-old Kiran Kaur, was sentenced to three years in prison at Southampton Crown Court after being found guilty of helping an offender. A jury convicted her in May after hearing that she took the murder weapon away from the scene and carried it back to the family home following the attack on December 3, 2025.
Her son, Vickrum Digwa, who was 23 at the time, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years on June 1 after being found guilty of murdering finance student Henry Nowak. During the trial, Digwa claimed that Mr. Nowak had racially abused him, but the court rejected that version of events and convicted him of murder.
The newly released video lasts only about 20 seconds, but prosecutors said it clearly captures Digwa speaking to his mother in Punjabi and telling her to take away the knife. According to a transcript released by the CPS, Digwa can be heard instructing his mother to “take this,” with prosecutors explaining that he was referring to the knife used in the deadly attack.
When sentencing Kaur, Judge William Mousley KC said she already knew, or at least believed, that her son had stabbed Henry by the time he handed her the weapon. The judge said that instead of encouraging her son to admit what he had done or contact the police, she chose to help him hide the evidence.
The judge told Kaur that a responsible parent would have challenged their child over such a serious crime and urged them to do the right thing. Instead, she took the knife home and hid it among a larger collection of ceremonial and other weapons kept in her son’s bedroom. The judge said this made it more difficult for investigators to immediately link the weapon to the killing and showed she wanted her son to avoid being caught.
The court also heard that Kaur’s actions before and after removing the knife helped support her son’s false claim that he had done nothing wrong and that he was actually the victim. Judge Mousley said her behaviour contributed to the deeply upsetting situation in which Henry Nowak was treated as a suspect and arrested while he was still dying from his injuries.
Prosecutors said the case highlights how helping someone hide evidence after a serious crime can have severe legal consequences. Both Digwa and his mother are now serving prison sentences for their roles in the events that followed the fatal stabbing of the young finance student.
