Henry Nowak’s Family Reveal What They Are Not Happy With After the Mother of Henry Nowak’s Killer Was Sent to Prison

The family of 18-year-old Henry Nowak have spoken out after the mother of his killer was sentenced to prison for helping her son after the fatal stabbing.

Henry’s family said they were deeply disappointed with the outcome of the case, even though Kiran Kaur has now been jailed. They made it clear they will continue fighting for what they believe is full justice for their son and want investigators to uncover every detail about what happened on the night he was killed.

In their emotional statement, the family said they accepted the court’s decision but felt it did not go far enough. They stressed that they would never stop their campaign for justice and would continue pushing for answers. They also called on the government to introduce changes they believe would honour Henry’s memory and help prevent similar tragedies in the future.

Alongside their statement, the family shared new photographs of Henry as a young boy, remembering him before his life was tragically cut short.

Kiran Kaur, 53, of St Denys Road in Southampton, was sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of assisting an offender. A jury at Southampton Crown Court concluded that she deliberately removed the knife used in the killing from the scene and took it back to the family home instead of leaving it for police investigators.

Her son, 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, had already been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years after being convicted of murdering Henry and carrying a knife in public. Digwa is now attempting to appeal both his conviction and his sentence.

The court heard that Henry, a finance student, had been walking home after spending the evening with friends in December last year when he was attacked. Digwa stabbed him five times, leaving him critically injured.

Instead of calling for medical help, prosecutors said Digwa used his phone to film Henry lying on the ground. When police arrived, he falsely claimed that he had been the victim of a racist attack, attempting to shift suspicion away from himself.

Kiran Kaur later arrived at the scene and took away the knife used in the attack. Prosecutors argued that this decision seriously affected the early stages of the police investigation by removing the key piece of evidence before officers could recover it.

During sentencing, Judge William Mousley KC criticised Kaur’s actions, saying that a responsible parent would have confronted their child and encouraged them to tell the truth and face the consequences of their actions.

Instead, he said, she chose to take the knife back to the family home, where it was placed among a larger collection of ceremonial and other weapons kept in her son’s bedroom. According to the judge, this helped conceal the weapon and delayed investigators from discovering what had happened.

The judge also said her behaviour strengthened her son’s false claim that he had done nothing wrong and was actually the victim. He added that her actions contributed to the distressing situation in which Henry was effectively treated as a suspect while he was still dying from his injuries.

Police eventually recovered the murder weapon around a week later after carefully examining CCTV footage and piecing together what had happened on the night of the killing.

During the trial, prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg KC described Kaur’s role as “crucial” because she removed the knife just as officers were arriving at the scene. He argued that the missing weapon created confusion for the first responding officers, who were faced with what he described as a wall of lies.

He told the court that Kaur never revealed what she had done with the knife, making the investigation significantly more difficult. He said the absence of the weapon meant Henry was left dying frightened, alone and not believed, adding that her actions played a part in that tragic outcome.