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Tommy Robinson supporters threw chairs, bricks and bottles at police as they tried to get to the spot where Henry Nowak was stabbed to death and then handcuffed.
Despite the student’s father’s pleas that he didn’t want his teen son’s death to be used to create further ‘hatred or tension’, far-right activist Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox turned up for the Justice for Henry march.
Marchers chanted ‘F***ing scum’ at police holding them back after an attempt was made to hold a minute’s silence for the University of Southampton finance student.
His killer 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, lied to police attending the scene of the stabbing in Southampton on December 3 2025 that he had been the victim of a racist attack.
In bodycam footage, police officers – who had been told Digwa was the victim of a racist attack – can be seen handcuffing the teenager in his final moments.
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When Henry tells the officers he has been stabbed, one asks him to show them where before adding: ‘I don’t think you have, mate.’
An officer involved in the Nowak arrest has resigned, Hampshire Police said, with three still serving. But Robinson told a crowd of hundreds he didn’t want them to resign he wanted to see prison time for ‘what they’ve done’.
On Tuesday night, hundreds of people chanted ‘No justice, no peace’ and held up pictures of Henry being handcuffed.
Robinson told the cheering crowd he had been warning of this day for 20 years.
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Despite the killer being Sikh, Robinson said: ‘To be a victim of a race gang, i.e., Pakistani Muslims, will be beating up a white kid, the police will turn up, and they jump on the white kid.
‘What the whole world can see now with Henry’s video is what we all know already. The different treatment of white people compared to non-whites. And we see this spreading to every institution in this country. The crying, the pleading “I can’t breathe” it’s insane.’
To cheers, he said: ‘Get that f***ing family out of Southampton.’
He said police gave ‘executive treatment’ to non-whites. ‘I heard someone say this wasn’t about race, this is about race.’
He is then surrounded by bodyguards as they march through the street. One asks ‘where are we going?’ and one of the organisers shrugs and says ‘just follow the crowd’.
Robinsons, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, poses for selfies outside the SeaCity museum with his supporters, some adorned in St George’s Cross flags.
Others took a knee for Henry – a move mimicking Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd.
Bottles were thrown at police vans blocking activists from getting to the scene where Henry was murdered.
A protester throws a traffic cone at police but falls short striking a man draped in a Union Jack in the head.
Hampshire Police has apologised to his family, who called his treatment ‘inhumane and degrading’ and said they would be carrying their grief ‘every single day’.
Speaking outside court yesterday, Henry’s father said: ‘We do not want Henry’s murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension.’
Nigel Farage weighed in saying the police officers involved in the teenager’s arrest represented a system where the ‘rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities’.
The Reform UK leader said Henry had been ‘treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder’.
He continued: ‘We need a change in culture. Enough of anti-white prejudice.
‘A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives.’
The phrase ‘white lives matter’ was later repeated by Reform MP Suella Braverman in a post on X and the party’s Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick in a question to the Home Secretary.
Speaking this afternoon, Starmer said Farage’s response was the ‘wrong reaction’.
He said: ‘I start my answer to your question through the eyes of the family. They said they do not want this whipped up, they’ve been through the most extraordinary, awful experience.
‘They don’t want this whipped up, and Nigel Farage is completely wrong to use this to try and create division.
‘It would be wrong in any circumstances, but when Henry’s family are saying, ‘Please don’t do that, it’s our son’, then really, as politicians – as human beings, we should start where they start, and that’s where I start.’
Digwa, who was sentenced to life imprisonment to serve a minimum of 21 years for the murder of 18-year-old Henry appeared at Southampton Magistrates’ Court to face six counts of possessing an offensive weapon in a private place.
The alleged weapons are a flick knife, an extendable baton, knuckledusters, a machete, swords and kusaris.
Vickrum appeared in the dock, accompanied by two security officers, wearing a dark suit, blue tie and blue turban.
His father, Moga Singh, 52, and his brother, Gurpreet Digwa, 27, both of Southampton, Hampshire, who are on bail, appeared alongside him to face the same charges while Gurpreet faced four additional charges.
They are possessing an offensive weapon, an asp, in a public place, possessing a prohibited weapon, an air rifle, possessing an axe in a public place and possessing a knife, a kirpan, in a public place.
All of the offences are dated December 4 2025 – the day after the incident in which Mr Nowak was killed.
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