Mum of Henry Nowak’s murderer jailed for removing knife from the scene of killing

The mum of Vickrum Digwa who stabbed Henry Nowak to death has been jailed for three years for removing the knife from the crime sceme.

Kiran Kaur was found to have assissted her son on the night of the murder on December 3 2025 by taking the weapon back to the nearby family home.

Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years on June 1 for the murder of the 18-year-old finance student, after falsely claiming Mr Nowak had racially abused him.

Sentencing Kaur, Judge William Mousley KC said: ‘A responsible parent would have challenged their son over their actions and encourage them to do the right thing.

‘Instead you took the knife home and put it with a larger collection of ceremonial and other weapons in your son’s bedroom.

‘That would have helped to conceal what it had been used for.’

Digwa, 23, was in the back of a prison van for hours with his brother Gurpreet Digwa, 27, when he admitted that he had stabbed Henry.

He had previously lied to police at the scene, saying he had been ‘racially attacked’, but less than two days later, he admitted to stabbing the 18-year-old student.

Southampton Crown Court previously heard, during his murder trial, that Digwa kept an arsenal of Sikh knives in the bedroom that he shared with his brother.

Digwa, who is ‘skilled’ with weapons as he has trained with them from a young age, used a kirpan to murder Henry, a finance student, on his way home from a night out by stabbing him five times, with a fatal 8cm deep wound to his chest.

The Nihang Sikh even filmed his victim as he tried to escape by jumping over a fence in Southampton, leaving behind a trail of blood.

Digwa told ‘wicked lies’ of a racist attack to the police when they arrived to get Henry handcuffed and arrested while he was dying.

Henry, studying at the University of Southampton, died around 57 minutes after he was handcuffed.

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