A weapon obsessed man, Vickrum Digwa, is making headlines after reports emerged online revealing that the Sikh man who earlier in 2025 stabbed a UK student to death, has been sentenced to life with a minimum of 21-years in prison
Not sure of the tragic incident? Here’s everything you need to know about the horrific incident as well as the man who committed the horrendous crime.
Who is Vickrum Digwa who stabbed Henry Nowak to death in Southampton, UK
What Exactly Happened?
🇬🇧 Bodycam footage has been released showing Henry Nowak begging for an ambulance before being handcuffed behind his back.
Nowak: "I've been stabbed"
Officer: "I don't think you have mate"
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Back in December 2025, age 23 Sikh Digwa encountered 18-year-old finance student, Henry Nowak, walking back home alone after a night out in Southampton, England.
After a brief altercation, Digwa stabbed the young and unarmed student reportedly 5 times with a 21cm (8-inches) blade.
Reportedly, when the authorities reached the crime scene, at the time, Digwa claimed to be a victim of a racist attack and claimed that he had acted strictly in self-defence.
On May 28th, 2026, the jury rejected Digwa’s self defence pleading and convicted him of murder and crying a blade. Following two days after, on June 1st, 2026, he was given his life time sentence.
In addition, his 53-year-old mother, Kiran Kaur, was also convicted for assisting an offender, as she removed the murder weapon from the scene and sheath it back and hid it at their family home. Her sentence is scheduled for July 17th, 2026.
Who is Vickrum Digwa?
In his final moments, Henry Nowak told police officers nine times “I can’t breathe” and four times that he had been stabbed.
In response police officer dragged him across the gravel, handcuffed and read him his rights.
It was the last thing Henry heard before he died. pic.twitter.com/nIPoPEgOWa
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For the curious, Vickrum Digwa is a 23-year-old Sikh Indian-British man, and is currently behind bars serving his life time sentence with minimum 21 years of imprisonment for the murder of Henry Nowak.
He was born and brought up in Southampton. At the time of writing this article, there is no information about Digwa’s educational background or his qualifications.
There isn’t much information available about Digwa and his family, however, a deeper analysis reveals that on the day of crime, he was helping out his brother with delivering food.
For curious, Digwa doesn’t have any prior criminal conviction history. Furthermore, after a raid took place at their home, Digwa’s father, Moga Singh, who’s 57-years-old and brother Gurpreet Singh, who’s 27-years-old were charged with 6 counts of possessing offensive weapon in a private place.
As per police reports, the weapons recovered from their family home involves a machete, swords, an air rifle, knuckledusters, and an axe.
🇬🇧 This is the knife that Vickrum Digwa used to kill Henry Nowak
He said he carried it as part of his Sikh faith
Sikhs in the UK are allowed to carry knives called Kirpans, but for regular Brits, if they carry a knife the same size, they face a prison sentence
Baptized Sikhs… https://t.co/a80RqLpo6T pic.twitter.com/WJ7956fy51
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 2, 2026
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