Michael Murphy: How Britain’s anti-racism crusade caused in the death of an innocent teen

“LONDON — "Please, brother, I can’t breathe." Those were the last words Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old student at the University of Southampton, uttered before he died. Nowak was returning from a night out when he came across Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old Sikh man, who murdered him with a 21-centemetre-long ceremonial dagger in December 2025. Digwa stabbed Nowak five times as he attempted to flee, including a fatal blow to the chest, which punctured a lung and an artery. This violence appears to have been Digwa’s response to Nowak "cheekily," as the judge put it, asking him if he was "a bad man." Read More

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