The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer has been jailed for three years after removing the murder weapon from the scene following the fatal stabbing of the 18-year-old university student.
Kiran Kaur, 53, was sentenced at Southampton Crown Court after being convicted of assisting an offender. Prosecutors said she took the knife used by her son, Vickrum Digwa, and hid it before police arrived.
Digwa fatally stabbed Nowak with an 8-inch knife at a property in Southampton in December last year before handing the weapon to his mother. Kaur then returned to the family home nearby and concealed the knife, which police recovered a week later after her arrest on the night of the killing.
The case attracted national attention after body-worn camera footage showed officers handcuffing Nowak as he lay dying. It later emerged that police had initially believed Digwa’s claims that he had been the victim of racist abuse, prompting accusations of two-tier policing.
Kaur’s conviction and sentencing mark the latest development in the case, with the court finding that she deliberately sought to help her son evade justice by disposing of key evidence.
