Lammy Rebukes Vance Over 18-Year-Old's Murder as UK Says 23-Year-Old Killer Was British
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Updated · The Associated Press · Jun 7
Lammy Rebukes Vance Over 18-Year-Old's Murder as UK Says 23-Year-Old Killer Was British
3 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · Jun 7
Summary
David Lammy said he used a “robust” call with JD Vance on Saturday to reject the vice president’s claim that immigration was to blame for Henry Nowak’s killing.
Vance had posted Friday that the case should fuel “righteous anger” over a “mass invasion of migrants,” but Lammy said the convicted attacker, Vickrum Digwa, was British and the murder “has got nothing to do with mass migration.”
Digwa, 23, was sentenced this week to life with a minimum 21 years for stabbing 18-year-old Nowak in Southampton in December with an 8-inch Sikh dagger.
The case has already inflamed tensions: Southampton police were pelted with chairs, cans, rocks and flares after a protest attended by far-right figures, and Keir Starmer’s office accused outsiders of stirring division.
Mark Nowak, the victim’s father, has said the death was not about racism or religion and should lead to safer streets, while police conduct at the scene remains under investigation.