BBC Transcript Reveals Digwa Admitted 3 Stabs in Police Van After Henry Nowak Murder
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 16
BBC Transcript Reveals Digwa Admitted 3 Stabs in Police Van After Henry Nowak Murder
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 16
Summary
Within 36 hours of Henry Nowak’s 3 December 2025 killing, Vickrum Digwa told his brother in a police van that he stabbed the student “one here, towards the face and one on the chest,” calling it his “fault.”
The Punjabi-language transcript, obtained by the BBC from the Crown Prosecution Service, undercuts Digwa’s earlier claim that he was racially attacked and had only pushed and punched Nowak in self-defence.
Gurpreet Digwa repeatedly urged his brother to frame the weapon as a “kirpan” and to pursue a self-defence account, even after Digwa admitted several times that he had stabbed Nowak.
The exchange also showed the brothers praying for themselves and their parents after all four were arrested; their mother was later convicted of assisting an offender by removing the weapon.
Digwa is serving life with a minimum 21 years, is appealing his conviction and sentence, and his term has also been referred to the Court of Appeal as potentially unduly lenient.