Henry Nowak’s killer has sentence extended by court of appeal

The Court of Appeal has increased Vickrum Digwa’s minimum term for murdering 18-year-old Henry Nowak, ruling that the original sentence was unduly lenient. After an appeal by Attorney General Ellie Reeves, the court replaced the 21-year minimum with 25 years, less time already spent on remand.

Digwa, 23, stabbed Nowak repeatedly with a large dagger in Southampton in December last year, then filmed him as he lay dying and falsely claimed he had been racially abused. The court said the original sentence did not properly reflect the use of a weapon against an unarmed man, the treatment of the victim and efforts to obstruct justice. Digwa’s mother was jailed for three years for helping conceal the knife.