Kiran Kaur due for early release after helping conceal murder weapon
Kiran Kaur, whose son was convicted of murdering 18-year-old Henry Nowak, is due to leave prison early in December under Labour’s expanded early release scheme. She was jailed for three years for assisting an offender after removing the weapon used in the killing, and is expected to be eligible after serving a third of her sentence.
Vickrum Digwa stabbed Nowak in Southampton on 3 December last year and was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 21 years. Kaur had spent about seven months on remand before sentencing; the murder weapon was not found until seven days after the attack. She is due to appeal her sentence on 5 November, and it is unclear whether she will face deportation proceedings.
- Kiran Kaur is expected to be released in December.
- She was jailed for removing her son’s murder weapon.
- Her three-year sentence is subject to an appeal.
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Henry Nowak was 18 when he was stabbed in Southampton on 3 December last year. Vickrum Digwa, Kiran Kaur’s son, was convicted of his murder and sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of 21 years.
Kaur was convicted of assisting an offender after removing the knife used in the killing; it was found seven days after the attack. Her case sits within a wider policy that allows some prisoners to be released before the end of their sentence, subject to eligibility rules.
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The case for
Early release can be justified as a proportionate part of a sentence, especially where eligibility follows time already spent on remand and the prisoner has served the required portion of the term. Supporters may argue that consistent release rules aid rehabilitation and prison management, while an appeal provides a route to challenge whether the sentence was appropriate.
The case against
Concealing the weapon obstructed efforts to investigate a killing, and early release may seem to give too little weight to that harm and to the seriousness of the offence. Those who oppose the scheme’s application here may argue that release after a third of the sentence weakens public confidence and that decisions should reflect the particular circumstances of the crime as well as general prison policy.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Mother of Henry Nowak’s killer is to be freed from prison under Labour’s early release scheme – after she was locked up for removing murder weapon”.