Tommy Robinson protests at police station after Henry Nowak bodycam released | News UK

Hundreds of people have organised a protest march outside Southampton police station after Henry Nowak’s killer was sentenced to life in prison.

Despite the student’s father’s pleas that he didn’t want his son’s death to be used to create further ‘hatred or tension’, far-right activist Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox turned up for the Justice for Henry march.

Marchers chanted ‘F***ing scum’ at the police holding them back.

The killer of finance student Mr Nowak, 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, told police attending the scene of the stabbing in Southampton on December 3 2025 that he had been the victim of a racist attack.

In bodycam footage released yesterday, police officers – who had been told Digwa was the victim of a racist attack – can be seen handcuffing the teenager in his final moments.

When Henry tells the officers he has been stabbed, one asks him to show them where before adding: ‘I don’t think you have, mate.’

On Tuesday night, hundreds of people chanted ‘No justice, no peace’ and held up pictures of Henry being handcuffed.

Robinson told the cheering crowd he had been warning of this day for 20 years.

Through a megaphone, he said: ‘To be victim of a race gang, i.e., Pakistani-Muslims, will be beating up a white kid, the police will turn up, and they jump on the white kid.

‘What the whole world can see now with Henry’s video is what we all know already. The different treatment of white people compared to non-whites. And we see this spreading to every institution in this country. The crying, the pleading “I can’t breathe” it’s insane.’

To cheers he said: ‘Get that f***ing family out of Southampton.’

He said police gave ‘executive treatment’ to non-whites. ‘People say this isn’t about race. This is about race.’

Hampshire Police has apologised to his family, who called his treatment ‘inhumane and degrading’ and said they would be carrying their grief ‘every single day’.

Speaking outside court yesterday, Henry’s father said: ‘We do not want Henry’s murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension.’

Nigel Farage weighed in saying the police officers involved in the teenager’s arrest represented a system where the ‘rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities’.

The Reform UK leader said Henry had been ‘treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder’.

He continued: ‘We need a change in culture. Enough of anti-white prejudice.

‘A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives.’

The phrase ‘white lives matter’ was later repeated by Reform MP Suella Braverman in a post on X and the party’s Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick in a question to the Home Secretary.

Speaking this afternoon, Starmer said Farage’s response was the ‘wrong reaction’.

He said: ‘I start my answer to your question through the eyes of the family. They said they do not want this whipped up, they’ve been through the most extraordinary, awful experience.

‘They don’t want this whipped up, and Nigel Farage is completely wrong to use this to try and create division.

‘It would be wrong in any circumstances, but when Henry’s family are saying, ‘Please don’t do that, it’s our son’, then really, as politicians – as human beings, we should start where they start, and that’s where I start.’