Henry Nowak: Release the Footage Now

The murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak is both a tragedy and the ultimate indictment of British policing in 2026. A young man enjoying a night out with his friends in the run-up to Christmas, stabbed five times while attempting to flee from his assailant, including a fatal wound to his chest. Lying in agony on a Southampton street, he cries out for help from the authorities: “I’ve been stabbed”, “I can’t breathe”. Unfortunately for Nowak, three things conspired against him: he was white, his attacker, Vickrum Digwa, was not, and the police completely swallowed the bullshit ‘defence’ that Nowak had “racially abused” him. The officers slap handcuffs on the victim, and precious minutes tick away while Henry drowns in his own blood. He dies at the scene. Digwa is later convicted of murder, while his mother gets done for hiding the murder weapon. And that, ladies and gentlemen, if we are to believe the authorities, should be the end of the matter. 

It isn’t. Not by a long shot. 

In light of the public outcry (and deafening silence from the habitually genuflecting sycophants at Westminster), Hampshire Police have issued a half-hearted apology. “I am deeply sorry that Henry could not be saved” droned Deputy Chief Constable Robert France, while continually blaming the obstruction of the killer, and the “complex situation” the officers found themselves in. Sorry DCC France may be, but not nearly sorry enough to release the full bodycam footage. This refusal stinks of a cover-up, and makes the situation ten times worse. 

The George Floyd overtones are striking, because this is the exact opposite of the police brutality narrative we’ve been force-fed for decades; brutality which it now seems, is reserved for whites alone. Can you imagine the political, media and corporate outcry if the races were reversed? A white man stabs a minority kid, claims racist provocation, and police cuff the dying victim? Murals, inquiries, ministerial resignations if not sackings, wall-to-wall BBC outrage, and endless sermons about systemic racism would be de rigueur. Starmer’s knees, I daresay, would require more Savlon than he gets through during his Ukrainian visits. But in Nowak’s case, a mumbled apology and footage firmly off the table. Case closed. 

The long and short of it is this: if you are white, in Britain you are not only now a second-class citizen – but in the event of an attack on your life, the police are likely to be on the side of your assailant. 

It’s hard to pretend the police have not been perfectly clear in their disdain for white Brits either. It’s straight white males, after all, refused employment with the police, in favour of diversity quotas. It’s white pensioners arrested for social media posts, when they notice the non-white criminal ‘gentrification’ of their neighbourhoods. It’s “white slags” and “paki-shaggers” ignored, mocked, and even handed over to their grooming gang abusers, for the sake of ‘community cohesion’. It’s white Brits jailed when rightly aggrieved over Southport, while pro-Palestine, BLM, and other non-white rioters get kid gloves. It’s in the mosques, not the churches, where police sit idly by as death threats rain down on white children. It’s six officers dragging a mentally handicapped white girl from her home because she said one looked like her “lesbian nana”, while in Harehills, police snatched four children from a Roma family, only to hand them straight back after the community rioted, torched a bus and flipped police cars. It’s the systematic refusal to record or respond to ‘hate crime’, when whites are the victims. The British people should now know, if they didn’t before: the police are not their friend; they’re the enemy.

Particularly concerning in this case, are the widespread reports that some or all of the officers in attendance were female, and that Nowak was laughed at when he claimed he had been stabbed. This raises serious questions about the deployment of female officers in the frontline, and their apparent susceptibility to the woke nonsense drilled into them in training. When seconds count between life and death, physical reality and clear-headed priorities matter more than ticking diversity boxes.

It gets darker still, however. The Hampshire Police ‘apology’ is dripping with excuses and disingenuous statements, if not downright lies. Let’s dissect Deputy Chief Constable France’s masterclass in doublespeak, shall we? 

First up, we have the obligatory Sadiq Khan tribute quote: “I cannot begin to imagine what Henry’s family have suffered.” No one gives a damn what you can imagine, mate. Spare us the performative empathy.

Then comes the expert use of the passive voice: “I am deeply sorry that Henry could not be saved. I’m sorry that in the moments before he lost consciousness, he had been handcuffed and arrested.” Who exactly did the handcuffing? The officers? Or did it just magically happen? 

In what must be a global first in policing history, France makes great play of the fact that the killer lied to them – as though this were some unforeseeable eventuality. Perhaps a basic assessment could have been made: party A standing there completely unharmed, party B lying in a pool of his own blood repeatedly saying “I’ve been stabbed” and “I can’t breathe”?

He acknowledges there were “many questions about what happened on the night of Wednesday the 3rd of December 2025”, as if to suggest those awkward questions should now quietly disappear. The attending officers, we are told, “sought to take control of a complex situation.” Indeed, fatal stabbings must be terribly complicated these days.

And based on what they had been told, they slapped the bleeding boy in handcuffs. I wonder if this is standard procedure for alleged hurty words, and, if so, why do we not see this rolled out across the board?

Not to worry though, “within three minutes of arriving, the officers realised the severity of Nowak’s condition.” Three minutes. The difference between life and death, apparently acceptable in modern British policing.

“The pathologist evidence at court was clear. Sadly, nothing we could have done that night would have saved him.” His wound (singular?) was “difficult to find” and caused internal bleeding. Funny that – he was stabbed five times with an eight-inch blade, including a fatal chest wound. The external blood must have been somewhat noticeable.

Finally, the classic deflection: the matter has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct and “we are committed to acting on their findings.” In other words, process has been followed. Keir Starmer would be proud. Meanwhile, it is notable that, as ever with alleged public servants, the comments on YouTube are switched off; this from a police force whose motto is “Let’s talk”.

Despicable. 

The continued refusal to release the full bodycam footage speaks volumes. Such a position cannot be allowed to stand. Are the police a public service that serves the public, or an activist body enforcing a particular ideology? Why are they not being forced to reveal it? Community cohesion, presumably? Doesn’t that rather suggest we already know what’s on it: that it contradicts their version of events, might spark unrest, or require jailing too many uppity white Brits? Why is there no intervention from the government? The Home Secretary and even the Prime Minister remain silent. They’d move heaven and earth for a George Floyd, Chris Kaba or Mark Duggan. We all know why they won’t here.

The British police have not always been so reticent to throw officers under the bus, provided the correct narrative was enforced. Who can forget the case of Olympic sprinter Bianca Williams, who mysteriously claimed to have been ‘racially profiled’ while driving a car with tinted windows, and refusing to stop? A grovelling apology was promptly issued by then MET Chief, Cressida Dick, alongside the dismissal of the officers in question – officers who were subsequently reinstated and exonerated, with much less fanfare. Again, we know only too well why the officers are being protected in the case of Nowak. 

We must ask: who is making this decision? Presumably, initially at least, this was a judgement by Hampshire Police. But now, there is no excuse for those in government not to do the right thing. Call me a cynic, but just like Southport, I smell the procedural hands of Keir Starmer all over this. 

In defence of the downtrodden, the political Left has long argued the police should be defunded or disbanded. For white people in Britain today, that case is starting to write itself. It is laudable to see some locals protesting outside the cop shop in Southampton, but we should go further. In Southampton at least, every resident should refuse to pay the police precept of council tax en masse, and arguably across the country as a whole, until this footage is made public. Starve the beast until it remembers who it serves.

For the record, I don’t give a damn how racist anyone is, any more than I care about their other unpalatable private thoughts. Thoughts are not crimes, and “hate speech” is nothing more than speech one’s political enemies disagree with. The police’s job begins at actual criminal acts – traditionally the point where the thin blue line is supposed to step in and protect the innocent.

If the Old Bill are suddenly relieved of duty the moment the sacred ‘R’ word is uttered, then to all intents and purposes they are now the enemy of white Britain.

Henry Nowak didn’t just die in handcuffs. He died because, in modern Britain, police brutality is reserved for whites only, and the thin blue line has chosen its side.

God help us all.

And that’s quite a statement, coming from an atheist.

Frank Haviland is the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West and The Frank Report Substack.

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