Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside Southampton police station after footage of Henry Nowak’s arrest sparked widespread backlash.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the bodycam footage of Nowak, 18, in handcuffs after being brutally knifed by Vickrum Digwa last December made him ‘feel sick’.
It showed the teenager desperately telling officers four times, ‘I’ve been stabbed’, to which one policeman replied: ‘I don’t think you have mate’.
Henry would succumb to his stab wounds moments later, and the footage – released last night after Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years – has since sparked fury.
In a video posted to social media on Tuesday, activist Tommy Robinson described it as ‘horrific’ while calling on supporters to attend a protest outside Southampton police station this evening.
And demonstrators arrived in their numbers, with pictures and clips shared online showing crowds carrying Union Jacks descending upon the station just before 6pm.
Some held banners reading ‘Save our kids’, while others paraded pictures of Novak with the caption: ‘I can’t breathe’.
A large police presence was put in place outside the station, as some members of the crowd donned T-shirts reading: ‘RIP Henry Nowak’.
It came after Hampshire Police wasforced to apologise to Henry’s family for the video, with the conduct of the officers involved being examined by a police watchdog.
