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Nowak family say police failed them multiple times
ITV released footage from 'Dear Henry: Our Fight for Justice - A Tonight Special' that airs on Thursday 5 November at 21:00 GMT
The family of murdered student Henry Nowak have said police gave changing accounts of the events surrounding his death and did not initially disclose they had handcuffed him as he lay dying.
They said police initially portrayed him as the aggressor in the fatal altercation with killer Vickrum Digwa in Southampton on 3 December 2025.
The 18-year-old's stepmother Katie Nowak said Hampshire Police had failed them "multiple times".
The remarks came in a second excerpt released by ITV from the forthcoming documentary Dear Henry: Our Fight For Justice. Chief Constable Alexis Boon has apologised to the family and said that when Henry "needed us most, we failed him".
Nowak, from Chafford Hundred in Essex, was a first-year student at the University of Southampton when he was murdered as he walked home from a night out.
He suffered five stab wounds or cuts from a 21cm (8in) blade, which Digwa later claimed was from a kirpan that he was carrying as part of his Sikh faith.
Henry Nowak, 18, was fatally stabbed in Southampton in December 2025
In police body-worn camera footage that was shown in court, the teenager could be heard repeating, "I've been stabbed", to which an officer replies: "Don't think you have, mate."
The family told ITV News they first saw the footage on the first day of Digwa's trial at Southampton Crown Court.