'Incredibly disappointed': Henry Nowak's family release statement after killer's mother jailed

The family of Henry Nowak have released a statement after his killer's mother was jailed for three years for assisting an offender.

Kiran Kaur's son Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life for stabbing 18-year-old Mr Nowak to death in December.

She was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison after removing the knife from the scene and taking it back to the nearby family home.

In a statement following the sentencing, Mr Nowak's family said: "While we accept today's sentencing decision, nonetheless we remain incredibly disappointed.

"We will never give up in our campaign for justice for Henry. Our focus is on making sure the ongoing investigations leave no stone unturned as we fight for the full truth about what happened last December, and we continue to urge the government to deliver the changes our wonderful son deserves."

Mr Nowak's family also released new photos of him when he was a young boy.

Kaur, 53, of St Denys Road, Southampton, was found guilty at Southampton Crown Court of assisting an offender in May.

She was found guilty by the jurors who also convicted Digwa of murder and carrying a knife in public.

Her son was jailed for life, with a minimum term of 21 years, in June. He is seeking to appeal against the conviction and sentence.

A court heard he stabbed finance student Henry, who had been on the way home from a night out with friends, five times in December last year.

Rather than calling an ambulance, he filmed Henry as he lay on the floor, before claiming to have been the victim of a racial attack when police arrived.

His mother, Kiran, also arrived at the scene and removed the knife he had used.

Judge William Mousley KC, sentencing Kaur, said: "A responsible parent would have challenged their son over their actions and encourage them to do the right thing.

"Instead you took the knife home and put it with a larger collection of ceremonial and other weapons in your son's bedroom.

"That would have helped to conceal what it had been used for."

The judge said her actions before and after taking the dagger away "added to your son's pretence that he had done nothing wrong and that he was the victim".

He added that her role added to the "degradation of Henry being arrested when he was dying".

The court heard the knife was recovered after police studied CCTV and the murder weapon was found about a week after Mr Nowak was killed.

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Prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg KC told the court during the trial her role was "crucial" in removing the murder weapon at a time the police were coming to the scene.

He said: "The absence of a weapon at the scene caused by her actions hampered the police attending who were confronted with a wall of lies. She chose not to disclose what she had done.

"Absence of that weapon led to Henry dying terrified, alone and disbelieved, her actions contributed to this."

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