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British constabulary said Saturday (June 6, 2026) that six much radical person been charged with convulsive upset astatine a protest implicit the stabbing decease of a assemblage pupil who was handcuffed by officers arsenic helium laic dying.
Police were pelted with chairs, cans, rocks, and flares connected Tuesday (June 2) by immoderate of the hundreds of radical attending a protestation successful the English confederate coastal metropolis of Southampton, wherever 18-year-old Henry Nowak was killed successful December.
Many successful Britain and beyond were angered by constabulary body-worn video showing Nowak being handcuffed moments earlier helium became unconscious and subsequently died.
Nowak’s decease has spurred heated debates astir policing, contention and weapon transgression successful the U.K. Nowak’s killer, Vickrum Digwa, who is Sikh, falsely claimed to constabulary that helium was the unfortunate of a racist battle by Nowak, who was white. When constabulary officers arrived, they initially treated the wounded antheral arsenic a fishy earlier noticing his wounded and trying to resuscitate him.
Digwa, 23, was convicted of execution for stabbing Nowak with a Sikh dagger and sentenced this week to beingness successful situation with a minimum 21-year term. But the lawsuit has been seized connected by anti-immigration activists and politicians, who assertion determination is bias against achromatic radical successful the justness system.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called the thoroughfare unit successful absorption to the lawsuit “disgraceful and wholly unacceptable. Authorities person urged the nationalist to heed a telephone by Nowak's household not to usage his decease to disturbance up unit and disorder.
In total, constabulary said, 11 radical person been charged with upset astatine the Southampton protestation this week.
On Friday, Starmer's bureau condemned comments by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, who blamed migration for Nowak's death. Mr. Vance said successful a station connected societal level X that determination should beryllium “righteous anger” successful effect to the murder, which helium blamed successful portion connected “the wide penetration of migrants, galore of whom despise the West and the radical who emotion it.”
In a connection issued successful effect to Mr. Vance’s comments, Starmer’s bureau criticised radical “trying to interfere successful our ideology and seeking to disturbance up part connected our streets.”
