A newly released police transcript has revealed officers did not realise 18-year-old Henry Nowak had suffered a fatal stab wound until about eight minutes after arriving at the scene, despite the teenager repeatedly telling them he had 'been stabbed'.
The transcript, released to the BBC with the permission of Henry's family, records officers' response after the student from Chafford Hundred, Essex, was stabbed in Southampton in December 2025. It shows officers handcuffing Henry after accepting Digwa's false claim that he had been the victim of a racially motivated assault.
