Mother of Henry Nowak’s murderer jailed for removing knife from scene

Kiran Kaur, 53, was found guilty of assisting an offender by removing a weapon from the scene of the murder. Photograph: Hampshire police/PA

The mother of Vickrum Digwa, the murderer whose false claims of racism against his victim, Henry Nowak, triggered riots in Southampton, has been jailed for removing a knife from the scene of the killing.

Appearing at Southampton crown court, Kiran Kaur, 53, was jailed for three years for assisting an offender by taking the knife from where her son had murdered Nowak on 3 December 2025 back to her family home.