Killer's appeal 'ludicrous', says family of Henry Nowak

Henry Nowak's family say it is "ludicrous" their son's killer is being allowed to appeal against his sentence and it is a "disgrace" his mother, who hid the murder weapon, will be released from prison early. Vickrum Digwa, 23, was found guilty of the 18-year-old student's murder and sentenced to life in prison , with a 21-year minimum term, earlier this year.

Digwa stabbed Henry, from Chafford Hundred in Essex, five times with an eight-inch blade in Southampton on 3 December – and lied to police that the student had started the altercation and racially abused him. In an interview with ITV News' UK Editor, Paul Brand, Henry's stepmother, Katie Nowak says: "It just doesn't feel fair to us at all.

Digwa's mother, Kiran Kaur, was sentenced to three years in prison in July for assisting an offender, after she hid the blade Digwa used to kill Henry. ITV News last month revealed that Kaur will be freed this December , after serving just one year of her sentence, as part of the government's early release scheme.