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Henry Nowak - I can’t breathe

  • 02-06-2026 09:29AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,040 ✭✭✭


    It’s been a long time since I have posted on boards and even longer since I started a thread.

    Henry Nowak died on 3rd December 2025 after being stabbed multiple times by Vickrum Digwa. When the police arrived on the scene they found a man collapsed on a driveway between a parked car and the house. The murderer told the police that he had been racially attacked by Henry. The police subsequently dragged dying Henry by his legs from between the car and the house.

    During this time Henry is struggling to breathe and to talk but he repeats many times he has been stabbed. He mumbles he needs an ambulance and he desperately tells the police officers he cannot breathe. A police officer tells him he hasn’t been stabbed and they handcuff him and tell him he has been arrested. Police have now released their bodycam footage

    Yesterday after Digwa was sentenced to life for the murder of Henry Nowak, Henry’s father in a statement outside the court said that Henry did not die with dignity and did not die with the care he deserved. I am making this post to remember Henry who by all accounts was a wonderful young man whose bright future was taken away from him. May he rest in peace.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 966 ✭✭✭puntosporting


    RIP Condolances to his family and friends an incredibly sad situation.

    Society is well and truly broken.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,844 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    A very sad case. RIP to Henry.

    Investigations into police actions on the scene are underway.

    Link to BBC coverage -

    Murdered student Henry Nowak 'did not die with dignity' says family https://share.google/2iw54L3cEEYXjtad8



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,579 ✭✭✭batman_oh


    Absolutely shocking incident. Look at the recent cases here to see the beginning of similar stuff to what has been going on in the UK for years and the parasites cheering it on. It's more important to virtue signal than report facts and protect people.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭Photobox


    Disturbing and upsetting. Been reading about it on X the past week. No words really for it.Truly shocking. RIP



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,575 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Racist Nigel Farage attempting to use this case to raise the mob

    It is an appalling case and the police are a disgrace how they behaved, there should be repercussions for those officiers - Farage and his mob can get to falkirk though.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭sekiro


    You'd think that people would be well within their rights to be outraged about a case like this?

    If the English are fine with mobs being raised when an American criminal is murdered by American police in America or weekly mobs out on the streets when violence kicks off between Israel and Hamas miles from England then why wouldn't they naturally expect a mob to be raised over an incident like this?

    It's true that a situation like this is an open goal for Farage but Farage did not create these conditions.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭sekiro


    With the situation in the UK an incident like this has been in the post for a while.

    It's absolutely wild that the murderer here actually thought that "but he was racist to me" would be an acceptable excuse to stab a man to death. However, that's the environment that they've created over there.

    Everyone is so terrified of being accused of racism it's just a matter of what level of heinous crime people and authorities are willing to ignore to maintain a quiet life.

    It's already happening here to some extent.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,040 ✭✭✭StrawbsM


    Just like to clarify to anyone who hasn’t been following this case that there was no evidence at all that Henry Nowak made any racist comments and this was confirmed by the Judge. Mobile phone evidence showed that Digwa was actually wearing his turban at the time of the attack.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,575 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    People are well within their rights to be outraged at this case, why do you think I said otherwise?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭Juran


    Sad and shocking case. But sadly I can see it happening in Ireland in the future as well.

    You only have to look at how the Gardaí are ignoring the mob outside Arrnotts, but it was pepper spray, batons, court summons and arrests when it was diesel protestors.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    The police behaved despicably

    He was lying in heap on the ground wedged into a corner and the first thought of the police is to slap the cuffs on someone who can barely move. Cuffs should only be needed if someone is a potential threat and needs to be restrained. Incredible level of incompetence on display by the police.

    The case is a perfect example of how the obsession with "anti-racism" has impacted how public institutions perform. Because of the anti racism push in public institutions in the UK the murderer in this instance and the people who helped him were instantly believed because of the colour of their skin and the victim was believed to be a perpetrator of a crime because of the colour of his skin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    The other parties in the UK created and pushed for conditions where people were believed purely becasue of the colour of their skin and where racism was treated as the worst crime in the world and where reality was ignored in certain instances if it reflected poorly on certain groups , the anti-racism push in public institutions in the UK has lead to an incident like this.

    Seeing as the main political parties aren't going to criticize themselves for this it's really left to Farage and co to do this on behalf of the voters .Farage may be a scumbag but the ordinary people in the UK don't have anyone else to advocate against the political parties who's rhetoric and policies have lead to incidents like this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,772 ✭✭✭Backstreet Moyes


    If the guards done anything you would have the likes of Coppinger and Murphy slating them on TV and far left lunatics trying to ruin them.

    They are human and I can understand why they are doing nothing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭JVince


    The incident was last December - not last week.

    In the UK, the chances of police being made responsible for horrific actions such as this are practically zero. Its not far off that level here either. The primary reason is "blue glue" where police stick very much to their own except in exceptional cirecumstances.

    The person who killed him was charged, evidence gathered and had their trial all completed within 5 months. The brutality of the police is "under investigation" - 5 months later.

    Its nearly the same here - even the most heinous crimes perpetrated by gardai as seen recently (Garda Lorcan Murphy, Garda Trevor Bolger, Garda Paul Moody) take YEARS to get to get to conclusion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,753 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    If irc the diesel protestors were allowed to escalate and cause complete havok though. They had the country close to running out of fuel before a police finger was raised against them to clear the ports/fuel depots. Policing/justice in this country is just incredibly light touch, for everyone. I haven't seen much evidence of bias there, it's all weak and that's what the public seem to want (e.g. they constantly come out with stuff like you, claiming some criminals that they happen to personally agree with are being horribly oppressed and treated so very harshly by our amazingly weak system!). I'd love it if a main political party said they will invest in the garda and the justice system, they will build a new prison and they will ensure that people sentenced for violent crime will mostly serve every single day of their sentence.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭Perseverance The Second


    The sad part is that nothing will come of it AND you can guarantee the same ideological thinking that led to Henry's pleas being ignored are being replicated here.

    None of the parties in the UK nor here will question the 'Progressive' Ideology that created the policing mentality seen in this incident. Whether that be due to the financial incentives with the Billions that fund 'progressivism' or the ideological blinkers that constrain the various western elites.

    The only way any change can occur requires changing the opinions of western elites themselves.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,842 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    I'll meet you half-way. I have no issue with someone getting arrested having the cuffs put on them even if at the time they don't seem to be a threat. That situation can change quickly, cuffs are safer than no cuffs.

    However, failing to properly investigate the claim of 'I've been stabbed' for whatever reason, be it 'belief of racism' or just general disbelief of the concept is inexcusable, especially when the person seems barely lucid. "I don't think you have, mate" is not an acceptable response, and if the person is cuffed there isn't even a realistic argument that the officer would have been placed in any particular risk had he done a reasonable search for a wound.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭thegame983


    Imagine there was no stabbing and it was just a simple assault. This poor lad would probably have a hate charge to his name and a criminal record.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭OscarMIlde


    I'm not so sure. This incident is so extreme and so blatant that I think some top down change in guidance will occur, although I imagine implementation of changed guidance might depend on how indoctrinated individual stations are. From what I understand there was guidance for police forces to treat minorities differently, which is clearly unfair. Macro differences in privilege, whether real or imagined, should not be used at the micro level to determine institutional responses. It's clearly biased and leads to unfairness and injustice.

    There is already a push back on police force alignment with certain political viewpoints and engagement with American style culture wars. Non hate crime incidents, which heavily favoured so called 'progressive' viewpoints in terms of action are now not a policing matter as a fallout of the Graham Linehan arrest farce.

    There is also pushback and change, although it seems to vary by police district, at official police involvement with Pride matches. It shows partiality, especially contentious when it concerns gender critical viewpoints being deemed 'bad' relative to trans inclusive viewpoints.

    “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    From National police chiefs councile:

    https://www.npcc.police.uk/our-work/police-race-action-plan/police-anti-racism-commitment/

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    The police explicitly state that they will not treat everyone the same, yet you will get people in the UK pretending this isn't the case. They then pretend that such guidance didn't contribute to producing a culture in the police which allowed Henry Nowak to be disregarded like he was in this incident.

    important to remind all those who are pretending that the "anti-racism" push didn't actually exist that it did exist and it's quite explicitly stated on official police documentataion.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,070 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    This comes down to a simple case of police negligence, not the death of society itself, as some are portraying it.

    It is basic SOP for police attending a scene of conflict to separate parties and to document what everyone is saying and doing at the time, for the purposes of sorting out the truth from the lies and the aggressors from the victims, if any, later.

    When Henry Novak said that he had been stabbed, it was the duty of the police constable dealing with him to immediately verify that, one way or the other.

    The police in the UK, as in Ireland, are trained as medical first responders also. They are trained and often all too experienced enough to know the signs of what may be hidden injury, e.g. skin colour, eye responsiveness, alertness level, unexplained surface bruising etc.

    Had the policeman who dismissed what Novak said simply done his job, which was to check for a wound, or the consequences of a wound, Novak would likely have received immediate life saving first aid, and nobody would be talking about this, save for a possible mention in the local paper of a scuffle at the time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭satguy


    The police are not our protectors.

    " I don't think you have Mate "

    Those words above show the contempt they have for us.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,575 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Farage and Yaxley-Lennon should be charged with incitement



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭satguy


    Farage should get a medal,, we seem to have lost our spines, maybe a little bit of incitement might wake us up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,575 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    I am sure the family of Henry Novak would be happy for a medal to bestowed on Farage



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 33,828 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    It's absolutely wild that the murderer here actually thought that "but he was racist to me" would be an acceptable excuse to stab a man to death. However, that's the environment that they've created over there.

    Hold on, it very much wasn't an acceptable excuse and he is going to jail for an incredibly long time.

    I highly doubt "ah they're all woke I'll get away with this" crossed his mind as he was stabbing the guy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,873 ✭✭✭amandstu


    "

    Hold on, it very much wasn't an acceptable excuse and he is going to jail for an incredibly long time.

    I highly doubt "ah they're all woke I'll get away with this" crossed his mind as he was stabbing the guy."

    What do we know about the murderer?

    Did he explain in court why he acted in the way he did?

    Has he any previous history of unusual behaviour?

    Ditto his mother. Did he claim to her that it was some kind of self defence…is that why she hid the knife for him,perhaps?

    Has she been convicted too or is her trial pending?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,110 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Yes, how dare the family of a murder victim be devastared and outraged at the circumstances surrounding their sons/brothers death, and want people to know about it. What's more important is that no one thinks they might be racist. Keep sneering at them, that will help.

    It's this exact attitude that the police involved in this case had on proud display.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,575 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,071 ✭✭✭aero2k


    I fully agree with this bit:

    When Henry Novak said that he had been stabbed, it was the duty of the police constable dealing with him to immediately verify that, one way or the other

    however I believe the pathologist's report said that the injury was not survivable even if he'd got prompt medical attention.

    edit: Here's a paste from Wikipedia:

    During Digwa's trial, the judge cited an assessment of the pathologist, stating: "No emergency medical treatment would have permitted access to the bleeding vein. In simple terms, he would not have survived, however quickly he received first aid, CPR or expert medical treatment," indicating the police delay in treating Nowak did not lead to his death.



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