Kiran Kaur, the mother of Vickrum Digwa who murdered 18-year-old Henry Nowak, has been jailed for removing the knife used in the killing from the crime scene. The 53-year-old was sentenced at Southampton Crown Court on Friday for assisting an offender.
Details of the offense
Jurors found Kaur, of St Denys Road, Southampton, guilty of removing the knife used by her son to kill the finance student in December 2025. After taking the weapon from the scene, she brought it back to their nearby family home and placed it with a 'larger collection of ceremonial and other weapons' in her son's bedroom, the court heard.
Sentencing remarks
Sentencing Kaur, Judge William Mousley KC said: "A responsible parent would have challenged their son over their actions and encourage them to do the right thing. Instead you took the knife home and put it with a larger collection of ceremonial and other weapons in your son's bedroom. That would have helped to conceal what it had been used for. This is because you wanted him to avoid being caught."
The judge added that her actions at Belmont Road before and after taking the dagger away "added to your son’s pretence that he had done nothing wrong and that he was the victim."
Background of the murder
Digwa fatally stabbed Henry Nowak in December 2025 and was sentenced to a minimum of 21 years behind bars in June, after falsely claiming Mr Nowak had racially abused him. The court heard the knife was recovered after examination of CCTV and determined by police to be the murder weapon about a week after Mr Nowak was killed.
