New bodycam footage shows Henry Nowak killer's arrest and repeated lies to police

Key developments are emerging from the global stage. Watch Henry Nowak's killer repeatedly lie to police Figure caption, Watch: Footage released by police shows Vickrum Digwa's lies on the night he murdered Henry NowakByNikki Mitchell South of England home affairs correspondentPublished3 hours agoThe lies told by the man who killed Henry Nowak have been exposed in newly obtained police body-worn video from the night of his death, released following a request by the . Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years for the murder of the 18-year-old Southampton university student after stabbing him multiple times last December. The new footage shows Digwa's repeated and insistent "wicked lies" to officers about having been "racially attacked" and his false claims that Henry was "obviously drunk".

It also backs an assertion by the Nowak family that Digwa was "never handcuffed", as Henry was while he lay dying. The contrast in the men's treatment by Hampshire police was described as "unbearable" by the family. Previously released video of Henry in handcuffs caused national outrage and sparked violent disorder in Southampton.

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Hampshire police has also confirmed to South that Digwa was "never handcuffed" during his four days in custody prior to being charged. In a statement read outside court earlier this month, Henry's father Mark Nowak, whose family comes from Chafford Hundred in Essex, compared his son's "inhumane and degrading" treatment by police, to the "decency" officers showed his murderer. Image source, Family photoImage caption, The Nowak family said the last words Henry heard were from an officer reading him "his rights" after his arrestIn the additional footage, Digwa repeats his false claims he had been defending himself, that Henry was drunk, had "barged" into him, called him by an offensive racial word and told him he thought he was a "bad man".

"I said 'yeah I am a bad man'. He then started recording me," he continued. "Obviously then I've just I pushed him.

He's then grabbed me, then started grabbing my turban, pulled my hair, started grabbing my hair, started punching me and all this sort of stuff. "Southampton Crown Court heard that on the night he was stabbed, Henry's blood alcohol level had been low enough to pass a breathalyser test. Digwa never mentions that he has stabbed Henry multiple times, so officers failed to believe Henry when he told them he had been stabbed and it took eight minutes to find the fatal stab wound in his chest.

Image source, Hampshire and Isle of Wight ConstabularyImage caption, Digwa (L) with hair tied up after the stabbing and Digwa (R) with hair loose when police arrivedDuring Digwa's murder trial, the jury heard that he repeated his false account of events to police in the days after his arrest; that Henry had knocked his turban off and that "with his hair in his eyes, he stabbed out twice, but acted in self-defence".

The development has drawn wide international attention, with diplomatic circles watching closely.