LONDON: The mother of a British Sikh man imprisoned for fatally stabbing a white student was jailed by a court Friday for trying to hide the ceremonial knife used in the killing.
Henry Nowak was handcuffed by police in December as he lay dying, after his attacker, Vickrum Digwa, falsely claimed that he had been the victim of racial abuse. Digwa, 23, was jailed for at least 21 years in June for stabbing Nowak to death using a ceremonial knife with a 21-centimetre (eight-inch) blade in the southern city of Southampton following an altercation about a mobile phone.
The case was seized on by far-right figures who claimed it was an example of so-called “two-tier policing”, in which officers are seen as dealing with ethnic minorities more leniently. Digwa’s mother, Kiran Kaur, 53, was sentenced Friday at the southern Southampton Crown Court to three years in prison for taking the knife away from the scene, back to the family home.
“A responsible parent would have challenged their son over their actions and encourage them to do the right thing,” judge William Mousley said.
