Overview
- Prosecutors, who opened their case Thursday, played Snapchat video from Henry Nowak’s phone that captured part of his encounter with Vikrum Digwa and included Digwa saying, “I am a bad man.”
- Forensic testing, the court heard, found Nowak’s blood and fatty tissue on a large shastar, hairs matching Digwa on the weapon, and Kiran Kaur’s DNA on the sheath.
- The prosecution says Kaur was seen on video taking the knife to the family home on St Denys Road, where police later recovered it, though she denies assisting an offender.
- Officers handcuffed the wounded 18-year-old after Digwa alleged racial abuse, then began first aid when he collapsed, and a doctor flown in by helicopter pronounced him dead at 12:37 am.
- Digwa denies murder and possessing the shastar and says he was racially abused, while prosecutors note he wore a small kirpan for religious reasons but also carried the larger blade, a distinction that feeds wider scrutiny of knife-carrying and police response.