Rupert Lowe condemned for using Henry Nowak’s death to stir up hatred against minorities

Rupert Lowe, the leader of far-right Restore Britain, has been condemned for using the murder of Henry Nowak to stir up hatred against minorities.

18-year-old Nowak was stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa, 23, in Southampton in December last year whilst he was walking home alone after a night out.

Digwa told police that Nowak had attacked him and removed his turban. The court found that Digwa lied.

Nowak was handcuffed by police as he said he couldn’t breathe and that he had been stabbed. A police officer is heard asking him where he had been stabbed and then saying: “I don’t think you have mate”.

Hampshire police has apologised and the force’s Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones described the incident as a “national tragedy”.

Speaking outside of court on Monday, Henry’s father called for a transparent investigation and said that the family did not want Henry’s murder to be used to “create further hatred, division or tension.”

However the family’s wishes seem to have been ignored by Lowe.

Lowe quickly went on X to blame foreign cultures and minorities, writing: “Because children have been sacrificed to death in order to appease foreign cultures that have no place in our country.”

One social media user accused Lowe of ‘using Nowak’s death to stir up hatred against minorities’, while another added: “You are absolutely disgusting. And you do not care about Henry or his family.”

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Labour MP for Slough – who is Sikh – said that the indignity of Henry Nowak’s final moments “should never happen again”.

He went on to condemn Reform and Restore for politicising people’s pain” by “attacking” the Sikh community for wearing ceremonial kirpan knives, even though that wasn’t the kind of knife used in the attack.

Reform has “decided to scapegoat and throw under the bus an entire community”, Dhesi told the Commons.