UK minister condemns violent protests against student’s murder

Key points

• Henry Nowak’s death has spurred claims by right-wing politicians that the UK has ‘two-tier’ policing that disadvantages white people.
• British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has condemned as “completely unacceptable” violent, racially charged demonstrations over the case of an 18-year-old student who was handcuffed by police as he lay dying after his killer falsely claimed to be a victim of a racist attack.
• The riots on Tuesday were spurred by claims that the United Kingdom has “two-tier justice” that disadvantages white people.
• Henry Nowak was murdered in December by Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old British Sikh.
• This week, a court found Digwa stabbed 18-year-old Nowak five times and then falsely claimed to be the victim of a racist assault.