Kiran Kaur: Mother of Henry Nowak killer will be freed early from prison, Sky News understands

The mother of Henry Nowak's killer will be freed early from prison, Sky News understands.

Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life for stabbing 18-year-old Mr Nowak to death in Southampton in December.

His mother, Kiran Kaur, arrived at the scene and removed the knife used by her son before police arrived.

Kaur, 53, of St Denys Road, Southampton, was jailed for three years for assisting an offender in July.

Sky News understands that the release is set to take place in December.

A government spokesperson said: "Our thoughts remain with the family and friends of Henry Nowak, whose life was cruelly cut short in a horrific act of violence.

"We will always seek to deport foreign criminals at the first opportunity."

Mr Nowak, a first-year finance student from Chafford Hundred, Essex, had been on a night out with his football team.

He was stabbed five times by Digwa but was mistakenly arrested and handcuffed by police officers who believed Digwa's claim that Nowak had racially abused him.

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Mr Nowak suffered four stab wounds and a cut to his jaw, with two of the wounds to the back of his legs, a post-mortem found.

Digwa's trial heard that on the night of the murder, he was wearing "an extremely large knife in a sheath openly displayed over his clothing" - an 8in (21cm) shastar, the Punjabi word for weapon or knife - as well as a smaller kirpan around his neck and under clothing.

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Digwa told the court that Mr Nowak, whom he described as drunk, had racially abused him before punching him and knocking his turban off.

Jurors were shown a video of the incident, which was found on Mr Nowak's phone that was discovered in Digwa's pocket.

In the video, played to jurors, Mr Nowak can be heard saying "Hello car" and singing to himself before yawning, with the footage then cutting to show Digwa walking away from him.

Mr Nowak is then heard saying: "Innit bad man, what bad man. You're a bad man, say you're a bad man, go on."

Digwa replied: "I am a bad man."

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