🚨 HENRY NOWAK’S KI-LL-ER IS REPORTEDLY LIVIN...

🚨 HENRY NOWAK’S KI-LL-ER IS REPORTEDLY LIVING THROUGH A “PRISON NI-GHTMARE”… WHAT HAS JUST BEEN REVEALED IS DRAWING GROWING ATTENTION

s Henry Nowak bled to death, Kiran Kaur took the knife her son had used to stab him and ran back home to hide it, removing it from the scene of the crime.

The reprehensible act, it would later be claimed in her defence, was carried out from ‘an instinctive desire to protect her child’.

Well, the 53-year-old can’t protect him now. Nor he, her.

Today Kaur and 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa are separated by 300 miles and the walls of not one but two high security prisons.

The murder weapon used by Vickrum Digwa

Though the pair once shared a semi-detached home in Southampton, today the mother-of-five, who moved to England almost three decades ago to escape a ‘hard’ life in India, is locked up behind bars at HMP Bronzefield.

Fellow inmates in the Surrey jail include aristocratic child killer Constance Marten, Lucy Letby and Beinash Batool. Letby is serving 15 life sentences for murdering seven babies and trying to murder another seven at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Batool was handed a 33-year sentence for the murder of her ten-year-old stepdaughter Sara Sharif.

Kaur has already spent the past seven months alongside them on remand.

Police at the scene in Southampton following the murder of Henry Nowak

Convicted of assisting an offender, she was handed a three-year prison sentence last week and is expected to remain at Bronzefield, Europe’s largest women’s prison, until her release.

But this could happen before the end of the year. Under controversial new sentencing rules to be introduced by Labour in September, certain prisoners who would have previously served half their sentence will now serve just a third.

While the initiative is currently paused for a review, if it goes ahead, then taking her time on remand into account Kaur could be back home by Christmas.

Kiran Kaur, the mother of Vickrum Digwa, was found guilty at Southampton Crown Court

Approached for comment, the Ministry of Justice said they won’t go in to detail on individual cases and can’t confirm how long she will serve.

But it would be yet another blow to the family of 18-year-old student Mr Nowak, who were in court to see Kaur jailed and later spoke of being ‘incredibly disappointed’ by the brevity of the sentence.

While Bronzefield is no picnic, it is understood that Kaur’s time there has been largely without incident – partly because, in the criminal mind, showing ‘loyalty’ to a family member in the way she did is seen to excuse any manner of wrongdoing.

Women’s prisons, even those that house the most dangerous offenders, also see less violence between inmates than those housing men.

By contrast, her son’s experience behind bars is already shaping up very differently.

After initially being held on remand at HMP Winchester, a Category B prison, Digwa was moved to HMP Frankland in County Durham shortly after he was sentenced to life last month, with a minimum of 21 years, for murdering Mr Nowak.

As a high security facility, Frankland houses some of Britain’s most dangerous, violent prisoners.

Fellow inmates include terrorist Michael Adebolajo, one of the men who murdered soldier Lee Rigby in south-east London in 2013; serial killer Levi Bellfield, whose victims include 13-year-old schoolgirl Milly Dowler, and Sarah Everard’s murderer Wayne Couzens.

HMP Bronzefield, a women’s prison on the outskirts of Ashford in Surrey

On arrival the plan was for Digwa to be placed on A-wing, where Soham killer Ian Huntley – the former school caretaker jailed for life for the murders of ten-year-old Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman – had been held. The 52-year-old was bludgeoned to death with a metal bar by a fellow inmate in a prison workshop in February.

‘He was told he was going on to A-wing and he knew it was where Huntley was killed and said “No”,’ a source said.

Instead, Digwa requested to be placed in segregation for his own safety.

This saw him isolated from other prisoners even during his hour’s daily exercise, held outdoors in an enclosed cage where he was escorted by four prison officers.

As for the bravado he showed on the night that he murdered 18-year-old Mr Nowak – when he brazenly lied to police, falsely claiming that Henry had attacked him – that was nowhere to be seen.

HMP Frankland, a Category A men’s prison in the village of Brasside in County Durham

‘Digwa arrived at Frankland terrified,’ a prison service source told the Daily Mail this week. ‘I mean literally shaking. He was in total fear – there was none of that arrogance you saw on the police camera. I think he thought he wouldn’t survive the first night.’

The Daily Mail has learned that after several weeks in segregation, Digwa has now been moved back on to a wing – but continues to receive close supervision due to the risks he faces.

‘He is on a special watch list because of the recent murders in Frankland and he fits into the category of people who are at risk because of the nature of his crime and the fact that he is now a high-profile prisoner,’ said the source.

‘There are cons in Frankland who will have a go at him, physically as well as verbally, because of who he is and so they can boast that they were the one who beat the s*** out of him.

‘Unfortunately his body language makes him look like a bit of a victim. He has scared eyes.

Vickrum Digwa was found guilty of the murder of university student Henry Nowak

‘I’ve no idea whether he was some sort of hard man outside of prison but in Frankland he looks terrified most of the time and that can invite an attack.

‘He will just have to get on with prison life and accept that because of his crime he is not going to have an easy time – not for a very long time.’

The recent spate of prison killings has seen convicted sex offenders like Huntley and Ian Watkins, the paedophile frontman of rock band Lostprophets, targeted. Watkins was stabbed to death in his cell at HMP Wakefield last October.

While inmates see child abusers and sex offenders as the lowest of the low, prison insiders say there is a demographic of inmates who are likely to target Digwa because of the particular nature of his crime.

Henry Nowak, who was killed in December 2025

During Digwa’s trial at Southampton Crown Court, the jury heard how Southampton University student Mr Nowak was walking home from a night out on December 3 last year when the pair crossed paths.

Digwa was wearing an eight-inch dagger in a sheath around his neck, something he would claim that as a Sikh he was entitled to carry for religious reasons.

Words were exchanged after which Digwa withdrew the knife and stabbed Mr Nowak in the chest.

A further four wounds were inflicted for good measure, including two to Mr Nowak’s back as he tried to run away.

Digwa then set about creating a story that painted the teenager as the drunk aggressor and himself as the victim of a vile racist attack.

When police arrived on the scene, Digwa and his brother fed officers his version of events.

In doing so, he neglected to tell them one key fact – that he had repeatedly stabbed Mr Nowak.

Police bodycam footage captured the teenager’s dying moments, surrounded by Digwa and his family members.

Mr Nowak could be seen, lying on the floor, telling officers he had been stabbed and pleading with them that he couldn’t breathe.

One officer – now being investigated by the police watchdog – responded: ‘I don’t think you have, mate.’

Mr Nowak was read his rights before an officer realised he was unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Digwa was charged with murder and carrying a knife in public, while his mother was charged with assisting an offender.

Both were found guilty following a two-week trial in May.

While the failings of the police and the cowardly lies of Digwa caused widespread and understandable outrage, the murder was also seized upon by the far-Right to spread anti-immigration sentiment. This was despite the pleas of Mr Nowak’s family not to politicise his death and the fact that Digwa was born in Britain.

Activist and far-Right rabble-rouser Tommy Robinson promoted a series of rallies in Southampton and across the country. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called for ‘pure, cold rage’ from the public over an example of so-called ‘two-tier policing’, where ethnic minorities are perceived as receiving better treatment than white people.

Why is this relevant to Digwa now? In prison, as in society, there are those who harbour sympathies with the far-Right.

Amongst those held in Frankland is neo-Nazi Thomas Mair, who murdered Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016. There will be others there who share such views.

As of September 2025, there were 254 people in prison for terrorism and terrorism-connected offences in Great Britain. Of those in custody, 60 per cent were categorised as holding Islamist-extremist views, while 30 per cent hold extreme right-wing ideologies.

Vanessa Frake-Harris, a former prison governor who spent 27 years in the Prison Service, believes that Digwa has a lot to worry about.

‘High-profile prisoners like Vickrum Digwa will always be targets,’ she said. ‘There are many in Frankland with nothing to lose but a lot of credibility to gain.

‘His was a high-profile murder which angered society. This anger may well follow him into HMP Frankland.’

Digwa will also stand out because of his religious beliefs. Across the prison estate, there are currently only 600 Sikhs held behind bars.

Referring to Digwa’s beard and turban, a relative visiting a prisoner at Frankland this week told the Daily Mail that inmates were aware he was in the jail – and were on the lookout for him.

‘The lad will stand out because of the way he looks, which might be a problem for him in future,’ he said.

Other vulnerable prisoners at Frankland have sought protection by aligning themselves with Muslim inmates, whose influence in the prison has been a cause of growing concern in recent years.

‘There are a lot of Muslims in Frankland, including some very violent gangs who are very religious,’ said the prison source. ‘They will often approach at-risk prisoners like Digwa and offer them protection, but they must convert to Islam.

‘It will be up to Digwa whether he wants to do this. No one in the Prison Service is going to offer him advice one way or the other.’

Among those to take this option is Levi Bellfield who converted to Islam not long after being sentenced to life for murder in 2008 – and is now known by the name Yusuf Rahim.

Thomas Mair, who murdered MP Jo Cox

Levi Bellfield, a serial killer and sex offender

The source added: ‘Digwa has received a bit of abuse from other inmates – stuff like “f****** murderer”, but that’s to be expected.

‘He is on a wing now and slowly building up his privileges so that he will soon be able to get a TV and video games – which is what helps prevent a lot of relatively young inmates from getting depressed.

‘He is going to the gym and by all accounts he is hopeful of getting some sort of job. There will be an opportunity to do some sort of academic course, possibly at the Open University. But he has shown no real interest in that.

‘He is quite bright but clearly has some personality issues which will have to be resolved. Prisons can be very dangerous places. If there is any intelligence that he faces being attacked then he will be moved or the potential perpetrator can be moved.’

How long Digwa will spend in prison is not clear.

An inmate room in the separation unit at HMP Frankland

In June his sentence was referred to the Court of Appeal as ‘unduly lenient’ and is being reviewed.

Meanwhile, Digwa has launched his own appeal against both his conviction and the sentence.

He is also facing further criminal charges.

Along with his brother, 27-year-old Gurpreet Digwa, and his father, 52-year-old Moga Singh, he has been accused of illegally possessing an arsenal of 55 weapons – including three machetes, 37 swords, three ninja swords, two flick-knives or gravity knives and eight knuckledusters – at their home in Southampton.

Having pleaded not guilty to all charges, the trio are due to face trial in September of next year.

Following the violence that took place in Southampton after Digwa’s conviction, his father and brother were forced to flee their house for their own safety.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail at the time, Bimla Kaur – Kiran Kaur’s mother – claimed the case had destroyed not just Mr Nowak’s family but hers as well.

‘We’re all living in fear,’ she said.

A state of being that her grandson will become very familiar with over the coming years.

SOURCE: DAILYMAIL – https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15994303/Vickrum-Digwas-prison-nightmare-Henry-Nowaks-killer-target-night-jail.html