Nothing ruins someone’s life quicker than calling them racist. And Vickrum Digwa knew that better than anyone.
Having stabbed 18-year-old business student Henry Nowak five times in a frenzied attack one evening in Southampton last December, he lied to police by claiming Henry had racially abused him and ‘knocked off his turban’.
Digwa then watched as officers arrested young Henry, handcuffing him and dragging his bleeding body across the gravel, where he lost consciousness and died.
Digwa knew, in the words of the prosecutors at his trial which concluded this week, that racism was his ‘trump card’: the magic words that would make
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