Hampshire police commissioner urges religious-knives review

Donna Jones writes to PM regarding ‘national tragedy’ of Henry Nowak murder in Southampton last December

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The police and crime commissioner for Hampshire is leading calls for a review of religious exemptions on the carrying of knives after the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak by a man carrying a “Sikh dagger” in Southampton.

Donna Jones described the stabbing of university student Nowak as a “national tragedy” and said she was writing to the prime minister, Keir Starmer, about the issue.