New bodycam footage shows Henry Nowak killer's arrest and repeated lies to police

Watch Henry Nowak's killer repeatedly lie to policeTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedFigure caption, Watch: Footage released by police shows Vickrum Digwa's lies on the night he murdered Henry NowakByNikki MitchellSouth of England home affairs correspondentPublished3 hours agoThe lies told by the man who killed Henry Nowak have been exposed in newly obtained police body-worn video from the night of his death, released following a request by the BBC.Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years for the murder of the 18-year-old Southampton university student after stabbing him multiple times last December.The new footage shows Digwa's repeated and insistent "wicked lies" to officers about having been "racially attacked" and his false claims that Henry was "obviously drunk". It also backs an assertion by the Nowak family that Digwa was "never handcuffed", as Henry was while he lay dying. The contrast in the men's treatment by Hampshire police was described as "unbearable" by the family. Previously released video of Henry in handcuffs caused national outrage and sparked violent disorder in Southampton.Hampshire police has also confirmed to BBC South that Digwa was "never handcuffed" during his four days in custody prior to being charged.In a statement read outside court earlier this month, Henry's father Mark Nowak, whose family comes from Chafford Hundred in Essex, compared his son's "inhumane and degrading" treatment by police, to the "decency" officers showed his murderer.Image source, Family photoImage caption, The Nowak family said the last words Henry heard were from an officer reading him "his rights" after his arrestIn the additional footage, Digwa repeats his false claims he had been defending himself, that Henry was drunk, had "barged" into him, called him by...