Tim Benfield

🚨 BREAKING: Mother of Henry Nowak’s killer to be released from prison early, less than a year after his murder. • Kiran Kaur was jailed for three years in July for helping her son, Vickrum Digwa, by removing the murder weapon from the scene. • Digwa, 23, stabbed 18-year-old Southampton University student Henry Nowak to death on 3 December 2025 as he walked home from a night out. • Digwa was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 21 years. • ITV News reports Kaur will serve less than half of her three-year sentence before being released under the Government’s early release scheme. • Kaur, an Indian migrant, is also eligible for the Government’s deportation scheme, but no decision has been made on whether she will be deported. • She is appealing her sentence and is due before the Court of Appeal on 5 November, the same day her son’s sentence appeals are scheduled to be heard. • Kaur’s expected release is around the first anniversary of Henry’s death.