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Vickrum Digwa, his brother and father have appeared in court charged with multiple weapons offences.
Digwa, 23, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 21 years on Monday for murdering 18-year-old Henry Nowak in Southampton.
He appeared at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to face six counts of possessing an offensive weapon in a private place.
The alleged weapons are a flick knife, an extendable baton, knuckledusters, a machete, swords and kusaris.
Vickrum Digwa appeared in the dock accompanied by two security officers. He wore a dark suit, blue tie and blue turban.
His father, Moga Singh, 52, and his brother, Gurpreet Digwa, 27, appeared alongside him to face the same charges.
open image in galleryVickrum Digwa was sentenced to life for the murder of Henry Nowak (PA)Gurpreet Digwa faced four additional charges: possessing an offensive weapon, an asp, in a public place; possessing a prohibited weapon, an air rifle; possessing an axe in a public place; and possessing a knife, a kirpan, in a public place.
All of the offences were dated 4 December 2025 – the day after the incident in Southampton in which Mr Nowak was stabbed to death.
Natalie Angel, prosecuting, asked the magistrates for time for the prosecution to consider which charges against the three defendants to proceed with.
She told the court: “A number of weapons were recovered in this case, the defence has suggested potential guilty pleas.”
Harmail Gill, defending all three family members, asked for an adjournment of at least four weeks for both sides to consider the charges.
He told the court that this would allow them to “be in a position where we are not arriving on the day of court not knowing what charges the Crown are going ahead with”.
open image in galleryHenry Nowak was murdered on 3 December 2025 on a Southampton street (Family handout)Jennifer Pitt, chair of the magistrates, adjourned the proceedings until a further hearing on 9 July.
She released Moga Singh and Gurpreet Digwa on unconditional bail until then, and Vickrum Digwa on technical bail as he is serving a jail sentence.
Ms Pitt told the three defendants: “We have been asked to adjourn matters, and we are prepared to do so as we think it is in the interests of justice to look at the charges and decide what exactly is going to go ahead or not, so we know what is going to happen at the next date.”