“Two Tiered Justice”

As Henry Nowak lay dying of stab wounds inflicted by Vickrum Digwa, the terrible, stifling and wholly predictable teachings of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) came to life, squawking with terrible glee. Knowing full well how much leverage there is in Britain in crying racism, Digwa did just that.

The Nowak murder is many things: disgusting, yowling abuse of all that is precious about our liberal democracy, a mockery of Enlightenment values and a human tragedy with the resonance of an Euripides play.

Canada is fast becoming the mirror image of England.

‘I don’t think you have, mate.’ These were the words of the unidentified policeman who disbelieved the dying Henry Nowak when the boy told him that he had been stabbed. Every innocent word when added to the others is vile, but for me the ‘mate’ stands out – there’s the whole stinking world of contemptuous DEI-fuelled murderous smugness in it.

Let’s just get into this, quickly, before something else horrible happens across the pond and this column goes out of date.

1. The Henry Nowak Case

It all happened in December of last year, and it’s taken seven months for this to finally come to a head with the release of the bodycam video of Henry Nowak, 18, a white British teenager who was stabbed to death by a Sikh wielding a ceremonial knife, bleeding out while in handcuffs, and telling police he couldn’t breathe before passing out.

Yesterday, Lord Daniel Hannan tweeted: “A man is stabbed to death by someone who accuses him of being a racist — and the first thing the police do on arrival is to handcuff the dying man.” Hannan speaks to a kind of “reverse Stephen Lawrence syndrome”, whereby conservative commentators view police as institutionally biased against white people. In 1999, the Macpherson Report into Lawrence’s murder was published, finding the Metropolitan Police liable for “institutional racism” in its handling of the case.