Henry Nowak’s family have said he “would have hated” the riots that followed his death, as they accused some politicians of playing a “game” with their son’s murder.

Nowak, who was fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa in December 2025, was handcuffed by police as he lay dying after his attacker falsely accused him of racial abuse.

The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, subsequently delivered an emergency address calling for the public to respond with “pure cold rage” and demanding an end to what he described as “two-tier policing”.

Protesters – including the leaders of Ukip and Britain First, the Portsmouth branch of the National Rebirth party and others called to attend on social media – gathered in Southampton in the weeks after Nowak’s death.

Speaking in an interview for an ITV Tonight documentary, Dear Henry: Our Fight for Justice, the family said they had “worked hard” to keep politics out of Nowak’s story.

Nowak’s mother, Lucy Ross, said she thought some people had tried to use her son’s death to advance…