Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old white college freshman studying finance at the University of Southhampton, started walking home alone just after 11 p.m. on December 3, 2025, after an evening out with his sports teammates to celebrate the end of the academic term. He had been drinking, but it couldn’t have been too much, as it was later confirmed that his blood-alcohol content was under the legal threshold to drive. While Nowak was video-chatting on the phone with friends, he encountered Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old Sikh man who lived on the street with his family and was helping his older brother ...