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Vickrum Digwa, father and brother appear in court over weapons charges day after murder sentence

Vickrum Digwa, father and brother appear in court over weapons charges day after murder sentence

Vickrum Digwa, the Sikh man sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Southampton teenager Henry Nowak, has appeared in court alongside his father and brother after all three were charged with multiple weapons offences.The charges relate to a range of weapons allegedly found on December 4, 2025, a day after the fatal stabbing of the 18-year-old student. Prosecutors allege the weapons included a flick knife, an extendable baton, knuckledusters, a machete, swords and kusaris, The Independent reported. Digwa, 23, appeared before Southampton Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after receiving a life sentence with a minimum term of 21 years for killing Nowak.His father, Moga Singh, 52, and brother, Gurpreet Digwa, 27, also appeared in court facing the same weapons charges.Gurpreet faces additional allegations, including possessing an asp and a kirpan in public, carrying an axe in a public place and possessing a prohibited air rifle.During the hearing, prosecutor Natalie Angel asked magistrates for more time to allow the Crown Prosecution Service to determine which charges it intends to pursue. Defence solicitor Harmail Gill, representing all three defendants, requested an adjournment of at least four weeks so both sides could review the case and clarify the charges likely to proceed.He told the court the delay would ensure the parties were “not arriving on the day of court not knowing what charges the Crown are going ahead with”.Jennifer Pitt, chair of the magistrates, agreed to adjourn the case until July 9.Explaining the decision, Pitt told the 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.”Moga Singh and Gurpreet Digwa were granted unconditional bail until the next hearing. Vickrum Digwa was granted technical bail as he is already serving a prison sentence.The three men are due to appear before the court again on July 9.

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