GB News host chokes back tears as he delivers powerful response over Henry Nowak's murder: 'He must have been so scared'

Offering his reaction to the murder of the 18-year-old student, Cristo began by criticising Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for not issuing a statement on Mr Nowak's death.

Cristo said: "I want to talk to you about a story that I can't get past this week, and I can't get past the fact that our Prime Minister has still said absolutely nothing about it.

"Henry Novak, an 18-year-old student, on the 3rd of December last year was murdered by a man named Vickrum Digwa. Digwa was a Sikh man, and he claimed it was in self-defence. He said that Nowak was drunk and had barged into him, and that was a lie."

Cristo recalled what happened that tragic night: "After stabbing Nowak five times with an eight inch blade, Digwa's mother took and hid the ceremonial Kirpan knife, which is carried by some Sikhs, in order to protect her son and obviously hide what he'd done.

"Meanwhile, Nowak tried to escape, leaving a trail of blood behind him. When the police arrived, Digwa claimed he'd been racially abused by a drunken Nowak. Both of those things were lies."

Cristo despaired at the police choosing to believe Digwa, handcuffing a bleeding Mr Nowak and noting the student's final words.

Cristo told GB News viewers: "Despite Nowak having extensive stab wounds, the police believed the version by Digwa the murderer and handcuffed Nowak as he was dying.

"Nowak told the police he'd been stabbed and they didn't believe him. They told him he hadn't been stabbed, and this turned out to be the 18-year-old's final words in handcuffs. I can't breathe.

"He then collapsed. He was drowning in his own blood from a stab wound to the chest. It was only then the police took off his handcuffs and administered first aid. Then it was too late, he died."

Cristo became tearful as he reflected on how Mr Nowak must have felt in his last moments, handcuffed by police as he was dying.

The GB News host paused to regain his composure before continuing: "What would that poor boy have thought in his dying moments, at a time when he should have been given comfort, when he should have felt reassured. When he should have felt love.

"Instead, his final moments would have been filled with the injustice of knowing that he was the victim, but was being treated like the one who was guilty. He must have been so scared."

Cristo called for the officers who responded to the incident to be "fired" as they have failed to "resign in shame".

He argued: "I have respect for the police, but those officers should be fired. It's right they are now being investigated. They're simply too thick or too steeped in political correctness to be serving officers. I'm amazed they haven't resigned in shame.

"How can you believe that a man who was bleeding to death was a threat? How can you not notice the blood? We need to remember this boy's name, Henry Nowak. We need to stop this ridiculousness.

"We need to be angry about this, because too often, we're sacrificing our common sense and our decency and calling out what is wrong in our society for fear of racism, and I am sick of it."

Issuing a public apology, Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Robert France of Hampshire Constabulary said of Mr Nowak's death: "I’m sorry that Henry’s life couldn’t be saved that night, and I’m sorry that he was handcuffed and arrested in the moments before he lost consciousness.

"When his killer made that call to the police, and he called the police, not the ambulance service, he lied on that call. He lied when police attended the scene. He continued to lie as Henry’s condition deteriorated."

An IOPC spokesman said: "Our thoughts and sympathies are with Henry Nowak’s family and everyone affected by his death.

"We are independently investigating the contact Hampshire and Isle of Wight officers had with Mr Nowak prior to his death on December 4, including the use of handcuffs by officers and the first aid provided.

"Our investigation, which began following a mandatory referral from the force that we received the same day, remains ongoing and the officers involved are currently being treated as witnesses."