Watch the moment Martin Daubney is reduced to tears as he reflects on the "heartbreaking" murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak.
The GB News host was overcome with emotion as he remembered his own son, who turned 17 just yesterday.
Looking at CCTV footage of Mr Nowak checking his hair in the mirror of an elevator, Martin despaired at how the murdered teenager had "his whole life ahead of him".
Martin said: "When you see those pictures of an 18-year-old boy checking his hair in a lift on a night out, just an ordinary kid with his whole life ahead of him.
"My boy turned 17 yesterday... it's just so heartbreaking."
Martin stressed how Mr Nowak was "betrayed" by the police in his dying moment in choosing to believe killer Vickrum Digwa's claims.
He said: "An 18-year-old lad, just gone, betrayed, in his dying moment, just wasn't listened to. Who knows if he could have survived?
"We'll never know. If they'd put him in the recovery position, if they'd have tended to him sooner, we just won't ever know. But he's gone."
Martin Daubney was left in tears as he reflected on the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak
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Speaking to justice journalist David Shipley, Martin argued if the "roles had been reversed" in the murder, there would be "huge public conversation" about the far-right.
He told Mr Shipley: "You can bet your life if the roles had been reversed, we'd be having a huge public conversation now about the far-right and how out of control it is and how we've failed, and our country is poisonous.
"And the silence from our political class, from our media class, I think has been grotesque."
Martin also took aim at Hampshire Police following their public apology for their conduct in the incident, having handcuffed Mr Nowak as he repeatedly told them he had been stabbed by Digwa and consequently bled to death.
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Vickrum Digwa was found guilty at Southampton Crown Court of the murder of university student Henry Nowak | CPSThe GB News host fumed: "We've got the police chief today saying sorry, I don't think that's enough. I don't think saying sorry is enough.
"To look at someone like that and then to just try and think ahead to how they would lay gurgling on a pavement, disbelieved by the police."
Responding to Martin, Mr Shipley argued such a case could encourage "more young men who are not white to be more violent if they clearly think they can get away with it".
He said: "This chap thought that he would get away with it. He thought it was a reasonable thing to do, to stab someone five times and then pretend that he'd been racially abused.
David Shipley said Vickrum Digwa 'believed he would get away with it if he shouted racism'
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"If he expected the police to be fair minded, he wouldn't have done that. He thought he could rely on the police to take his side if he shouted racism, and that's the the dark, destructive lie that we have at the heart of multicultural Britain."
Hampshire Police have referred themselves to the Independent Office of Police Conduct after it emerged officers handcuffed Mr Nowak as he repeatedly told them he had been stabbed by Vickrum Digwa and consequently bled to death.
Issuing a public apology, Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Robert France of Hampshire Constabulary said: "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."
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