I can’t breathe!…

Horrific police body cam footage shows the moment 18-year-old Henry Nowak shouted ‘I can’t breathe’ as he was arrested on the ground after being stabbed by a knife-obsessed Sikh man.

The innocent victim begged officers to call an ambulance after being knifed six times by stranger Vickrum Digwa, 23, who used an eight-inch ceremonial dagger to carry out the murder in Southampton city centre last December.

Digwa did not know the teenager, but told a ‘wicked lie’ about him to the first officers on the scene, claiming Mr Nowak shouted racist abuse, punched him and knocked off his turban.

The injured student was then arrested as he lay dying on the ground, drowning in his own blood.

Newly released footage shows the teenager saying four times, ‘I’ve been stabbed’, to which one policeman replies, ‘I don’t think you have mate’.

Officers pull Mr Nowak along the ground as he continues to beg for help, telling them he cannot breathe at least seven times before he is ordered to place his hands in the cuffs.

The student died from drowning in his own blood shortly after his wrongful arrest, Southampton Crown Court heard.

The footage also shows Digwa – who was sentenced to 21 years in prison yesterday – telling police that his victim had not been stabbed. A female officer replies: ‘I know, but we have to check don’t we.’

In a passionate address to the nation this morning, Nigel Farage said people should respond with ‘pure cold rage’ to the treatment of Mr Nowak.

Police body cam footage shows innocent victim Henry Nowak, 18, being forced into handcuffs by officers after he was stabbed repeatedly by a knife-obsessed Sikh man

Murderer Vickrum Digwa is seen lying to police as he tells them the teenager ripped off his turban in a racist attack

Henry was a finance student at the University of Southampton and was described as ‘kind and talented’ by his family

An image issued by the Crown Prosecution Service shows the eight-inch ceremonial dagger used by Digwa

The video begins with police arriving at the scene, as Digwa’s father Moga Singh holds Mr Nowak upright while he is slumped against a house.

The killer – who claimed he had been the victim of a racist assault – tells the officers present that he has been injured and points to his eye.

Digwa is seen in the video without his turban on and tells police it is because Mr Nowak tore it off in a violent attack.

However, the court was previously told that the murderer had the turban on after stabbing his victim and must have taken it off himself before police arrived.

Judge William Mousley KC said he was ‘sure’ Mr Nowak never said anything racist to the murderer.

Reform UK leader Mr Farage said Mr Nowak was ‘actually treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder’.

He said the last thing Mr Nowak heard on this Earth was being read his rights by officers as he lay dying on a pavement in handcuffs.

‘What does he say? I can’t breathe,’ Mr Farage said.

‘Familiar words. Remember career criminal George Floyd, who died in appalling circumstances in Midwest America a few years ago.

‘Remember the reaction to that and the way the police behaved? Within a few days Keir Starmer was taking the knee. Black Lives Matter exploded all over the country. Churchill’s statue was defaced, the cenotaph was vandalised.

‘And yet, what has the public reaction been from our leaders and politicians, and indeed, to be frank, much of the media to this?

‘Silence, absolute silence. Proof, if ever there was any, that we are living in a two-tier culture in this country where the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities.’

Mr Farage vowed to write to the Attorney General to ask for Digwa’s sentence to be reviewed for being unduly lenient.

‘Henry’s family have responded to this in just the most extraordinarily dignified way, but I suggest the rest of us respond to this with pure cold rage,’ he said.

‘This is wrong. All the values and standards of living in a free country where everybody is judged equally before the law have been trashed and thrown away.’

The biggest fear police officers now face is ‘the fear of being reported for acting in a way that was racially biased’, he said.

Mr Farage added that there needed to be an end to ‘anti-white prejudice’ and a recognition that ‘white lives matter’.

Mr Farage said: ‘The most important thing that needs to change, that has to change, if our society is not to be ripped apart, where communities start to distrust each other and deeply distrust the police and all the other institutions of this country, is we need a change in culture.

‘Enough of anti-white prejudice, a promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives.

‘An end to DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) and positive discrimination, but a country that treats everybody equally and fairly before the law.

‘This is serious. This is urgent. I fear for where our society will be in a few short years if we don’t grip this and do it very, very quickly.’

Mr Farage reposted the video on social media last night, describing it as ‘the most shocking footage of discrimination that you will ever see’.

‘A white boy being handcuffed by police officers more concerned by an accusation of racism than an act of murder. This must be a turning point. White lives matter too,’ he said.

Robert Jenrick also reposted the footage, which he described as ‘harrowing’, saying: ‘He was the victim, but treated like a criminal.’

After the killer’s sentencing, Mr Nowak’s family criticised police for letting him die without ‘dignity’.

Mark Nowak, the teen’s father, said ‘justice alone is not enough’, adding that the way his son was treated, compared to Digwa, was ‘unbearable’.

‘Let me be absolutely clear – we hold Vickrum Digwa solely and 100 per cent responsible for the brutal murder of our son,’ the father said.

‘But Henry should not have died on the streets of Southampton in police custody. The way he was treated was inhumane and degrading.

‘His murderer, however, was afforded decency. He was believed. He was not handcuffed when arrested. He was not handcuffed when transported to the police station. As far as we understand, he was never handcuffed at all.

‘And, as Vickrum Digwa himself told the court, while under arrest for Henry’s murder, police even took him to the kitchen so he could choose his food. The contrast is unbearable.’

An image released by the CPS of killer Digwa wearing a Sikh kirpan ceremonial knife

The knife used by Digwa is pictured after he murdered his 18-year-old victim

Last night Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage reposted the video on social media

Digwa, 23, was found guilty of murdering student Henry, 18, with an eight-inch ceremonial blade

As family members wept outside court, Mr Nowak addressed his son, saying: ‘I want Henry to know wherever he is we are so proud of him and we love him beyond words.’