Vickrum Digwa, his brother and father have appeared in court charged with multiple weapons offences.
Digwa, 23, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 21 years served on Monday for murdering 18-year-old Henry Nowak in Southampton.
He appeared at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to face six counts of possessing an offensive weapon in a private place.
The alleged weapons are a flick knife, an extendable baton, knuckledusters, a machete, swords and kusaris.
Vickrum appeared in the dock accompanied by two security officers. He wore a dark suit, blue tie, and blue turban.
His father, Moga Singh, 52, and his brother, Gurpreet Digwa, 27, appeared alongside him to face the same charges.
Gurpreet faced four additional charges: possessing an offensive weapon, an asp, in a public place; possessing a prohibited weapon, an air rifle; possessing an axe in a public place; and possessing a knife, a kirpan, in a public place.
All of the offences were dated 4 December 2025 – the day after the incident in Southampton in which Mr Nowak was stabbed to death with a kirpan, a Sikh ceremonial knife.
Natalie Angel, prosecuting, asked the magistrates for time for the prosecution to consider which charges against the three defendants to proceed with.
She told the court: “A number of weapons were recovered in this case, the defence has suggested potential guilty pleas.”
Harmail Gill, defending all three family members, asked for an adjournment of at least four weeks for both sides to consider the charges.
He told the court that this would allow them to “be in a position where we are not arriving on the day of court not knowing what charges the Crown are going ahead with”.
Jennifer Pitt, chair of the magistrates, adjourned the proceedings until a further hearing on 9 July.
She released Moga Singh and Gurpreet Digwa on unconditional bail until then, and Vickrum Digwa on technical bail as he is serving a jail sentence.
Ms Pitt told the three 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.”
‘Deeply sorry’
On Tuesday, Digwa’s family apologised to Mr Nowak’s family and for bringing the Sikh community into “disrepute”, but said the tragedy should not be used to “inflame division or hostility towards any community”.
In a statement issued through Sikh PA, the family said: “The loss of a young life is a grief that no family should ever have to carry. We are deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the Nowak family has had to endure.
“We love Vickrum. We will continue to love him. That love does not stand in opposition to the sorrow we feel for the Nowak family. Both are real, and both will remain with us for the rest of our lives.
“We would give anything to turn back time so the path of both Henry and Vickrum never crossed that night. We cannot change what has happened, we just hope that no further pain is caused in its name.
“We apologise to the Sikh community for our son’s actions, which have unfairly brought the community into disrepute.”
