Digwa’s brother, primed by Vickrum, called the police to attend a racist attack. What was it about those words, “We have just been attacked racially by some white person”, which made them ignore all the evidence in front of them and to handcuff — a minute after arriving — the victim? What was it that made them ignore Nowak’s condition, his gasping, “I can’t breathe” (no wonder; his chest cavity was filled with blood) and “I’ve been stabbed”? Why, in short, did they ignore the evidence of their own eyes and took the murderer to be the victim when the victim was gasping his life out? Did Digwa use those words in the expectation that it would exculpate him? Was racism the obvious card for him to play?
