Shabana Mahmood is looking at tighter laws on kirpans – Sikh daggers – after the murder of Henry Nowak in Southampton. His murderer Vikrum Digwa has has his minimum sentence increased from 21 to 25 years…
Mahmood told ITV she has “not taken any options off the table” and said that recently some Sikhs have begun carrying much bigger, visible kirpans which differ from the discreetly worn blades most Sikhs carry. Digwa killed Nowak with an eight-inch blade he persuaded the court was a kirpan. He was also carrying a small kirpan…
The Criminal Justice Act 1988 lets baptised Sikhs with the required spiritual training carry a kirpan. The Nowak family is campaigning to have the kirpan defined in law – size, type, and so on…
Digwa’s mother, Kiran Kaur, was jailed for three years for hiding the weapon and is reportedly due out in about a month. Meanwhile – 14 years for failing to charge Labour’s new Tourist Tax…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”