A man identifying himself as a Sikh lawyer has sparked widespread calls for police action after a video emerged showing him defending Henry Nowak’s killer, labelling Britain a “bastard country,” urging crowds to physically confront Tommy Robinson’s supporters at rallies — and allegedly hosting a TikTok Live poll asking viewers to vote on whether to urinate or defecate on Henry Nowak’s grave.
Bobby Singh, who posts under the handle @bobbysinghesq on Instagram, delivered the explosive rant in a video shared widely on X, in which he described convicted murderer Vickrum Digwa — sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 21 years on 1 June for stabbing 18-year-old Henry Nowak to death in Southampton — as “my brother, a baptised Sikh.”
But the rant was not Singh’s only intervention. A separate leaked four-minute TikTok Live clip, which has spread rapidly across social media, allegedly shows Singh alongside other men on a livestream in which participants mocked the murdered teenager, described him as a “dangerous racist who deserved it” and framed the stabbing as an act of fighting “oppression” — presenting it as a message to the “wider UK audience” not to “mess with Sikhs.” Derogatory remarks about white people were also allegedly made toward the end of the stream. Most shockingly, the livestream allegedly included a poll asking viewers to vote on whether to urinate or defecate on Henry Nowak’s grave — content that has been widely described as one of the most grotesque public responses to a murder in recent memory and has prompted calls for the footage to be reported to police and TikTok as potential hate speech and incitement.
In the separately circulated rant video, Singh cursed the United Kingdom throughout, repeatedly calling it the “fucking United Bastard Kingdom” and accusing the British public of allowing far-right figures to gain influence through inaction. He then issued what viewers described as a direct call to physical confrontation, urging members of the Sikh community to mass at future rallies in opposition to Robinson and his supporters. “Next time there’s a bastard rally, I want a hundred fucking thousand people there to fucking combat this motherfucker and his supporters,” he said. He closed with a personal threat directed at Robinson: “If I don’t bring Tommy Robinson and his motherfuckers down, either I go down or that motherfucker goes down. Clip this. Share this. Make sure he fucking understands. Bring it on, Tommy. Bring it on.”
Robinson reacted with fury to Singh’s conduct. He reportedly responded by saying: “If I personally see Bobby Singh, I’ll personally punch his head off.”
The videos have generated hundreds of thousands of views and prompted immediate calls for Singh’s arrest on grounds of incitement to violence and hate speech. Many viewers have demanded a formal response from both police and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
The irony of Singh’s association with Robinson-linked events and his subsequent public defence of Nowak’s killer has not been lost on observers. Singh had previously appeared as a VIP guest at events associated with Robinson — making his apparent celebration of the murder of a young white man whose case Robinson has championed one of the more bizarre episodes to emerge from the already deeply polarised public reaction to the Nowak case.
Mainstream Sikh organisations and community leaders have distanced themselves firmly from both Digwa and Singh. The Sikh Federation UK and prominent Sikh politicians have consistently condemned the murder of Henry Nowak, clarified that Digwa’s weapon was not a standard kirpan and rejected any suggestion that his actions had religious justification.
Henry Nowak’s family have throughout urged against any response that inflames division or targets the Sikh community as a whole, while calling for a full police inquiry into the officers who handcuffed their son as he lay dying after Digwa made a false racism allegation. Their appeal — that the tragedy stems from one individual’s actions and should not be weaponised — has been consistently ignored by those on both sides seeking to exploit the case for their own ends.
