We used to respect the police because they were fair – but now that trust has withered away

AS Henry Nowak lay dying, his murderer Vickrum Digwa played the race card. And it worked. Playing the race card worked so brilliantly for Digwa that he must have believed he was going to get away with murder. Attending police officers unthinkingly and instinctively treated the Sikh murderer as the victim of a racist attack...