Published 14.16
Two British police officers are being investigated in connection with the incident when a student was stabbed to death in Southampton in December.
The police treated the 18-year-old as a suspect and not as an injured person. He later died.
The two police officers who are being investigated for gross misconduct were the first on the scene after the knife attack, the IOPC, a kind of police ombudsman, announces.
Stabbed student Henry Nowak was handcuffed as he lay dying on the ground. Both police officers may “potentially have breached the rules of professional conduct”, writes the IOPC in a statement.
Nowak told officers he had been stabbed, but that was initially dismissed. The 23-year-old man who stabbed him claimed Nowak had subjected him to a racial slur.
The 23-year-old was sentenced on June 1 to at least 21 years in prison for murdering Nowak.
