Deportation

In coverage on 16 October 2026, 5 and BBC ONE West reported on Kiran Kaur, the mother of Vikram Digwa. Both channels said she could be deported, and BBC ONE West said she could also be released early from prison. BBC ONE West described her as an Indian national. 5 reported that she was jailed for three years in July for removing the knife her son used to kill student Henry Nowak from the crime scene. BBC ONE West reported that she was jailed for three years at the same time as her son, who received 21 years, and that she had tried to hide the knife used in the attack last December. BBC ONE West reported that under early release rules she could be eligible for release at the one-third point of her sentence, with the rest served in the community on a tag and under supervision, as part of measures to ease prison overcrowding. It said she had spent seven months on remand and that by December she would have spent a year in prison. 5 reported that she could serve less than half of her sentence under the government's early release scheme. BBC ONE West also reported that Kiran Kaur had been served with a warning that she was at risk of deportation because she is not a British national and had received a sentence of more than one year. It said whether she is removed from the UK would be a complex question dealt with case by case by a judge, noting her settled family life and family in the UK after many decades.

Key Claims by Channel

Claim
Reported by all 2 channels
The mother of Henry Nowak's killer is to be released early from prison.		Reported by BBC One
Kiran Kaur was sentenced to three years in prison for hiding the knife her son Vikram Digwa used in an attack in Southampton last December.		Reported by BBC One
Kiran Kaur may be deported to India because she is a foreign national.		Reported by BBC One
Kiran Kaur is the mother of Vikram Digwa, who murdered student Henry Nowak.	Reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC One
Only on one channel
Vikram Digwa received a 21-year sentence.	Not reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC One
Kiran Kaur spent seven months on remand awaiting trial and would have served a year in prison by December.	Not reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC One
Any decision to remove Kiran Kaur from the UK would be a case-by-case question for a judge, with her settled family life and family ties in the UK relevant.	Not reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC One

This is a cross-channel consensus summary, not an objective account. Consensus can be uniformly wrong, or omit what only one channel covered.