US VP Vance blames British student’s murder on migrant ‘invasion’

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US VP Vance

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US Vice President JD Vance on Friday blamed Britain’s handling of the murder of a white student by a Sikh man on what he called civilizational decline caused by an “invasion” of migrants.

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Vance’s comments on the case of 18-year-old Henry Nowak sparked a swift denunciation from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office, which rejected attempts to “interfere in our democracy.”

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“Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit,” Vance said on X.

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“His murder is as tragic as it is enraging.”

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Vance, a longtime critic of European migration policies, called for “righteous anger” in response to the case.

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The case of Nowak, who was handcuffed by police as he lay dying after being stabbed by Vickrum Digwa in the southern city of Southampton in December, has become a lightning rod for right-wing anger around the world and sparked riots in Britain.

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Digwa, 23, lied and told police he was the victim and that Nowak had racially insulted him.

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US tech tycoon Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and a friend of Vance’s, has posted numerous times on the platform about the police response to the stabbing.

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The US State Department then weighed in on Thursday condemning what it said was “ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing” that had led to the case.

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Vance is now the highest-ranking official in US President Donald Trump’s to comment.

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“He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it,” Vance added.

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“Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last.”

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Vance is one of the most vocal proponents of the Trump administration’s pushing of theories of Western civilizational decline due to mass migration.

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The British government rejected the US intervention in the case.

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“We have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets,” a spokesperson for British premier Starmer said in a statement.

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The spokesperson added that the family of student Henry Nowak had said they did not want his killing “to be used to create further division, hatred or tension.”

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Starmer himself accused billionaire Musk on Thursday of “trying to whip up division” in Britain.

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