The broadcaster falsely claimed the Reform UK leader called for “white cold rage” over the student’s killing.
The BBC has been forced to issue an apology after one of its presenters sparked an uproar by misquoting Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as calling for “white cold rage” in response to the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak.
Nowak was stabbed to death in Southampton in December by Vickrum Singh Digwa, a 23-year-old Sikh man. When police arrived at the scene, Digwa falsely claimed that he had been the victim of a racist attack.
Bodycam footage from the incident showed that officers believed Digwa’s account, treated the dying student as the suspect, dragged him across gravel and handcuffed him as he repeatedly told officers he had been stabbed and could not breathe. Nowak later lost consciousness and drowned in his own blood.
Digwa was later convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 21 years.
The release of the bodycam video has sparked mass outrage and protests, with violence breaking out during a rally in Southampton on Tuesday.
Farage responded to the footage by saying the case showed Britain was living in a “two-tier culture,” where “a false accusation of racism counted higher at that moment than someone that was dying.”
The Reform UK leader urged the British public to respond to the case with “pure, cold rage.”
However, during Tuesday’s edition of Newsnight, BBC presenter Matt Chorley repeatedly claimed Farage had called for “white cold rage,” using the phrase a total of three times during the broadcast.
In a legal letter cited by British media, Reform UK argued that the misquote was “seriously defamatory” and completely changed the meaning of Farage’s remarks, suggesting he was “invoking race as a basis for public anger” rather than condemning racially skewed treatment by authorities.
Chorley apologized directly to Farage on X on Wednesday, claiming he had “misremembered” the quote.
The BBC also issued an apology, published a correction, and removed the episode from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. The broadcaster said an apology would be aired on Wednesday’s edition of Newsnight.
The misquote comes amid growing anger over government and media attempts to frame outrage over Nowak’s treatment as far-right agitation rather than as criticism of police and government failures.
Critics have accused British authorities of repeatedly dismissing anger over immigration, crime, and two-tier policing as extremism, while using those labels to justify arrests, prosecutions and prison sentences for protesters and online commentators.
The fear of being called racist was greater than dealing with Henry Nowak’s murder.
We should respond to this with pure cold rage.
Britain’s historic way of life is being thrown away. pic.twitter.com/4N6vL76q1F
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) June 2, 2026
I wonder when our sh*t show MSM will apoligize for aiding and abetting crimes against our citizens.
Our do We The People even give them such an easy way out?
Trump is very bad for stopping illegal immigration shame on him
Sikhs are allowed to carry their ceremonial (& sharpened..!) daggers onto aircraft, busses, trains, etc.
Yet, get caught with a pocket knife or a steak knife in your lunch box in the U.K or in some parts of the U.S. & Canada and watch what happens…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirpan
Double fucking standards!!!
& BTW- the legal knife blade length in NZ is 10 CM’s and below….
Ceremonial daggers, turbans; GET RID OF THEM!!!
Ghostie, Sikhs dagger not permitted in cabin in most countries.
MISREMEMBERED? …. my arse . . .
Chorley did not misquote Farage 3 times, he said it on purpose.
He said it on purpose because he was trying to inflame things.
He said it on purpose because the BBC are always pushing minority views.
Exactly
A good moment to pause and recall how everywhere the media and the police supported the government as they inflicted the experimental injection on populations around the world causing death and misery while covering it all up with lies, misdirection and deceit.
Who owns the media, the police and the governments? It’s certainly not the tax-payers and voters.
the same people who own the Big Pharma and weapons / defence companies own the MSM; The J3W$!!!
Ceremonial daggers, turbans; GET RID OF THEM!!!
Police policy isn’t just legislation. Someone inside police will know who told them to behave poorly towards white UK citizens. I encourage Nigel to launch a full and public investigation not only into police, but every government ministry. Housing, benefits, social. welfare, education. Every single ministry from A to Z.
White lives matter more because that is their historical homeland. It is the place where millions of white people died to defend.
People who have no right to be in a country including their offspring must be rounded up and deported to wherever they came from. If these people won’t say where they are from, make a guess and drop them there.
Police around the world seem to think they are respected. Police poor behaviour and actions have little or zero consequences. This includes violence and lying in court. Special courts disciplining police is holding back faith in police.
Masonic U.K. Police…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2NkfpBftV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmXYn9fU-Jc
Obviously, they have a lot to hide…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxc_Mp6TRzk
& how ’bout those checker board hats?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbdFg5mJ4FU
Farage is just a distractor for the party political system. He has no power and is unlikely to have any.
That’s the way the party political system works – it’s a façade, nothing more, nothing less.
The party political system is the problem, not the solution.
If I was Farage I’d sue them and sue them comprehensively, at that.
BBC have a well known track record for making false claims. Sue them Nigel. They are a typical example of the corrupt MSM.