A group of 11 Sikh MPs has issued a joint statement distancing Sikhism from the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak, who was fatally stabbed in Southampton by Sikh man Vickrum Singh Digwa.
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The intervention comes amid increasing public anger over the case, which began a debate around UK knife laws and the legal exemptions that allow Sikhs to carry ceremonial blades for religious reasons.
The statement was signed by several high-profile Sikh parliamentarians, including Labour MP and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group of British Sikhs Jas Athwal, health minister Preet Kaur Gill, and Tan Dhesi.
Reiterating their position, the MPs concluded: "This was not about Sikhism. It was about a man carrying an offensive weapon and committing a brutal murder."
