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Henry Nowak’s death shows ‘catastrophic failure’ in UK policing methods

Sky News Australia

June 4, 2026

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Former Labor senator Stephen Conroy claims Henry Nowak’s death in police custody shows a “catastrophic failure” of UK policing methods. “This is horrendous,” Mr Conroy told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power. “Should the police have responded by handcuffing him when he was saying, ‘I’ve been stabbed’, when he’s saying, ‘I can’t breathe’, that is where there was a catastrophic failure of the policing methods involved. “It’s a tragic outcome, and the reaction is very reasonable.”

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