US Vice President JD Vance has used the murder of British teenager Henry Nowak — fatally stabbed in Southampton in December 2024 by Vickrum Digwa, a British-born Sikh man who falsely accused Nowak of racial abuse before he was handcuffed by police as he lay dying — to advance an anti-immigration agenda, posting on X that Nowak "died the same way a civilization dies" and blaming European elites for permitting "the mass invasion of migrants." The US State Department also weighed in, describing the case as evidence of "civilizational decline" across the West. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stopped short of naming Vance directly but accused unnamed foreign actors of "trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division," while Nowak's own family has asked that his death not be used to foment further hatred or tension.