A police officer who has been wrongly accused of being involved in Henry Nowak’s arrest has told GB News she is receiving regular deaths threats due to the misidentification.
Christi Hill, who worked for Hampshire Police for 11 years, has been targeted as an officer involved in the slain 18-year-old’s arrest despite not even working for the force at the time of the incident.
Speaking to GB News’s Ben Leo last night, Ms Hill said: “I’ve received death threats, threats of extreme violence. People are trying to find my family or people that know me.
“It has been really tough to read the comments – it has been an absolute onslaught.”
Attention first turned to Ms Hill as being possibly involved in the case when she and another officer appeared in a photo together, at what was described as a “bravery award occasion” which was subsequently circulated online.
People began to, unfoundedly, claim Ms Hill and the other officer were involved in Mr Nowak’s arrest.
However, Ms Hill said it was “impossible” for her to be involved in the incident as she left Hampshire police in April 2024.
She told the People’s Channel: “I left Hampshire Constabulary in April 2024, and the tragic event with Henry Novak happened in December 2025. So it’s impossible for me to have been anywhere near the incident.”
Henry Nowak was murdered by Vickrum Digwa in December 2025 but died in police custody after his killer accused him of being racist
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HANDOUTOn December 3 last year, Mr Nowak was fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa after an altercation broke out between the two men.
Instead of calling for medical help, Digwa, with the help of his family, called the police, who arrived at the scene.
In bodycam footage of the arrest, Mr Nowak can be seen lying face down on a gravel driveway.
Mr Nowak then told officers several times “I have been stabbed” and “I can’t breathe”.
Vickrum Digwa, 23, stabbed Henry Nowak five times with a 21-centimetre blade | PA
An officer responds to the teenager: “You’ve been stabbed? I don’t think you have, mate.”
Three minutes after being arrested, Mr Nowak falls unconscious and is pronounced dead at 00.37am on December 4, 2025.
Since being misidentified as being involved Ms Hill described the “onslaught” as “really scary” and forced to flee to a safehouse for her safety.
She told Ben Leo: “The messages have been coming from a global aspect. This is not just an isolated incident in a small area. This is gone far and wide. It’s really worrying. It’s really scary.”
Hampshire Police have not been supportive, Ms Hill claimed, as she described feeling “let down” by her old employer.
She said: “I’ve had communications with Hampshire Police where I’ve asked, could you please just use my name, use the photo again if need be – be very, very clear that I have nothing to do with that incident and wasn’t a serving police officer at the time of the incident.
“It needn’t be any more than that, and I’ve had nothing in return.”
She told GB News the force eventually agreed to move her to a “safe location”, but outside of this, she has had “next to no communication from them whatsoever”.
Ms Hill said: “They agreed to move me to a safe location, which they have. Other than that, I’ve had next to no communication from them whatsoever and, to be quite honest, feel really let down.”
She said the force are prolonging her ordeal by “not doing the right thing”.
“I feel like it’s one that I’ve now been kept in by Hampshire Constabulary, not doing the right thing and just clearing a name. It could have been squashed now days ago. And that’s sad,” the tormented ex-copper added.
A spokesman for Hampshire Police said: “The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is continuing its independent investigation into our response on the night in question, following our self-referral the next day.
“While that progresses, we ask that people avoid harmful speculation online.”