The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer has been jailed for three years for removing the murder weapon from the scene of the crime.
Vickrum Digwa used a 21cm (8in) blade to kill the 18-year-old student, who was walking home from a night out in Southampton on 3 December. He was jailed for life in June with a minimum of 21 years.
Kiran Kaur, 53, of St Denys Road, Southampton, was found guilty at Southampton Crown Court in May of assisting an offender.
Sentencing Kaur, Judge William Mousley KC told her “a responsible parent would have challenged their son” and asked their child to “do the right thing”.
He continued: “You took the knife and put it at home with other weapons in your son’s bedroom.”
By putting it among “a larger collection of ceremonial and other weapons” it would have “helped to conceal what it had been used for” because she wanted him “to avoid being caught”, the judge said.
He acknowledged that Kaur was unlikely to reoffend and said her motive was “mistakenly, to protect your son rather than for any personal gain”.
He added: “However, the seriousness of your offending, requires you to be punished and others who might find themselves in a similar situation to be deterred from doing as you did.”