Three charged over disorder at Henry Nowak protest

Three further men have been charged after protests in Southampton earlier this week following the murder of Henry Nowak.

Connor Bishop, 24, of Oxford Street, Southampton, Reece Robinson, 21, of Soberton Road, Havant and Noah Etherington, 18, of Rowbury Road, Havant, have been charged with violent disorder.

It comes in the wake of protests following the sentencing of Vickrum Digwa, 23, to life imprisonment to serve a minimum of 21 years for the murder of 18-year-old Nowak in December.

Hampshire police said they are all due to appear at Southampton Magistrate's Court later.

Protests were held on Tuesday after police bodycam video was released showing Nowak being placed in handcuffs by police who ignored his pleas that he could not breathe as he lay dying.

The treatment of the 18-year-old student, from Chafford Hundred in Essex, triggered a political row, with the prime minister urging politicians to heed the teenager's relatives' calls not to use the case "to cause disturbances".

Daniel Frost, 44, of Southampton, pleaded guilty on Thursday to violent disorder and possessing a dog lead with a metal carabiner as an offensive weapon following the protests.

A second man, 50-year-old Matt Styler, of Gosport, pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer.