Chief Constable Boon is asked by the BBC's Lucy Manning whether he would consider his position as the head of the force.

He replies that he is not resigning and is awaiting the outcome of the independent investigation to determine "what we should do differently".

Boon adds he "can't prejudge" what the investigation will determine, but they will implement anything that is recommended.

That's the end of Hampshire Police Chief Constable Alexis Boon's interview with the BBC - we'll recap the key lines shortly.

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Alexis Boon describes the scenes on the streets of Southampton on Tuesday night as "disgraceful", and says people arrived "intent" on violence and causing damage.

He says he "feels really sorry" for the community, and that his force put a "robust and good policing operation together".

Officers worked "bravely and courageously" to protect the community despite having missiles thrown at them and suffering "horrible abuse", he says.

They did their job "very successfully", he adds.

The Hampshire Police chief constable is asked about Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's call for "pure cold rage" in response to the incident.

Boon says it's "not for me" to comment on individual politicians, but adds that they have "a level of responsibility" - and most "would not want to see" that violence and disorder on the streets.

Officers need to be held to account, he says, but they also need support from politicians.

Asked about what has happened to the four officers involved in Henry Nowak's arrest, Boon says they are being treated as witnesses by the IOPC.

He says they are not suspended, but are not currently on frontline duties. One of the four has left the force, though not in relation to the incident - as we reported earlier.

The chief constable refuses to be drawn on what the IOPC might find about their conduct.

He says some of the violence seen in Southampton on Tuesday night is an example of people prejudging evidence and making assessments of what may or may not have happened, and "using it as an excuse to commit violence".

The chief constable is asked whether he believes racism was a factor in the way officers responded to the incident.

Boon says the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) will look at that during their investigation.

Asked whether he thinks there has been too much of a move in policing to take account of factors like anti-racism, Boon says "there's an argument and a narrative out there that that is the case".

But, he adds, he doesn't recognise allegations of "two-tier policing" which have come from figures including Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

He says he sees officers "day in, day out" doing their job for all communities, without fear or favour.

Boon says there is an independent investigation under way into what happened, and asks people not to pre-judge its conclusions or make assumptions before all the evidence is considered.

Nonetheless, he says, you cannot fail to be moved when watching the bodycam footage of Henry's arrest.

The chief constable is asked by the BBC's Lucy Manning what he thinks of his officers' actions as shown in the bodycam footage.

He says they respond to "really difficult, unpredictable situations, and we need them to do that day in day out", and reiterates that there is an independent investigation which will aim to understand "what they did and why they did it".

That said, Boon adds that he is concerned people are using the situation "to propagate violence".

The footage is "distressing" but "what we mustn't do is prejudge what was in the officers' minds".

The head of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary tells the BBC the force is "sorry for handcuffing and arresting Henry".

In an interview with the BBC's Lucy Manning, Chief Constable Alexis Boon says the bodycam footage of Henry Nowak being arrested and handcuffed after telling officers he had been stabbed was a "very difficult watch".

"What was filmed there is a tragedy, an absolute tragedy, you can't help but be affected by it."

He adds: "I really feel for the family of Henry at this time."

The chief constable says he understands "their point of view and why they're upset with the police", which he says is why the force have said "we are sorry for handcuffing and arresting Henry" at that time.

Lucy Manning
Special correspondent, reporting from Southampton

Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Donna Jones says Henry Nowak's family were "disappointed" to see the violent protests in Southampton on Tuesday night.

Jones tells the BBC she has spoken to the 18-year-old's family, who told her: "They do not support protests, they do not support the kind of unrest that we saw on the streets.

"They've called for calm, and if you recall back to Mark Nowak's statement on the steps of the court on Monday this week, when his son’s murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment, he actually said quite the opposite - he asked for calm and he asked for reflection.

"What they don't want is hate and division coming off the back of the tragedy of Henry's death.”

Southampton Test MP Satvir Kaur has been out meeting constituents who were affected by last night's disorder.

The Labour MP says: "The brutal murder of Henry Nowak has really shook our community to its core and people are rightly really upset, distressed and sad.

"And actually last night's riots have made people scared too.

"I'm speaking to mums who are scared to send their children out and people that are too scared to actually open the door.

"Southampton is a great, strong, diverse city and what happened last night does not reflect us."

Duncan Kennedy
South of England correspondent, reporting from Southampton

The streets around the protest area are now calm, but there's a lot of clearing up being done.

This is an area of semi-detached houses and student accommodation. Amid the umbrellas and driving rain, local resident Sophie tells me she had a brick smash her car window.

"It was very frightening," she says, "there were missiles being thrown and smoke bombs being let off."

Another neighbour had his fence trampled and a brick wall torn down, to be used as missiles by the demonstrators.

The man, who didn't want to be named, says he "didn't dare come out, it was that bad".

Nick Johnson
Reporting from Southampton

A shrine to Henry Nowak has been placed outside a local police station, only a few moments’ walk from the epicentre of last night’s disorder.

Some of the placards bearing Henry’s picture also carry a logo of the group Remigration Now.

Remigration Now is a group that calls for remigration, which is widely understood to mean the mass "return" or deportation of people with a migrant background.

Nikki Mitchell
Home Affairs correspondent, BBC South

We believe the officers arrived at the scene of the stabbing in pairs - so two arrived first, then two more soon after.

When the Nowak family read their statement out on the court steps after Digwa was handed a life sentence, they said they believed the officers involved remain on duty, although one resigned and was allowed to leave before giving an account to the police watchdog.

Hampshire Police has confirmed that three of the officers are still serving and one officer has resigned - that was at the end of last year and not as a result of this incident.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating officers' actions and we understand that initial accounts of the incident were given by all the officers there.

More detailed accounts have also been given by all, except the officer who left.

We also know that one serving officer who was not at the scene of the stabbing of Henry Nowak has been wrongly identified online, received death threats and has had to relocate to protect himself and his family.

In the Commons yesterday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood condemned what she called a “dangerous undercurrent” of people making threats towards officers - making “a dreadful situation worse”.

Yesterday, Hampshire Police confirmed the resignation of one of the officers involved in the Henry Nowak case.

Now the force has clarified that the officer who resigned from the force left at the end of last year, and not as a result of the incident. Three officers involved in the case are still serving.

As we've been reporting, the police watchdog - the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) - is investigating the constabulary's handling of the murder, which remains ongoing.

The IOPC has said the officers called to the murder scene are being treated as witnesses, but that this will be kept under review.

Southampton resident Eddie Thomas tells the BBC that last night's protest was "absolutely insane".

He says: "There were bricks being thrown... a bin fire was started literally as we arrived."

Eddie adds that only around a third of the crowd were acting "rowdy" and "violent".

"Most of the crowd were quite young... most of the crowd just stood filming," he says.

Dylan Harwood, who has lived in the area for two years, says: "You could hear it coming down the road - all shouting and screaming and things being thrown at the police officers.

"We stayed quite as far away as we could.

"I understand the cause, but to be outside of a care home with vulnerable residents, kids in houses, throwing scooters and bricks at police... I think it's disrespectful to them."

As we've been reporting, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said on Tuesday it would review the language used in a document outlining anti-racism commitments.

Downing Street says the NPCC is "rightly" seeking to remove "ambiguity" from its commitment in the wage of Henry Nowak's murder.

Keir Starmer’s spokesman tells reporters: “We don’t think that language is right.”

Asked what specific wording it is referring to, the spokesman says that is "for the NPCC to review" and that he would not "go through the guidance line by line".

"The NPCC is independent of government. It’s right that they have the space to review the wording," he adds.

No 10 also says Starmer would be "open to meeting" Henry Nowak's family "if they so wished".

Tuesday night saw protests erupt in Southampton over the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak.

He was killed in Belmont Road in the city's Portswood area while walking home from a night out in December.

Last night, a crowd of several hundred initially took part in a demonstration outside Southampton Central Police Station, before gathering close to the family home of Nowak's killer, Vickrum Digwa, in St Denys.

Nick Johnson
Reporting from Southampton

The Labour leader of Southampton City Council, Sarah Bogle, says she feels it is part of her duty to be at the scene of the disorder today.

Bogle - who has only been in the job for a fortnight - says “these are extraordinary times”, and she wants to be here to reassure local residents.

She tells me quite a few of the protesters had come from outside the city, having “jumped on the gravy train” of a protest which she understood had been organised last minute on social media.

When I ask if she’s concerned about the potential recurrence of last night’s disorder, she replies that she’s speaking to Hampshire Police later to discuss further intelligence.

Eleven Hampshire Police officers who were injured during last night's protest were not seriously hurt, the head of the local Police Federation branch says.

Chairman Spencer Wragg says the "violent and sustained disorder... has no place on the streets of this country".

He adds: "Thankfully none of the injuries sustained by colleagues – including seven by bricks being hurled at them - were serious but this does not diminish the dangers officers faced or the courage they displayed.

"The perpetrators of such violence against our colleagues should and will face the full force of the law. We expect more arrests to follow."

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has denied claims of "two-tier policing", as he accuses Reform UK's leader of exploiting Henry Nowak's murder.

The 18-year-old's murder, and unrest last night in Southampton, were the focus of this week's Prime Minister's Questions.

Speaking from the House of Commons, Starmer acknowledged there are "serious questions" to answer, including on how accusations of racism informed police officers' thinking. He also praised Nowak's family for showing "extraordinary dignity".

Earlier on Wednesday, Hampshire Police said 11 officers and one police dog were injured during protests in Southampton on Tuesday night. The prime minister described the violence as "disgraceful and unacceptable".

Two people were arrested at the protests, police said in an update, with the number expected to rise as investigations continue. Over the next few days, more officers will also be patrolling neighbourhoods, Hampshire Police Chief Constable Alexis Boon said.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has also started an investigation into the handling of Nowak's murder.

Starmer passionate in his condemnation of Farage's approachpublished at 13:37 BST

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Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent

More now from today's Prime Minister's Questions.

The most important exchange of that PMQs was without question the one between Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and the prime minister.

Starmer was passionate, perhaps as passionate as I have ever seen him in the House of Commons, in his condemnation of Farage’s approach.

As Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, did yesterday, the prime minister seized on the comments by Henry Nowak’s father at the conclusion of the court case on Monday - saying that his son’s death should not be used to stoke division.

On the substance of Farage’s point about police anti-racism guidance, while the government disagrees with Farage’s claim there is two-tier policing in the UK, the policing minister has said that guidance is “wrong” and a source close to Mahmood has said it is worded clumsily.

What we also saw in that exchange was an unusual feature of our increasingly multi-party political system.

Farage and Reform UK are a huge force in our politics, but in parliamentary terms they are a minuscule faction.

That added to the drama of the moment, with Farage facing intense jeers and heckles, including from a committed group of Liberal Democrat MPs sitting immediately behind him.

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Ahead of PMQs today, Southampton City Council has published a statement in response to last night's protest, saying: "There is no excuse for the kind of violence and disorder we saw last night."

The council says people commenting from outside the city "should take care not to use language that could inflame tensions".

While strong views on Henry Nowak's murder are understandable, the council says, it is important the Independent Office for Police Conduct is able to carry out an independent investigation.

The council also says its crews are out this morning to clear the damage caused by last night's disorder.

• Earlier, we shared a picture post showing what happened during the protest on Tuesday