How Elon Musk doxxed an innocent man to ‘create havoc’ after Henry Nowak murder

What’s the story?

“When is this scumbag going to prison?” Elon Musk asked on X, about a police officer pictured on social media and named for involvement in the incident in which 18-year-old Henry Nowak died in December 2025.

But he was speaking about the wrong man.

He was commenting on one of two people wrongly identified as officers who did not believe Nowak when he said he had been stabbed, and instead of helping the teen, handcuffed him as he died on the floor.

Musk, who previously endorsed Nigel Farage and Reform UK, but who has since switched to backing Rupert Lowe and his Restore Britain party, has posted and shared several comments on Nowak. These included a statement to his 240 million followers blaming DEI for the teen’s death, and accusing the UK of creating an “evil state religion” which protects migrants above else

“This is grotesque, but what on earth do you do with someone like Elon Musk, who has such copious amounts of power and seemingly so little responsibility for what he does with it?” Jon Sopel asks.

“There now seems to be a lynch mob deciding what justice looks like.”

Both individuals wrongly identified as being involved have faced death threats and harassment online after far-right trolls shared their names and photos.

“It feels that social media is doing due process, the rule of law and deciding who should be held responsible,” Jon adds.

“Those who are making judgments know absolutely sod all because they've misidentified somebody.”

“Internet sleuths have decided that he is responsible for the terrible policing that took place when Henry Novak died. His face has been put out there, it's been amplified by the likes of Elon Musk and, hey presto, your life is turned upside down.”

This is all coming from the far-right of politics, he adds, which loves to remind voters that they are the supposed parties of ‘law and order’.

‘Musk believes it is his duty to create havoc’

Keir Starmer has addressed Musk’s involvement, accusing the billionaire of attempting to “whip up division” in Britain.

Lord David Blunkett, former Home Secretary under Tony Blair’s Labour government, tells The News Agents that Musk “believes that it's his bounden duty to create havoc – and this is a way of doing it.”

“He's aided and abetted by both Reform UK and Restore, in terms of stirring up hate and resentment, and it's very difficult to overcome that,” Blunkett says.

“Once people have absorbed the notion that this terrible tragic death demonstrates something about inequalities more broadly in our society, it's very hard to get that out of their heads.”

He says the UK cannot ban X, due to the likelihood of “profound ramifications” of doing so.

“In a sane world, you would say we're simply not going to put up with any of this, but we're not living in that kind of environment,” Blunkett adds.

“It is a bit like the wild west. It's, it's the law of the jungle. It's the hanging mob.

“We need to be able to protect people who are perfectly innocent from being abused personally. Otherwise, this is a lynch mob, and we can't have that.”

Violence ‘suits the purposes of people looking to make electoral gain’

Nowak’s family have said they do not want his death to be used to stoke hate and division in the UK, but people like Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe have done exactly that.

Emily Maitlis says it was “inevitable” that their wishes would be ignored.

“They asked the country as a whole to focus on knife crime, asking people to understand where things had gone wrong in the policing, but also in the murderer who was carrying a 21 inch dagger,” Emily says.

“Yet how quickly this has spiralled into something that frankly suits the purposes of people who are looking to make electoral gain.”

In 2021, after the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer, it was Farage who was asking people not to turn the incident into an attack on British police.

“Five years on, look where we are,” Emily adds.

“The right is fighting with itself to be the party that doxxes, outs-incites and whips it up.”

She says Farage’s statements have skirted close to incitement but stop before hitting any point where he can be directly blamed, and believes his actions may be due to the pressure of the upcoming Makerfield by-election, where his hard-right party is facing serious challenge for votes from Rupert Lowe’s Restore UK.

“Farage doesn't get his words wrong that often. He tends to know where he's going with his language,” she says.

“It is not a good look for the Reform leader to be going against the wishes of a dead boy's family.”

Blunkett says that when Farage says things “could get worse”, that isn’t just a prediction, it’s both “incitement” and “legitimising what happened” in Southampton when Tommy Robinson supporters clashed with police in a protest supposedly held in Henry Nowak’s name.

“If we don't stand up and see-off people who are taking this particular political line in order to win support, then we'll regret it at great length,” he says.

Listen to the latest episode of The News Agents.