Shabana Mahmood has signalled she is considering a change to knife laws, following the murder of Henry Nowak. The Home Secretary said she had not “taken any options off the table”, after Nowak’s father, Mark Nowak, called for a clearer definition in law of what a Sikh kirpan looks like. Mark Nowak told ITV News: “I fully understand the need to carry a kirpan but surely that should be defined in law, in terms of size and type and whether it should be visible, and so on and so forth. “And therefore, anything else should be made illegal.” Asked about Mark Nowak’s suggestion, Mahmood told the same broadcaster: I haven’t taken any options off the table. I’m also not going in with a fixed mind about what the right clarifications of the law might be. It’s important to get the right balance between religious expression in this country, which is something that many of us of a faith, including myself, hold very dearly, but do so in a way that is within what we expect of our citizens for the purp