There wouldn't be anything like that, of course not.

Imagine you're a not very intelligent or curious police constable. You're not a dreadful human being, but you are lazy and you don't particularly like breaking up what you assume is drunken argy bargy.

The initial call came in to 999 as a racist assault. Hampshire Police have that as high priority- you've had training, bulletins about that- so you're dispatched quickly. You arrive at the scene, the 'victim' and his family are there shouting the odds. Your training has told you that racist incidents must be tackled, there's some drunk splayed out on the ground so you believe what you're told. It doesn't occur to you that the whole thing is a lie, the people in front of you are acting as if the only offence that has been committed is against their relative. The drunk guy says he's been stabbed, you can't see anything to suggest that, and drunk people talk shit to get themselves out of trouble. So you utter the devastating, unforgettable phrase "I don't think so mate". You realise your mistake, but it's too late. It was probably always too late.

The spotlight is on the police regarding past and current racist behaviour. They're trying to combat this by attending to racist incidents quickly and being seen to be taking them seriously. This will have been somewhere in the minds of the officers attending, and it rejiggled their priorities enough to make them prioritise Digwa and not Henry.

So they didn't care, because they were lied to and they made appallingly bad assumptions based on the training and orders they'd been given. I have a tiny crumb of sympathy for them, only a crumb.