Families say Nottingham Attack Victims Failed by Authorities
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at whether the system failed victims of the Nottingham attacks.
Families of the victims of the Nottingham attacks are calling for a public inquiry into the case. Valdo Calocane was given a hospital order on Thursday for killing Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, as well as Ian Coates, 65, in June. But Mr Webber's parents said they were "horrified" and "disgusted" there were no immediate plans for an inquiry.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Ifti Majid said the organisation had "robustly" reviewed its treatment of Calocane between May 2020 and September 2022.
Nottinghamshire's police and crime commissioner Caroline Henry said the attacks were a tragedy that no-one could have foreseen. However, she said she was seeking reassurance from Nottinghamshire Police over outstanding warrants. She said she was confident the force delivered a good service overall but there was "always room for improvement".
James is joined by Chair of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS mental health trust and former inspector, Zoe Billingham, former director of public prosecutions, Lord Ken MacDonald and East Midlands today reporter, Emily Anderson.
And, three US troops have been killed in a drone attack on a US base in Jordan. But who was behind the attack? Our chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet drops into the studio to tell us more. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by James Cook. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The assistant editor was Chris Gray. The senior news editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's James here. |
| 0:05.9 | Adam is off for the next fortnight and I am sitting in the chair for the next two weeks, |
| 0:11.8 | although the chair today is actually in Glasgow and it |
| 0:14.8 | is going to be a particularly big week for Scottish news because the UK COVID inquiry is sitting |
| 0:21.6 | in Edinburgh and the former first minister Nicholas Sturgeon will be questioned by that inquiry on Wednesday. |
| 0:28.0 | Much more of that to come on newscasts this week, but right now we're going to look at these horrendous attacks in |
| 0:34.8 | Nottingham last summer and the fallout from them. That's what we're doing on this |
| 0:39.0 | episode of Newscast. |
| 0:41.0 | Newscast. |
| 0:42.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:43.0 | Why can't people buy a house? |
| 0:45.0 | Look at their wages. |
| 0:46.0 | Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math? |
| 0:48.0 | People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 0:52.0 | The era of global warming has ended, |
| 0:54.8 | the era of global boiling has arrived. |
| 0:57.2 | It's the first time ever, I've been able to say, |
| 1:00.0 | well done, Kiea. |
| 1:01.0 | I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house. |
| 1:04.9 | The Prime Minister is not under a death. |
| 1:09.7 | The families of three people who died in Nottingham last summer have been to Downing Street today. |
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