Nottingham attacks: Why so many missed chances to stop Valdo Calocane?
This Is Why
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Valdo Calocane fatally stabbed 19-year-olds Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar and school caretaker Ian Coates in Nottingham in June last year.
Speaking outside court, relatives of the victims criticised police, prosecutors and the NHS – saying they felt "let down" as Calocane’s mental health issues were widely known.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson looks at what more could have been done to prevent the killings as he's joined by our communities correspondent Becky Johnson and Lisa Townsend, who is Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey and mental health lead for the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners.
Since recording this episode, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said the organisation had "robustly" reviewed its care of Calocane between May 2020 and September 2020. It added that it will continue to work with the police and health services to learn lessons.
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| 0:59.9 | I'm Neil Patterson, a welcome to the Sky News Daily. Every so often, a criminal case |
| 1:05.9 | catches, perhaps even demands the public's attention. Sometimes it's because of the victims, sometimes because of the nature of the crime, |
| 1:14.7 | and occasionally because of missed opportunities. |
| 1:18.4 | Valdol Kalakani will now be detained in a high security hospital, |
| 1:22.7 | likely for much, if not the remainder of his life, |
| 1:26.0 | for the killings of students Barnaby Weber and Grace |
| 1:29.5 | O'Malley Kumar and school caretaker Ian Coates. Yet, Calilcanny's mental health problems were |
| 1:38.1 | widely known. He'd been sectioned multiple times, diagnosed with psychosis and paranoid schizophrenia. |
| 1:44.9 | The authorities were aware that he wasn't taking his medication. |
| 1:47.9 | He had attacked people, including a police officer, |
| 1:51.5 | for which an arrest warrant had been issued and was outstanding when he committed these heinous crimes. |
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