Families criticise hospital order for Nottingham knifeman who killed three
The families of three people killed in a spate of “atrocities” committed by a knifeman with paranoid schizophrenia said “true justice has not been served” as he was handed a hospital order by a judge.
Emma Webber, mother of student Barnaby Webber, 19, who was killed alongside his friend Grace O’Malley-Kumar, also 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, on June 13 last year, said Nottinghamshire Police have “blood on your hands” after Valdo Calocane’s pleas to manslaughter by diminished responsibility were accepted earlier this week.
Her comments came after judge Mr Justice Turner said the 32-year-old would “very probably” be detained in a high-security hospital for the rest of his life as he sentenced him for the “atrocious” killings, as well as the attempted murder of three others.
Speaking on the steps outside after the
