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Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane’s sentence to be reviewed for being ‘unduly lenient’

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Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane’s sentence to an indefinite hospital order will be referred to the Court of Appeal for being “unduly lenient”, the attorney general has said.

Calocane stabbed to death Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham on 13 June last year.

The engineering graduate, who has paranoid schizophrenia, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility, which was accepted by the Crown Prosecution Service last month.

Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane (PA)

Judge Mr Justice Turner , saying

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