Valdo Calocane: How quiet Nottingham grad from Christian family went on to kill three in monstrous attack

For students at the University of Nottingham, the evening of 12 June marked a cause for celebration. Exams were over, summer lay ahead and for aspiring medic Grace O’Malley-Kumar and history student Barnaby Webber, their futures promised to be bright.

Yet just hours after leaving a nightclub in the city centre and only 200 yards away from their student accommodation, the 19-year-olds fatefully encountered engineering graduate Valdo Amissão Mendes Calocane, who was waiting in the shadows to select his victims.

Mr Webber was repeatedly stabbed with a dagger, while Despite her attempts to defend her friend and scream for help, Calocane turned his attention towards her and was “uncompromisingly brutal” in his assault.