On CCTV, how night of savage violence unfolded
THEY are strolling along a main road after a night out to celebrate the end of their first year at university.
Barnaby Webber and Grace O’MalleyKumar were caught on CCTV chatting as they headed back to their halls of residence on a warm morning on June 13 last year. The pictures were released by police yesterday after the students’ killer Valdo Calocane, was sentenced.
The images also reveal how Calocane was picked up on a network of CCTV cameras in the small hours of that shocking night. He is first spotted arriving at Nottingham station from London before taking a tram to the city’s Wilkinson Street shortly after midnight.
On the tram he stood close to a group of young people enjoying a night out. After getting off, he roamed the nearby Radford district for more than three hours, apparently in search of victims. The court heard he eventually disappeared into a darkened alley off the Ilkeston Road, where he ‘lay in wait’.
The footage issued by police captures Barnaby and Grace further up the road at 3.49am – 11 minutes before Calocane pounced. They were dressed for the warm weather, with Barnaby in blue short-sleeve shirt and Grace in a black strappy top.
As the clock struck 4am, Calocane attacked from behind, repeatedly stabbing the pair. He left them dying – Barnaby in the road and Grace outside a house where she had crawled to find help.
Almost an hour later, at 5.01am, Calocane arrived at a hostel on the other side of the city centre. A camera captured the moment he was repelled by a resident who delivered a ‘right hook’ as he tried to climb through a window.
At 5.10am a camera picked out Calocane walking towards Magdala Road, where he ambushed and killed Ian Coates, 65. The school caretaker was ‘lured’ from his van. Calocane left him dying in the road, taking the van at 5.15am and setting off around the city centre. By 5.23am he was in Mil
ton Street, near the city’s Hilton hotel. CCTV footage shows the van veer across the oncoming lane at speed. Calocane hit Wayne Birkett, 60, who was crossing the road, from behind. His skull was fractured, causing a bleed on the brain.
At 5.29am, a police car spots him and begins a pursuit. A minute later Calocane arrived in Upper Parliament Street, where he swerved on to a pedestrian island to hit Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski, 40.
At 5.35am, officers managed to box the van in on Bentinck Road and Calocane was tasered at the wheel after pulling a knife from his bag. He was dragged from the vehicle and walked to a police car.