Victims’ families: true justice has not been served 6 FREE
Barclays Women’s FAMILIES who are grieving for the victims of the Nottingham rampage killer are horrified he has not been tried for murder. The relatives have criticised the Crown Super League Stickers from Prosecution Service for accepting Valdo Calocane’s guilty pleas to manslaughter.
He was yesterday sentenced to an indefinite hospital order for killing 19-year-old students Grace O’malley-kumar and Barnaby Webber, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, in June last year.
Barnaby’s mum Emma said: “True justice has not been served.” She accused the CPS of not consulting them before deciding not to put Calocane on trial for murder, adding: “We were horrified.”
Emma said: “We trusted in our system – foolishly as it turns out.” The CPS made the decision after psychiatrists said Calocane was suffering from “treatmentresistant” paranoid schizophrenia.
Not being tried for murder meant he could not be handed a whole-life prison sentence. Families have also blasted officers and health services.
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Emma, 51, said of the police: “You have blood on your hands.
“If you had done your jobs properly, there’s a very good chance my beautiful boy would be alive today.”
Outside Nottingham crown court after the sentencing hearing, she added the three victims were “stolen from us for ever and let down by the very system that should be protecting us”.
There were missed opportunities by various agencies that may have prevented the tragedy.
Calocane, 32, had been on the run from police for nine months when he launched the killing spree.
The former Nottingham University student was sectioned four times after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in© 2020 but was released into the community each time. Pick up a copy Ian’s son James, 38, said Calocane “got away with murder”, adding: “Failures from the police, CPS and health service resulted in the murder of my father and two innocent
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Grace’s dad Dr Sanjoy Kumar said the “missed opportunities to divert his lethal path will for ever play on our minds”. Mr Justice Mark Turner ordered Calocane to be detained indefinitely at Ashworth secure psychiatric hospital on Merseyside. Calocane can only be discharged with the avgoreuecmheernrteoqfutirheed.
Secretary of State for Justice.