I cannot forgive police who viewed video of my stabbed son dying
THE mother of Nottingham victim Barnaby Webber says she will never forgive police officers who viewed bodycam footage of her son dying in the street.
Barnaby and fellow University of Nottingham student Grace O’Malley Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane during a city-wide rampage last June.
In an interview on LBC, Emma Webber said she had discovered that an officer had viewed bodycam footage of her son, taken as police and paramedics fought to save his life.
The force last night said a special constable had been sacked.
Mrs Webber, from Taunton, Somerset, said: ‘We are horrified and sickened to know that police personnel would think it’s appropriate to do anything like that.
‘The police have finally given us details yesterday, because we asked the chief constable and we got a letter last night containing details because we’ve heard lots of varying versions of it.
‘We’ve had an apology for us not being informed in advance, and then we had the detail of how seriously they take this, and officers are specially trained, lessons will be
learnt. But that doesn’t really help with the pain of knowing that people were viewing the bodycam footage of my son in the street and I will never forgive them for that.’
The development came 24 hours after
Attorney General Victoria Prentis KC confirmed she had referred Calocane’s sentence of a hospital order to the Court of Appeal, after concluding it was unduly lenient.
Nottinghamshire Police said the special constable was sacked in December for viewing footage of the incident in Ilkeston Road, where Barnaby and Grace were attacked.
This week, the Mail revealed that two officers had been disciplined over a WhatsApp message one wrote and the other shared, which detailed injuries suffered by the victims.
A source told the Mail the special constable’s misconduct hearing was held in private and chaired by Chief Constable Kate Meynell. The sacked officer has been barred from working as a police officer in the future.