Calls for Public Inquiry into Nottingham Knife Attacks Grow
Families of victims and Labour leader demand investigation into perceived lenient sentence and potential failings leading to the attacks.
- Valdo Calocane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to a high-security hospital after he killed Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and Ian Coates in a series of knife attacks in Nottingham last June.
- Calocane had been detained in hospital four times and a warrant for his arrest was issued months before his deadly rampage.
- The families of the victims have expressed anger over the perceived leniency of the sentence and have called for a public inquiry into the case.
- Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has added his voice to calls for an inquiry.
- The attorney general has received a complaint arguing the sentence was too lenient and has 28 days from sentencing to review the request and decide whether to refer the case to the court of appeal.