Paranoid Schizophrenic Sentenced to High-Security Hospital for Triple Murder in Nottingham

Valdo Calocane, who fatally stabbed two students and a janitor, also admitted to three counts of attempted murder. Victims' families criticize police and prosecutors for not trying Calocane for murder.

Valdo Calocane, a 32-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to likely spend the rest of his life in a high-security medical facility for fatally stabbing two college students and a school janitor in Nottingham, England.
Calocane was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia when he stabbed students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, to death with a dagger in Nottingham in the early hours of last June 13.
Calocane also admitted three counts of attempted murder after hitting three pedestrians in a van he had stolen from Mr. Coates.
Family members of the victims criticized police and prosecutors, saying they had been railroaded last November into accepting their decision to not try Calocone for murder.
At the time of his rampage, Calocane was wanted on a warrant for failing to appear in court for assaulting an officer nine months earlier, on one of several occasions when police had taken him to a mental hospital.