Overview

• The University will confer degrees on Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar at its July 2025 graduation after they were killed in the June 2023 Nottingham attack.
• Officials are collaborating with the victims’ families to design a fitting tribute during the commencement ceremony.
• Charlie Webber, 17, will travel to Nottingham to accept his brother Barnaby’s degree on the family’s behalf.
• Valdo Calocane pleaded manslaughter by diminished responsibility due to paranoid schizophrenia and remains under an indefinite hospital order.
• A statutory public inquiry into multi-agency failings in policing, prosecution and mental health care is still pending.