'I just wanted to make sure Barney was okay. Then it came up on the news... his phone was on that street': Barnaby Webber's grieving mother's heartbreaking first interview

EXCLUSIVE 'I just wanted to make sure Barney was okay. Then it came up on the news..

. his phone was on that street': Barnaby Webber's grieving mother's heartbreaking first interview By Rebecca Hardy Published: 06:56 EDT, 13 August 2024 | Updated: 07:06 EDT, 13 August 2024 e-mail View comments Today, a devastating report into the murders of Nottingham students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar and caretaker Ian Coates heavily criticised mistakes by police and medics. It revealed a 'series of errors, omissions and misjudgments' in the treatment of their killer Valdo Calocane before he launched his knife rampage on the streets of Nottingham last June.

Earlier this year, Barnaby's mother Emma gave her first interview to the Mail in which she described the devastating moment she learned her son had been murdered. Read it here: The last text Emma Webber has on her phone from her 19-year-old son Barney was sent on June 10 last year and ends with a rolling eye emoji. They were messaging each other while she watched his younger brother Charlie in a cricket match near their home in Taunton, Somerset.

'Barney was playing for Nottingham University that afternoon. He told me he'd smashed a 50 and couldn't wait to play for his local club when he came home for the summer. 'I said, "Well, you're going to have to get a job as well, you know.

" So his last text to me was, "Yes, yes. Eye roll emoji."' But Barney never came home.

Three days after that text message was sent, he and his close.