Review of killer's care finds 'a series of errors'

A review has found "a series of errors, omissions and misjudgements" in the care of a killer who stabbed three people to death in the Nottingham attacks. Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and 65-year-old Ian Coates were killed by Valdo Calocane, who was psychotic and suffering from paranoid delusions, on 13 June 2023. The review, published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on Tuesday, said without action, the issues identified would "continue to pose an inherent risk to.

.. public safety".

The government met the victims' families last week and called for the CQC's recommendations to be implemented in mental healthcare across England. The families confirmed the meeting with the Department of Health and the Attorney General's Office, which both told the BBC that the prime minister's commitment to a judge-led inquiry into the deaths still stood. However, the families have insisted the inquiry must be statutory, with the power to compel witnesses to provide evidence.

Last year, Calocane went on a rampage through the streets of Nottingham, killing students Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar with a knife as they returned from a night out, before stabbing Mr Coates to death near the school where he worked as a caretaker. He then stole Mr Coates's van and drove into pedestrians Wayne Birkett, Marcin Gawronski and Sharon Miller, inflicting serious injuries. He was sentenced to a hospital order in January and told he would be in a high-security facility "very probably" f.