The mother of one of the students stabbed to death in Nottingham has told of how she “could not see” beyond her son’s loss soon after his funeral, but vowed she will have a happy home again as she backed the call for a public inquiry into any failings that led to the attacks.
Emma Webber laid bare her grief in an interview with the Daily Mail, in which she told of seeing her son Barnaby’s phone location in Ilkeston Road – where he and fellow student Grace O’Malley-Kumar were attacked – and then in a police station before finding out what had happened.
Valdo Calocane stabbed the 19-year-olds and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, to death with a dagger in Nottingham in the early hours of last June 13.
A judge handed down a hospital order to the 32-year-old, who has paranoid schizophrenia and whose pleas to manslaughter by diminished responsibility were accepted earlier this week.
The families of the three people he killed have reacted angrily to the sentencing and accused prosecutors of a “fait accompli” in accepting a manslaughter charge rather than pursuing a murder verdict.
TalkTV host Peter Cardwell speaks to former Met detective Peter Bleksley who urges anyone to come forward if they have knowledge of Valdo Calocane being a cannabis user in order to bring "fresh new evidence" to the case.
Peter Bleksley says: "It might lead to him being actually tried for murder! If his mental illness was brought about by drug use - he cannot then plead guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility!"
