Nottingham Killer ‘Was Free to Carry Out Rampage Because Health Workers Feared Detaining Him Would Be Racist’

The paranoid schizophrenic who killed three people in a rampage in Nottingham was released by mental health workers who had looked at ‘research that shows the over-representation of young black males in detention,’ an inquiry heard today.

Valdo Calocane had previously tried to kick down a neighbour’s front door in 2020, and mental health workers had to consider whether to section him.

Valdo Calocane

The woman was so scared she had to jump out of a first floor window, causing a serious spinal injury.

The inquiry heard that the decision to treat Calocane in the community should have been “based purely on his current needs, acuity of symptoms and the risks”, and not based on the patient’s demographic.

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Mental health professionals eventually decided to release him into the community after considering “research that shows over-representation of young black males in detention”, the inquiry heard.

Three years later he fatally stabbed Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, university students aged 19, and Ian Coates, 65.

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He killed Grace and Barnaby as they walked back to their halls after a night out on June 13 2023.

He inflicted ‘grave injuries’ on Barnaby and then also knifed Grace as she tried to defend him, the inquiry heard.

After stabbing the two of them to death, he tried to climb into a home through a window but was shoved away.

He then reached Magdala Road where he found caretaker Ian.

He knifed him to death, stole his van and used it to ram into three pedestrians, Sharon Miller, Marcin Gawronski and Wayne Birkett.

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