Nottingham attack: Families' anger at Valdo Calocane's sentence

A man who killed two Nottingham University students and a school caretaker has been detained at a high-security hospital.
Valdo Calocane, 32, repeatedly stabbed Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both aged 19, with a dagger as they walked home after a night out to celebrate the end of their exams.
He also knifed school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, to death as he made his way to work at Huntingdon Academy in the early hours of 13 June last year.
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[@sarahwagland1559]

The government should go on trial for letting him into our home.

[@hefeydd_]

Read my comment about this I said the same.

[@user-qj5hv6gg5w]

Did he go into your house?

[@PJ_CJ]

@@user-qj5hv6gg5wguessing English isn’t your first language either

[@taigahiiragi4729]

They want this. They want to replace us.

[@freebeerfordworkers]

Not a good guess these days I have letters from university students 100% white British and they're a lot worse@@PJ_CJ

[@hourbee5535]

And the British armed forces want us to volunteer in droves to defend this system? This injustice? Don’t call me.

[@twisteddancer7773]

​@@DerbysboyAgreed

[@Blake4014]

Agreed, whos going to ever agree to serve this country when its busy demographically destroying our people, and letting in these people that commit crimes on us.

[@shaunhall5391]

Fighting for your country used to mean something stand for something this isn't the United Kingdom anymore hasn't been for a long time

[@northseawolf]

I'd sooner sit back and let the countrys victors change everything. I'd be happy to see a more traditional style leadership get this country back on its feet.

[@drhfuhruhurr4253]

Exactly. Fighting for what!

[@pittuk6500]

Not a "killer" but a "mass murderer" - justice in the UK is a sad joke.

[@yvanetchetov847]

"Mass racism murderer"

[@paulc1553]

Disgusting. This isn't justice. This was murder.

[@Bear_-tv5pi]

How is it not justice? Hes going to a psychiatric hospital indefinitely.

[@DisturbedAidan2]

@@Bear_-tv5piat the taxpayers expense, when he shouldn’t have been allowed to stay in the UK in the first place. Oh and the small matter of getting away with not being sentenced as a murderer.

[@aconcernedcitizen6056]

We don’t have to live like this. Wake up Englishmen!!

[@Lily-zu3yu]

@@DisturbedAidan2If he was he sentenced to prison it wouldn’t have gone down well.

[@catherinehanner284]

So despite his mental health problems he had presence of mind to reply no comment to questions put to him by police. His sentence is a travesty of justice and an insult to his victims and their families.

[@Wishing_you_peace]

Because someone can say 'no comment' does not prove capacity.

[@neeramalhan8724]

Common excuse - Mentally unstable??😮

[@Wishing_you_peace]

@@neeramalhan8724 assessment by a consultant for the court.

[@chrisjames1027]

​@@Wishing_you_peacestop making excuses for that animal

[@catherinehanner284]

@@Wishing_you_peace maybe the voices told him to say it.

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

He should not have been in the country.

[@edaleman2758]

Why wasn't that mentioned during the trial?

[@beafboy01]

Because it's irrelevant. He was 16 when his parents forced him to come to the UK @@edaleman2758

[@waynesidebottom8303]

He was thinking rationally enough to call a family member immediately after stabbing 3 people to death and tell him to get his family out of the country as he had done something bad. Are these the actions of someone supposedly in the throes of a mental health crisis? It is a persons frame of mind at the time of carrying out an act that is relevant not what they were like 6 months or a year before. Very weak CPS. Went for the easiest and cheapest option.

[@JupiterWisdom1111]

RIP Grace, Barnaby, and Ian 😢

[@moerer57]

🙏🙏🙏😢

[@paulharris1502]

The whole judicial system is a bloody disgrace.

[@RebelWithoutACause_]

How is this not being treated as a racist hate crime? The privilege with these types is there for all to see - isn't it wonderful?!

[@AreMullets4AustraliansOnly]

Because it wasn’t racially motivated, and there’s no evidence to believe it was. The man is diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic and had a particularly violent episode and particularly dangerous delusions.

[@melkor2789]

Because the victims are white

[@JupiterWisdom1111]

There's no evidence to suggest such a thing... end of the day, he should not have been allowed out in the community.

[@benkeegans9349]

How these people have the nerve to deny it was racially motivated is sickening.

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

I agree. If the races in these horrific murders and assaults were reversed rent-a-mob would have been out in their thousands screaming about black lives matter.

[@guillandanthony711]

Nothing will bring these innocent people back. I think that our modern society is too gentle towards murderers. These families are suffering. They are traumatised. They will always think about how their loved ones had to die. It breaks my heart. 😢 I wish them strength.

[@benkeegans9349]

Sounds like a terrorist attack to me 😮

[@rodyys]

he's a member of church tho

[@chcsab9770]

​@@rodyyshe was muslim

[@twisteddancer7773]

So much for multiculturalism

[@Smittumi]

Black-crimes-are-collective-bot is functioning normally, I see.

[@dukesb]

Thanks for that nuanced analysis

[@cgs2707]

🥱 not all victims were British so this doesn’t make sense.

[@CarolCartledge]

Multiculturalism doesn’t work the culture of other races and countries doesn’t align with ours 😢😢😢these innocent people didn’t deserve what happened to them rest in peace Barney Grace and Ian 😢😢

[@user-xu9ib9cd6d]

So other races do not do bad things? Mass shootings in USA? Who? Stop bringing race into issues

[@clivefinlay3901]

He had his wits about him to drive a stolen van and to navigate it to the town centre, negotiating traffic, lights and so fourth. He had his wits about him to arm himself with weapons he knew he would need to carry out his diabolical plans. To be in a state of mind that can bring about planning and putting into action what is required to kill three people in different locations means to be in a state of mind that shows lucid and reasoning thinking and therefore pre meditated murder. This was not a sudden confused and momentary on the spot frenzied attack this was thought through and planned.

[@lovealways729]

People who have delusion have their wits about them, jesus.

[@samanthaostrowski6755]

God help the poor families for what they are going through now and in their futures. They'll never get over this shock of losing their lovely family members.

[@stuartlloyd8193]

Government have blood on their hands

[@moerer57]

Absolutely

[@Milkydrummer]

Surely if there was nothing to indicate he’d go on to commit such horrific crimes, he can’t then turn round and use his mental health issues as an excuse? …he either has those issues and should have been sectioned earlier, or was functioning reasonably prior to the incident in which case, he takes responsibility for the murders and attempted murders!

[@daughterofenoch677]

4 X He's been sectioned 4 X before this incident. Probably not properly assessed before his discharge.

[@Wishing_you_peace]

Patients usually have to be violent and/ or actively suicidal to get sectioned in the UK.

[@lukeatbrandynightful]

I have an uncle with schizophrenia, he relapsed during lockdown, it took months to get him sectioned, ruined my grandmas last years, it got to a point where he locked himself in a hotel room, complete mess with him crawling in filth (also has had ms) when the mental authorities finally arrived, they asked him what his name was and what day it was and said he was no danger so couldn’t be took to hospital, just before second lockdown, the radbourne mental health unit in Derby purposely discharged a lot of people with these conditions just to make life easier for them

[@mcfcguvnors]

Tory cuts saw the mentally ill living on public transport or sent to next of kin ,disgraceful that services did not act for your nana

[@juliet7703]

Typical

[@RevealedFilms]

My cousin just got released from there and he shouldn’t have been. He’s been strangling his dad and his sisters are scared to leave their rooms. He’s terrorising the place and it’s been months and they still won’t accept him back. His dad is trying his hardest to go through the court process.

[@jonnyfungus]

The Conservative Party reduced the number of mental health beds in this country by a significant amount. Hence the lack of resources and places to care for people with serious mental illness. Sometimes there just isn’t anywhere to place people who desperately need to be kept safe from harming themselves and others. Sometimes it is as simple as that.

[@amh9494]

Sheet hole country we live in

[@franckcolomb5579]

Black privilege prevailed, as usual

[@samanthaostrowski6755]

Strange how with his mental health condition he was able to do the ", no comment" nonsence.

[@ThomasSmith-wx5xs]

💯

[@Durka-Durka01]

Everyone feeling culturally enriched yet?!!! 🙄

[@dantapaws8395]

Yep. I love the cultural and ethnic diversity of Britain, its one of only a handful of things that are good about this Island. Perhaps DONT focus on this killer's ethnicity, instead concentrate on the fact the Tories 14 years of austerity, greed ,corruption, careless, reckless ways have led to people like this killer being able to walk freely. The cuts have meant the relevant authorities have been stretched and left struggling to do their jobs efficiently, leading to ill people slipping through the net.

[@kanedNunable]

feeling the effects of cuts to mental health for the last 14 years yet?

[@ClarenceBoddicker87]

⁠@@dantapaws8395 Why cant someone focus on the killers ethnicity?

[@Blake4014]

This one was at least big and bad enough they HAD to cover it, but remember the vast majority of similar crimes are covered up. Crime rates always go up when we let these people in big enough numbers into western nations.

[@dantapaws8395]

​@@kanedNunable😂👏👍 well put

[@Pyrrhic537]

What an insult to justice. RIP.

[@bwaynegibson1468]

Diversity at work

[@swapnildabhade2394]

He clearly figured out the whole situation and his escape.

[@distortedsanctuary1424]

Clearly a corrupt judge. We need to start taking law into our own hands.

[@frankkirk3162]

Let down by government soft sentence don't want upset woke people

[@TheStickman17]

He assaulted people but refuse to jail or section him. What the point if they wont implement the law

[@Hell...IsOtherPeople44]

A lot of it has to do with government budget cuts. It's expensive to jail someone, very, very expensive to hold them in psychiatric units, so to get sectioned nowadays, someone has to either try to kill themselves, or someone else, just being psychotic isn't actually enough. I know it's hard to believe.

[@JanBanJoovi-ol1qv]

His actions are that of a murderer rather than someone acting out of insanity. His actions are too calculated to be regarded as effects of madness. How could the judges put down such sentence?

[@danjones3746]

Racism, racism, racism , these poor young people rip 😭😭😭

[@visiow2691]

Had nothing to do with colour

[@julienielsen4462]

@@visiow2691he only targeted white people.

[@volpeverde6441]

​@@visiow2691 everything to do with colour.... a white man would have got life....

[@rameezahmed3231]

​Grace was mixed race her mother irish and father indian ​@julienielsen4462

[@topMonger]

@@julienielsen4462he targeted everyone he saw they just happened to be white

[@TEAMMAURICE]

Where is the justice!? My thoughts are with the victims and their families

[@inthewildwoods]

Mental Health Challenges. Spoken like a true woke senior police officer in this age in this joke of a nation and justice system.

[@64endlesslove]

My heart has broken for these Beautiful innocent lives. The system is broken rip 🙏 💔 😢

[@dutchessoftruth5435]

When will western countries learn?

[@stet8826]

This isn't justice.

[@Based_transition_Clocker]

It isn't real either.

[@freebeerfordworkers]

The killer was sectioned under the mental Health Act four times and released four times I want to know why he was released. People may not be aware of it but lawyers can get people out of mental hospitals if they argue well enough. Did some sympathetic human rights lawyer get him out each time? Secondly the police had a warrant to arrest him for over six months but did not. Could it be because they knew he had been sectioned and whoever got him out the previous 4 times would only get him out again so why waste their time?

[@sandrinecicatello7379]

The same in France is happening.......

[@PoolieYT]

I wonder? Did the voices suggest he say no comment? He had the sanity to know he had done wrong and to say no comment... this country is for the birds... everyday its just getting worse

[@callumduffy1907]

The fact that he listen to a lawyer when advice to say no comment just shows how sane he was🤬🤬🤬 he is nothing but a killer and should spend the rest of his life behind bars

[@anthonypert574]

How many of these people live freely in hotels we pay for

[@mischa6688]

This judge should be disbarred.

[@greencat1976]

Can they appeal ?

[@belindafrisenda4306]

Absolutely 😢heartbreaking 💔 sleep gently Grace🩷 🙏 🩷& Barnaby 🩵🙏🩵 and Ian 🩵🙏🩵 Thinking of their families & friends 😢💔💔💔

[@aconcernedcitizen6056]

We don’t have to live like this. Wake up Englishmen!!

[@barkermush7147]

He phoned his brother straight afterwards, telling them to pack up and leave the country. His brother told him not to do anything stupid. To which he replied, something stupid as already been done. He also answered no comment afterwards. Doesn't sound like somebody who's mentally unfit to stand for murder. He was aware what he was doing was wrong. The system is a total joke, no justice for the innocent life's taken.

[@johndoe-zz1nr]

In US he would have spent rest of his life in jail

[@Happiness11100]

What in God's name created this beast? How could anyone build to this, those poor people and their families. So sorry for them all

[@boxtradums0073]

They were a different colour to him so had no value

[@visiow2691]

@@boxtradums0073This wasn’t race related

[@boxtradums0073]

@@visiow2691 any evidence of that ? Funny how of the colours were reversed it would be assumed straight away that it was race related.

[@shaukanto6406]

​@@visiow2691Of course it's race related. I have a neighbour who clearly hates my guts because of my race, but never once says anything racist towards me. Think of what happened to George Floyd in America that sparked the riots across America and caused protests around the world during the first wave Covid-19 pandemic June 2020. The police officer had his knee on George Floyd's neck, he was already struggling to breathe as he lay on his front chest with his hands cuffed behind his back. The police officer never once said anything racist towards him during that time, but his hate for him clearly showed by his refusal to take his knee of his neck despite Floyd's constant complaint that he could not breathe. He was not a danger to the police officer (Derrick Chauvin) as he was on the ground with his hands cuffed behind him. This callous treatment of him went on for nearly 9 minutes - his death was preventable, but the police officer did not care. As they say, actions speak louder than words.

[@lucasroberts2039]

I wouldn’t call him a beast. What he has done is horrific but if he’s mentally unwell blame the services who should have helped and supported him to make sure this didn’t happen.

[@astonmartin7719]

This judge should be fired and put behind bars. 25 years here in KSA and only a handfull of gruesome crime happened, they were beheaded after few days, Almost zero crime here because people respect the law

[@clarke89]

absolute mess of a sentence what a joke.

[@NLPRD]

How he arrived in UK? Did they questioned him why he comes in the UK? No, so that's it, go back

[@hanoitripper1809]

How long was the sentence

[@MichaelGill-ks7gq]

Sorry 4 your loss and grief. ❤

[@faircomment1841]

Pure murder this, condolences to all the families who lost their loved ones. Hiding behind the Mental Health card has cost innocent lives which should never be forgotten. Disgraced at the outcome of this, shameful!

[@buildingabout3505]

Let's be honest. He was not arrested in time , because he's black. End of.

[@dondraper2488]

The voices in his head told him to answer “no comment” from the get go….

[@Jayne-sl]

Where is he from? Which country in Africa?

[@Cartsp70]

He’ll probably get at least 6 months community service!

[@AndrewMSmith130]

Whether he goes to prison or a secure psychiatric hospital he will still be kept away from the public. I think the difference is that staff in a psychiatric hospital are better equipped to handle someone like him so he won't be a danger to other patients/inmates. We all take for granted the ability to perceive reality from imagination. But the part of the brain of a schizophrenic that is responsible for this ability is damaged, leaving the person unable to distinguish what is real and what their brain is imagining. The film A Beautiful Mind illustrated this VERY well.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

He will probably never be released So in this case, the real scandal is why a violent offender was allowed to slip under the radar for so long Nottinghamshire Police have to explain this.

[@Zoebakerolive]

Need to open the long term mental health facilities we had back in the 80s obviously we know more now and they would not be how they were. Care in the community was and is a big mistake that leaves death in its wake

[@Xenshin-Toru]

He also knifed school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, to death as he made his way to work at Huntingdon Academy in the early hours of 13 June LAST YEAR ???

[@chloeroberts6652]

Wtaf are we doing in this country,3 innocent people butchered and for what,sickening,but he will need to answer to god

[@neeramalhan8724]

Read today that the killer converted recently??? 😡

[@terencegumbs2478]

The police have lost their way.

[@Wishing_you_peace]

So many patients sectioned and released when deemed stable but not well. So, relapse is likely. RIP those victims.

[@juneyshu6197]

Hate crime.

[@Netflix999]

Stupidity is catching and the police and judges have caught it

[@williamclifford4441]

Well, effectively he HAS been given a whole life sentence.

[@freemindthinkerezrapound5071]

At the very least tell me he was assessed by a medical professional before being released and not on a hunch by the chief

[@rnedmondson]

'The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said its three-month review had not identified any conduct or performance issues in relation to the incident.' Well we must really hope the families of those innocent victims can find some way to have a proper independent review of the behaviour of the police and the social services because the IOPC is notorious for covering-up for police failings.

[@dantapaws8395]

DO NOT focus on this killer's ethnicity, instead concentrate on the fact the Tories 14 years of austerity, greed ,corruption, careless, reckless ways have led to people like this killer being able to walk freely. The cuts have meant the relevant authorities have been stretched and left struggling to do their jobs efficiently, leading to ill people slipping through the net.

[@Durka-Durka01]

😂

[@lw3646]

Overall crime has actually fallen over the last 20 years, nice try.

[@kanedNunable]

@@lw3646 no it hasnt. stop simping. they removed fraud from the list of crimes. stop being an idiot and go learn something.

[@Smittumi]

At last, a rational comment.

[@Durka-Durka01]

@@Smittumi 🙄 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@eltoneagle8136]

That's horrible, why this state keeps ppl like this guy free on the streets when they should be locked 🔒 up for the rest of their lives and never ever been released.

[@moerer57]

How does one differentiate between murder & manslaughter ? This ain't justice.

[@thegirlfromru]

Doctor or engineer?

[@elmo4672]

It's MC Ride.

[@ticorrei]

Bloody hell, this is so sad

[@jamesmain8395]

Sounds like that judge was on his side Britain is effed

[@kakarotz9296]

I guess the judge has to do what the voices in his head are saying too? No one pleads the fifth after getting arrested like that if they’re mentally unwell.

[@darrenporter1850]

Maybe they are better people than me, if that was my Family I wouldn't have controlled myself like the parents. Disgusting verdict.

[@Jamiereid6166]

Sensible enough to say no comment to every question,, he is at the capers

[@TomNook.]

Always cross the road and keep your distance

[@Infamous41]

There are many pple like this unfortunately. I know neighbors and past friends who claimed to see shadows walking and explode on family for minor disregards i never understood it, lack of compassion

[@hsugraduation2103]

4:01 excuses, excuses

[@osehojieojeh-oziegbe9463]

Could he have been programmed to do these heinous crimes?

[@paulrose2107]

Low level assaults?

[@djsiuk]

In the USA the attacker would have walked free after the correct treatment. The UK is very poor dealing people with mental issues. We seem to have gone backwards in every thing in the UK.

[@champion9935]

He shouldn’t have been in the country in the first place ffs !!!!!

[@chamamemestre]

Diversity. Great job UK.

[@piyahansda1263]

Wow. RIP UK justice system.

[@thomasthetankengine4067]

The system is a joke , not a death penalty or life in prison playing the mental health card, I have mental health and I don’t have voices in my head to kill anyone so that’s a load of bollocks.

[@truckerfromreno]

Didn't two of the families stand on steps in Nottingham saying 'love not hate, 'don't look back in anger?' They seem to have changed their position.

[@davehudson1744]

And his defence was legally aided, his barristers raping the system for millions....ffs

[@ExplorerOfTheGalaxy]

This judge must stop working IMMEDIATELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He made an injustice.

[@andygman639]

Diversity

[@huggsboson5735]

Hes is likely to spend the rest of his days in a psych hospital (assuming that happens) I dont understand what the outrage towards the sentence is? other than the death penalty what else would people like to happen to him?

[@j.t.jaeger1595]

Dreadful failures from various organisations, especially the CPS for coming to a ridiculous plea bargain. Time for the chief constable of Nottinghamshire to resign.

[@rogermason6808]

Bring back Judge Jeffreys

[@bexsta7766]

A lot of bad people in Ashworth

[@gorillaattack]

How can sick dangerous people like this never be noticed earlier? There must be people who were aware he is dangerous.

[@duncanbedford4765]

What a shame the death penalty has gone...😢

[@hpb5495]

The two-legged beast's default position.

[@paulfalco4110]

I'm very sad for those victims especially those 2 young peoples, I'm very angry against the judge or the law that make possible that this monster will go to hospital ! He must be in Jail with minimum access to anything can be enjoyable, no book, no tv, no mates.. solo in room small as possible with 20 cm window ...I'm very angry to governments that still welcome immigrants from TOO differents cultures , we know since 20 years that multicultiralism does not work, stop then !!! LOOK POLAND ! No immigrants no (crazy) crimes ...We are not racist we are victimes that had enough