An attack similar to the triple killings by Valdo Calocane could happen again tomorrow as there is a ‘lack of consequences’ for police and mental health service failures, experts warned today.
Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020, fatally stabbed Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates, and tried to kill three others, in Nottingham on June 13, 2023, after a series of ‘red flags’ about his behaviour were missed.
Now some psychiatrists have called for a reform of a system in which mental health patients’ ‘rights and freedoms predominate’, despite the risk they pose.
Calocane was sectioned four times
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