The families of the Nottingham attack victims have said ‘accountability in British policing is dead’ after a senior officer who admitted multiple failures was quietly promoted.
Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane in June 2023.
Rob Griffin, who had ‘overall strategic command’ on the day of the attacks, has been promoted to deputy chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police.
Mr Griffin, who was assistant chief constable at the time of the Nottingham attacks, admitted that not detaining Calocane – whom there was an arrest warrant issued for in September 2022 – was a
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