The mother of a student stabbed to death by a paranoid schizophrenic has spoken of her anger after it emerged his killer could be eligible for release as early as next year.
Emma Webber, whose son Barnaby was killed by Valdo Calocane in June 2023 said he would be freed ‘over my dead body’.
Calocane also killed fellow Nottingham University student Grace O’Malley-Kumar, also 19, as she and Barnaby walked home from a night out in the city in June 2023 before stabbing school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, and using his van to mow down three pedestrians.
The paranoid schizophrenic, who had been sectioned
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