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The Attorney General has ordered an independent review of the decision by prosecutors to accept Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane’s guilty pleas to manslaughter.

The mother of a university student stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane has claimed there were “no obvious” signs of psychosis before his killing after prosecutors said medical evidence was “overwhelming”.

The review will examine the medical care of Valdo Calocane who killed three people in Nottingham.

David Parish pleaded guilty to manslaughter after the 86-year-old woman was found dead in her home.

Families of the victims say they are still seeking answers to why Valdo Calocane was free to kill.

Calls are growing for the Government to launch a public inquiry into whether the Nottingham killer could have been prevented from stabbing three people to death.

The statements of the parents of the two Nottingham students killed by a paranoid schizophrenic evince a pain that will never leave them. They raise serious questions about how the killer Valdo Calocane was allowed to roam the streets looking for innocent victims.

The Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane could become eligible for release after three years under the terms of the hospital order imposed by the judge, The Telegraph can reveal.

Is there a better poster boy for broken Britain than Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane? The Attorney General may ask for a review of the paranoid schizophrenic’s sentence after the families of his victims attacked the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), claiming he “got away with murder”. It came after he was handed an indefinite order to be detained in a high-security hospital after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility.

Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane’s sentence was not properly explained to the families of his victims because of court backlogs, a top KC has said.