from a night out in nottingham have been named as barnaby webber and grace kumar. they were both 19. a man in his 50s was also stabbed to death and his van was then driven into another group of people, leaving one critically injured. a 31 year old man is being held on suspicion of murder. our reporterjo black is in nottingham. two teenagers killed with no real understanding as to why. barnaby webber and grace kumar were both students at nottingham university. they died in the attack along with a third man in his 50s. the city mourns together, unable to comprehend what s happened. i ve lived here all my life and i ve got a connection with the city and ijust. i kind of want to be, i don t know, here with other people my age. vigils have been held overnight for those killed. right now, our hearts, thoughts, prayers go out to those especially who have lost loved ones. in a statement, nottingham university said it was shocked and devastated and that its thoughts were with those af
number of contributions including from counsellor david mallon, the leader of the council. we will then have ross middleton, head teacher at huntington academy followed by professor cheryl west, vice chancellor of the nerve to eight university of nottingham. together with the reverend, the chaplain of the university. we will then hear from alex noris mp and caroline henry, the police and crime commissioner. we will then move back to counsellor david millan and move into a minutes silence. after that we will hear from some of our faith leaders across our great city of nottingham put up together with contributions from members of the family and our portfolio holderfor communities before we close the event. without further ado i m going to introduce counsellor mccullough, lord mayor of nottingham. thank you. as lord mayor i would like to welcome as lord mayor i would like to welcome you all here today and thank you for welcome you all here today and thank you for coming. this
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three people. we know two of the three people. we know two of the three people who died were university students from nottingham university and we know that one of the people injured in the attack and the people injured in the attack and the incident with the van is critically in hospital and two others suffered less serious injuries. we don t have details about the other person who died at the moment. hopefully the press conference will reveal some more details. for police they say a 31 year old man is in custody, arrest and under suspicion of murder and no one else is involved and you can see from nottingham that some of the cordons have been listed although police have kept a pretty tight grip on things in the city centre as they do their investigations, gather evidence and so on. i think the key for police and what it is puzzling everyone is to find out what was behind this attack. what were the motives, what was the reason for it. it appears on the face of it, a sort of
he asked the congregation on father s day to think of the two families who had both lost a child and to hold them in their hearts. he also asked the congregation to think of the three sons of ian coates, who had lost a beloved father. and the bishop of nottingham, paul williams described nottingham as a tear filled city since tuesday. nowjust a stone s throw from here is the old market square in nottingham, where a huge vigil was held on thursday. thousands of people came to that and on the council house steps there are hundreds of floral tributes. people are still coming today to leave tributes and to read messages of support and sympathy. meanwhile, a 31 year old man has appeared before magistrates in nottingham yesterday. he is charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder after a van was used to drive through pedestrians.