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Grace OMalley Kumar, 19, was killed by attacker Valdo Calocane while heroically trying to protect her university friend Barnaby Webber just after 4am on June 13 last year.

The graduate engineering student was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia during his knife-rampage in Nottingham last summer.

Valdo Calocane, 32, who has paranoid schizophrenia, believed the agency was controlling him, says defence lawyer

Angry family members of student Grace O’Malley Kumar, who was stabbed to death in Nottingham, have branded her killer a “delusional coward ”.

Grace OMalley Kumar, 19, was killed by Valdo Calocane in Nottingham while heroically trying to protect her university friend Barnaby Webber just after 4am on June 13 last year.

Psychiatrists have discussed Valdo Calocanes mental state at Nottingham Crown Court, with the 32-year-old having suffered from paranoid schizophrenia when he killed two students and a school caretaker in June 2023.

Valdo Calocane told doctors he was targeted by malign forces and even visited MI5 s London headquarters to ask them to stop controlling him two years before his rampage in Nottingham.

Nottinghamshire Police has admitted it could have done more to arrest a knifeman who had been on the run for nine months before going on to kill three people.

Valdo Calocane, 32, is due to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday morning.

Valdo Calocane, 32, killed university students Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both just 19, and a school caretaker, Ian Coates, 64, during a frenzied attack on June 13 last year