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The British government's top lawyer has referred to the U.K.'s Court of Appeal the sentence handed to a 32-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia who fatally stabbed two college students and a man in the central English city of Nottingham last summer, arguing that it was “unduly lenient.” Attorney General Victoria Prentis said Tuesday she had asked the court to reconsider last month's sentencing of Valdo Calocane to an indefinite hospital order after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility as a result of his mental illness. ...

The Nottingham killer visited a member of a drug dealing gang before he took the lives of three people in a knife rampage, The Telegraph can reveal, as the victim’s families raised concerns about the lack of toxicology tests.

Valdo Calocane may qualify for welfare payments under section 37 of the Mental Health Act.

John Rees tried to stop fellow shoppers in a Co-op store being attacked by a woman with a knife.

Nazir Afzal's comments come amid a review into how prosecutors handled the Nottingham attacks case.