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The judgement from Mr Justice Turner at Nottingham Crown Court was unstinting: he told Valdo Calocane, who killed three people in a frenzied attack last year, that he will remain in a high-security hospital “probably for the rest of [his] life”.
For the families of the two university students and a school caretaker killed in Nottingham by a paranoid schizophrenic, their grief must be even harder to bear knowing that it was avoidable. The killer Valdo Calocane had not only been in and out of a mental hospital four times in three years, but a warrant had been issued for his arrest nine months’ earlier. The police had apparently failed to locate him, even though he was wanted for assaulting an officer who was trying to detain him under the
A 32-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia who fatally stabbed two college students and a man just months away from retirement in the city of Nottingham, in central England, was told Thursday that he would "most probably" spend the rest of his life in a high-security medical facility. The sentencing of Valdo Calocane followed three days of hearings in which family members of the victims, including those of three people he deliberately tried to run over in a van stolen from one of the victims soon after his killing spree, condemned him as "evil." Bereaved families slamm...
Good evening. The families of Valdo Calocane’s victims have spoken out after he was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. Elsewhere, a top scientist has claimed the BBC ‘misrepresented’ the risk posed by Covid.
The Attorney General is set to review the sentence of Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane after the families of his victims heavily criticised the Crown Prosecution Service and said he “got away with murder”.