Police say Nottingham attacks were 'not preventable'
Nottinghamshire Police have argued at a public inquiry that the 2023 Nottingham attacks were not preventable, stating that police cannot manage individuals with dangerous mental health conditions. The inquiry is examining systemic failures in the care and monitoring of the perpetrator, Valdo Calocane.
Why it matters
The case highlights critical gaps in the intersection of mental health services, police intervention, and public safety protocols.
Image source, Supplied Image caption, Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane on 13 June 2023
A police force has said the Nottingham attacks were not "reasonably foreseeable or preventable", a public inquiry has heard.
Valdo Calocane - who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020 - stabbed to death Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates, and tried to kill three others, in a spate of attacks on 13 June 2023.
Nottinghamshire Police dealt with Calocane on 10 or 11 occasions between 2020 and 2022, but John Beggs KC - representing the force - said police "cannot manage dangerous paranoid schizophrenics".
At the Nottingham Inquiry , external - which has been examining the attacks - Beggs challenged the idea that any police mistakes before the killings were missed opportunities.
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