Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleValdo Calocane, who killed three people in Nottingham in June 2023, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and is now detained under an indefinite hospital order. A public inquiry is examining systemic failings in Calocane's mental health care, with his mother and brother urging politicians to address the “decimation” of funding for services. Two independent reports found that Calocane's care by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was “not always sufficient”, prompting health officials to admit it was “clear the system got it wrong”.Calocane was repeatedly admitted and discharged from mental health hospitals between 2020 and 2022, eventually being discharged to his GP without a risk assessment despite concerns about violent behaviour. While Calocane's family attributes the tragedy to systemic failures and underfunding, victims' families, such as Grace O'Malley-Kumar's father, believe individual psychiatrists failed in their duties, not solely due to underfunding. In fullMother of Nottingham triple killer: ‘We tried to get help for my son. Then he killed three people’Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Public inquiry examines failings that led to 2023 Nottingham attacks
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleValdo Calocane, who killed three people in Nottingham in June 2023, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and is now detained under an indefinite hospital order. A public inquiry is examining systemic failings in Calocane's mental health care, with his mother and brother urging politicians to address the “decimation” of funding for services. Two independent reports found that Calocane's care by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was “not always sufficient”, prompting health officials to admit it was “clear the system got it wrong”.Calocane was repeatedly admitted and discharged from mental health hospitals between 2020 and 2022, eventually being discharged to his GP without a risk assessment despite concerns about violent behaviour. While Calocane's family attributes the tragedy to systemic failures and underfunding, victims' families, such as Grace O'Malley-Kumar's father, believe individual psychiatrists failed in their duties, not solely due to underfunding. In fullMother of Nottingham triple killer: ‘We tried to get help for my son. Then he killed three people’Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
