The families of the Nottingham stabbing attack victims have laid flowers at the spot where two university students were killed a year on from the incident.
Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both aged 19, were stabbed repeatedly by Valdo Calocane as they walked home after a night out to celebrate the end of their exams.
The 32-year-old also knifed to death school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, as he made his way to work at Huntingdon Academy in the early hours of 13 June 2023.
A memorial service is being held at the university today, where the vice-chancellor and chaplain will hold a two-minute silence.
In a statement ahead of the service, the Webber, Coates and O’Malley-Kumar families said the killings were a “series of catastrophic missed opportunities” which led to “entirely preventable deaths”, and “no stone will be left unturned” in their battle for justice.
Calocane pleaded guilty to three counts of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility in January.
The families tried to appeal the sentence, but the Court of Appeal ruled in May the sentence was “not unduly lenient” given the medical evidence showed he has paranoid schizophrenia.
Since the attacks, the three families have intensely criticised Nottinghamshire Police and the Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust after it was revealed Calocane had previously been detained in hospital four times, and a warrant for his arrest had been issued months before the killings.
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