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Police failed to warn Nottingham families of mentally ill stalker
Families say police failed to warn them about a man with a violent history, and the force has referred the complaint to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
- Nottinghamshire Police referred a complaint to the IOPC on August 24 regarding information withheld from families of victims killed by Valdo Calocane, who allege the force failed to disclose that a man with a fixation on them had visited their homes.
- Emma Webber, mother of Barnaby Webber, said she was "furious" that police failed to disclose a mentally ill man with a fixation on the Nottingham case traveled to Somerset seeking out victims' families.
- Sanjoy Kumar, father of Grace, said police never mentioned "risk" when disclosing the man had visited his surgery in London, though the IOPC later informed him the man was on the Prevent register.
- The IOPC acknowledged "the families should have been updated that we'd spoken to this witness at the time" while investigating Calocane's interactions with the force and the complaint handling.
- Barnaby's parents were not told for 18 months that a stalker had sought them out, a failure now under scrutiny as The Nottingham Inquiry examines the lead-up to the 2023 attacks and subsequent police actions.
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