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Nottinghamshire Police apologise for failures but say arrest warrant would not have prevented the killings

Nottinghamshire Police admitted multiple failures including a 10-month delay to arrest Valdo Calocane but said arrest would not have stopped his June 2023 attacks.

  • Nottinghamshire Police apologised for failing to execute an arrest warrant for the killer Calocane, describing it as a “serious, systemic operational failure”.
  • The prosecution accepted Calocane's plea of diminished responsibility due to his mental health, as agreed by four psychiatrists.
  • NHS England acknowledged they "failed you with devastating consequences" in relation to the killings.
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In 2020, the first assault of Valdo Calocane, who in 2023 massacred three people by knife strokes. He should have ended up in a psychiatric hospital, but the doctors feared to be silenced with racism.The eyes seem to close as the police take the photo of the signage. Empty pain. Lost. Yet they are the eyes of a killer, Valdo Calocane, who on June 13, 2023 killed two 19-year-old boys, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and a 65-year-old jan…

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Spiked broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
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