The mother of one of the Nottingham attack victims has expressed her fury at the failings of Nottinghamshire Police as the inquiry enters its fourth day.
Speaking to GB News, the mother of victim Barnaby Webber, Emma, declared the force is “abhorrent”, and every day of the inquiry so far has been “shocking, appalling, horrifying”.
This week, the inquiry has uncovered that the Nottingham triple killer was free to carry out his killing spree after mental health workers feared detaining him would be “racist”.
The families of the victims heard that it was decided to release him into the community after considering “research that shows over-representation of young black males in detention.”
Telling GB News of the latest from the inquiry, Mrs Webber told National Reporter Charlie Peters: “We’re only on day four, and every day has been shocking, appalling and horrifying, and it didn’t change again today.
“We heard from two early victims of his, who were obviously very brave to give their stories today and they survived with their lives didn’t they, but this was is in 2020.”
After hearing how one of the victims was almost paralysed after being forced to flee Calocane by jumping out of a 12ft window, Mrs Webber said the authorities “didn’t do their job properly” in protecting those two early victims.
She stated: “We saw with who was at the time PC Eustace, now an inspector, basically my interpretation is she admitted they didn’t do their job properly, they didn’t apply their policies properly.
Emma Webber has declared Nottinghamshire Police an ‘abhorrent force’ as the attacks inquiry enters its fourth day
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“They didn’t put his name in less than 24 hours later. Had they done it, they would have seen what he had been doing at the very same premises.
“This is somebody that was taken to hospital because he was seeing demons and hearing demons.
“The first witness this morning said that he appeared intoxicated or potentially on drugs, and the police have noted that in their records.”
Mrs Webber fumed: “What is going on here? Nottinghamshire Police, you’re an abhorrent force, and let’s wait to see what you say this afternoon.”
Recalling the information heard about Nottingham University’s role in “protecting” Calocane during his studies, Mrs Webber argued that they “neglected” the students of the university and the wider community.
She told GB News: “This is on the back of yesterday’s appalling behaviour from Nottingham University and their lack of ability to accept any form of responsibility or accountability that they could have done more.
Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were fatally stabbed by Valdo Calocane in 2023 | PA
“They were so busy caring for Calocane and what him wanting to do in his studies that they neglected not just the other students in Nottingham, I would say the wider community of Nottingham.
“This is a menace who was in that city for years, and it was always going to happen, wasn’t it?”
Criticising the head of student wellbeing Claire Thompson following her appearance in the inquiry, Mrs Webber recalled seeing “handwritten notes” describing Calocane as a “huge risk”.
She said: “Claire Thompson spent an awful lot of time defending her and the university’s actions with regards to protecting him and ensuring he had continuity of his studies and that he was well supported.
“What we didn’t hear, despite seeing handwritten notes, by the way, from Claire Thompson, where she wrote words down like ‘huge risk’, ‘serious attacks’, ‘serious assaults’, there was no risk assessment properly done.”
Mrs Webber told GB News that there has been ‘too much attention’ on Calocane and not the victims
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Mrs Webber made clear: “And I think there’s far too much attention being paid to Valdo Calocane here, as there was throughout the appalling investigation and criminal justice system.
“It’s all about the perpetrator – where are the victims in all of this and where’s public safety? They’ve got to be held to account.”
Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were fatally stabbed by Valdo Calocane in June 2023.
Calocane was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in January 2024 after admitting manslaughter by diminished responsibility and attempted murder, something which has been widely criticised by the victims’ families.