Judge urged not to pass whole life order on Nottingham triple-killer

Mr Calocane is expected to be sentenced on Thursday at the city’s Crown Court for the manslaughter of students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65

The life of Valdo Calocane and the lives of his victims were all destroyed by the 32-year-old’s mental illness, which ‘stalked him down’ more than three years before he stabbed three people, a court has heard (Nottinghamshire Police/PA)

The life of Valdo Calocane and the lives of his victims were all destroyed by the 32-year-old’s mental illness, which “stalked him down” more than three years before he stabbed three people, a court has heard.

Calocane, formerly of Forest Fields, Nottingham, is expected to be sentenced on Thursday at the city’s Crown Court for the manslaughter of students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65.