Knifeman who stabbed three to death in Nottingham handed hospital order

Judge Mr Justice Turner told the killer: “You committed a series of atrocities in this city which ended the lives of three people.

Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were all stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane in the early hours of June 13. Picture: Nottinghamshire Police/PA

A knifeman with paranoid schizophrenia who killed three people and attacked three others in a spate of “atrocities” in Nottingham has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.

Judge Mr Justice Turner said Valdo Calocane, 32, would “very probably” be detained in a high-security hospital for the rest of his life after “deliberately and mercilessly” stabbing students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19 and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, in the early hours of June 13 last year.