Nottingham attacks: Judges reject appeal over triple killer’s sentence
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Valdo Calocane was sentenced to a hospital order in January after admitting manslaughter
The sentence of a man who stabbed three people to death in Nottingham was not unduly lenient, judges have ruled.
Valdo Calocane killed Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and 65-year-old Ian Coates on 13 June 2023.
He was given an indefinite hospital order after prosecutors accepted a plea of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
On Wednesday, Court of Appeal judges rejected an appeal against the sentence by the attorney general.
Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar died at the scene of the attacks
Speaking at the hearing, Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr concluded there was “no error” in the sentence given by Mr Justice Turner at Nottingham Crown Court in January.
She said Calocane was in the “grips of a severe psychotic episode” at the time.
The 32-year-old had been diagnosed with treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia before the attacks.
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