Valdo Calocane, Immigrant murderer of Nottingham student Grace ‘O Malley has Murder charges downgraded to Manslaughter, on mental health grounds.
CCTV footage played in court showed the killer walking calmly around the city in the hours before the attack, dressed in black and grey and carrying a rucksack and a holdall later found to contain multiple weapons.
After the first killings, Calocane called his brother and told him to take the family out of the country. When asked: “Are you going to do something stupid?”, Calocane replied: “It’s already done.”
He then attempted to break into Seely Hirst House, a hostel for vulnerable homeless adult men, admitting later he had intended to kill someone there, but was unable to gain entry.
Calocane then attacked 65-year-old school caretaker Ian Coates, who was driving past, stabbing him repeatedly as he sat in the driver’s seat and leaving him for dead.
In the middle of a brutal rampage in which he fatally stabbed two college students and a 65-year-old man, Valdo Calocane phoned his brother to tell him it was the last time they would speak and he should leave Britain with their family, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
When his brother asked if he was planning something stupid, Calocane replied: “It is already done.”
Calocane had just slain university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, while they walked home after a night out celebrating the end of exams at the University of Nottingham, Prosecutor Karim Khalil said. He would go on to stab school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, steal his van and run down three other people in the streets of Nottingham in June.
The defendant then fought with her for 30 seconds, stabbing her repeatedly, before returning to inflict further violence on Webber, who was lying in the road.
Witnesses described hearing “an awful, blood-curdling scream” and seeing O’Malley-Kumar crawl towards the houses on the opposite side of the road shouting for help. The CCTV footage of the attack, in which the killer emerged from a hiding place to fatally stab the pair, was not shown in court.
The killer appeared in the dock flanked by five people, including two NHS workers, wearing a black suit jacket with a light-coloured shirt and glasses. He did not react as details of the attacks were read out.
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