Nottingham attack victims tested for drugs but killer was not, inquiry told

Father of Grace O’Malley-Kumar calls decision to take sample from his daughter after her death ‘disgusting’ The father of a university student killed while trying to protect her friend from Valdo Calocane in Nottingham told an inquiry it is “disgusting” the stabbing victims were tested for drugs and alcohol but their killer was not. Sanjoy Kumar, Grace O’Malley-Kumar’s father, said he could not understand why the diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic had not been tested for drugs while in custody after the attacks. O’Malley-Kumar, 19, and her friend Barnaby Webber were both stabbed to death in the early hours of 13 June 2023 in Ilkeston Road after going on a night out. Calocane then killed caretaker Ian Coates, 65, before running over three pedestrians with a stolen van. Dr Kumar said he and his wife, Dr Sinead O’Malley, had to sign human tissue forms he had never encountered during his work as a GP and a forensic medical examiner with the Metropolitan police, or their daughter’s body would not be released to them. He told the judge-led Nottingham inquiry on Wednesday: “You had to sign them, but what was not highlighted was that this is a point in time where you are also signing to say