Nottingham Inquiry hears 999 call reporting 'awful' stabbings

A witness cried and told a 999 operator "my God that's awful" as he reported students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar had been stabbed in Nottingham, a public inquiry into the attacks has heard. The 19-year-olds were killed by Valdo Calocane before he fatally stabbed 65-year-old Ian Coates and tried to kill three others on 13 June 2023. On Thursday, the inquiry was played recordings from two unnamed witnesses who called emergency services to report the attacks on Barnaby and Grace in Ilkeston Road. One of the first calls received by Nottinghamshire Police began: "There's been a stabbing on Ilkeston Road. There's somebody lying in the street. I think they're dead." The male caller said "oh, that was awful", repeating this a number of times as he became more emotional as the call went on. He told the operator he saw a black man with a black bag, all dressed in black, go up Ilkeston Road towards the town centre. The man described how there was an injured man who appeared to be in his 20s lying in the middle in the road. He said: "Blood all over their chest", and said again: "My God, that's awful." The caller, who explained he was looking out of his bedroom window from 500m awa