Parents of Nottingham attack victim say medics must breach confidentiality if patient is risk to others

Valdo Calocane was protected at expense of public safety in years before June 2023 stabbings, families of victims say The parents of a victim of the Nottingham attacks have said medical staff have a duty to breach patient confidentiality if the person they are treating is a risk to others. The families of the victims of the June 2023 attacks spoke at a news conference in London on Monday after evidence concluded in a 14-week public inquiry into the attacks. They said local authorities had protected Valdo Calocane at the expense of public safety in the years before he stabbed Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates to death. The families said the tragedy would happen again without immediate action by the government. Webber and O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Coates, 65, were killed in the the early hours of 13 June 2023. Calocane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, was convicted of three counts of manslaughter and sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in January 2024. O’Malley-Kumar’s mother, Sinead O’Malley-Kumar, said “a lot of the fault lies” with the psychiatrists involved in Calocane’s care. She said she would “never forgive them for their lack of treatment and their