Valdo Calocane brother tells inquiry he felt powerless over killer’s mental ill health

Elias Calocane says he thought violent messages sent by brother related to suicidal thoughts not harming others The younger brother of Valdo Calocane, who killed three people in an attack in Nottingham, said he felt “powerless” over his sibling’s mental ill health and believed violent messages his brother had sent concerned suicidal thoughts. Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020, stabbed to death Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65, on 13 June 2023, and seriously injured three others. Calocane’s younger brother, Elias, gave evidence to the Nottingham inquiry for the first time on Wednesday, which is looking at the events leading up to the attacks. During his evidence, Elias was asked about several messages he received from Calocane in 2020, before his first hospital admission, which contained violence and paranoia about technology. In one message, Calocane said he was “thinking about red rum”, which is murder spelt backwards. In another, Calocane told his brother he wanted to “hurt permanently”. Elias repeatedly told the inquiry that from 2020 until the attacks in Nottingham in 2023, he ha