A mentally ill man sent text messages to his brother expressing thoughts of murder three years before killing three people in Nottingham, an inquiry has heard. Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, stabbed to death Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates on 13 June 2023 and tried to kill three others. The Nottingham Inquiry heard in 2020, before his first admission to a psychiatric ward, Calocane had sent messages to his brother about thoughts of violence and "red rum" - murder spelled backwards. On Wednesday, a former psychiatric ward doctor told the public inquiry she never thought it was "likely" Calocane would end up killing, despite known risks. The judge-led inquiry was shown a series of messages between Calocane and his brother Elias, from 2020 - before Calocane's first admission under the Mental Health Act to Highbury Hospital - run by the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The trust was responsible for Calocane's care for two years before he was discharged in September 2022, months before he carried out the stabbings. In text messages sent in early 2020, Calocane told Elias he had been unable to sleep and had "the darkest
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A mentally ill man sent text messages to his brother expressing thoughts of murder three years before killing three people in Nottingham, an inquiry has heard. Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, stabbed to death…
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A mentally ill man sent text messages to his brother expressing thoughts of murder three years before killing three people in Nottingham, an inquiry has heard. Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid…
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A mentally ill man sent text messages to his brother expressing thoughts of murder three years before killing three people in Nottingham, an inquiry has heard. Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, stabbed to death…
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