Every institution failed us, says father of stab victim

THE father of a student killed by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane has told an inquiry “there wasn’t a single institution involved in our case that didn’t fail”.

- BY ALLISTER HAGGER

Sanjoy Kumar, Grace O’Malley-Kumar’s father, told the Nottingham attacks inquiry that if his daughter’s killer had not brutally attacked her, he would have done it to someone else’s child.

Ms O’Malley-Kumar, 19, was stabbed to death with university friend Barnaby Webber on June 13, 2023, after a night out.

Calocane then killed caretaker Ian Coates, 65, before running over three pedestrians.

Dr Kumar said: “Not one agency has come forward and sat us down and told us the truth. It wasn’t one institution that failed us, it was all of them that were involved. We have never asked for anything extraordinary.