Victim's body remained at crime scene for 15 hours, inquiry is told

SON DESCRIBES REVELATION AS 'GUT-WRENCHING'

- By OLIVER PRIDMORE

Darren Coates, James Coates and Lee Coates paying tribute to their father Ian, inset left, at Magdala Road, Mapperley Park, on the second anniversary of the Nottingham attacks last year

NOTTINGHAM attacks victim Ian Coates was left lying in the road for 15 hours after being killed in a revelation that one of his sons has described as “gut-wrenching”.

A senior Nottinghamshire Police boss admitted the news would be “traumatic” for the family of Mr Coates, especially given the further revelation that the 65-year-old’s body was not covered by a tent for two hours.

Mr Coates was the third person killed by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane in the early hours of June 13, 2023.

Calocane, who the families of his victims only refer to as ‘VC; first stabbed 19-year-old University of Nottingham students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar.

The vicious killings are the subject of the ongoing Nottingham Inquiry, examining the failings in both the response to the attacks and the buildup to them.