City leaders 'do not care for us', claim families of victims

THE Nottingham attacks families have asked residents to support them on the second anniversary of the killings - as they say they have been left on their own by the city’s institutions.

- By JOSHUA HARTLEY

The families of those killed by Valdo Calocane in 2023 have accused Nottingham City Council and the University of Nottingham of failing to help commemorate the second anniversary of the fatal stabbings.

The relatives of 19-year-old UoN students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber and school caretaker Ian Coates will travel to where paranoid schizophrenic killer knifed them on the morning of June 13 - two years since the shocking attacks.

The two students were violently attacked on Ilkeston Road in the early hours as they made their way back to their accommodation block and died shortly after, despite brave Grace's attempts to save her friend.

Calocane then later launched a deadly attack on Mr Coates on Magdala Road in Mapperley Park, and seriously injured Wayne Birkett, Sharon Miller, and Marcin Gawronski in Nottingham city centre with the van he had stolen from him. His family, as well as the families of the medical and history students, will also go to Mapperley Park.