MoJ silence over court staff sackings dismays attack victims' families

A WEEK ON, GRIEVING LOVED ONES HAVE RECEIVED NO EXPLANATION

- JOSHUA HARTLEY

THE grieving Nottingham attacks families have been left in the dark again after "morbid" snoopers who reportedly watched videos of the city killings were sacked.

Two workers at Nottingham Crown Court were dismissed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) after allegedly viewing videos of the killings of Grace O'Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates on June 13, 2023.

Since the dismissals came to light, the MoJ has not yet explained what it meant by referring to the sacked employees as "further individuals" - suggesting more staff had been disciplined or would have been dismissed.

The ministry said it had to speak to the victims' families before disclosing whether any other workers had been involved, but the relatives of those stabbed by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane said they had not been contacted by officials since the story broke last Friday.

James Coates, whose father Ian was killed by Calocane before he used the school caretaker's van to try to kill three people waiting at a city centre bus stop, said: "Personally I'm disgusted by the morbid voyeurism of these court workers."