'Torture' to return to where innocents died

HUNDREDS SHOW SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF VICTIMS ON SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF FATAL ATTACKS

- By JOSHUA HARTLEY

"IT’S traumatic being here, to be honest its torture, I don’t know if I'll be able to come back," grieving mum Emma Webber said as she looked tearfully towards a crowd of more than 200 well-wishers.

Her family was changed forever by the violent rampage of killer Valdo Calocane who fatally stabbed her 19-year-old son Barnaby Webber, friend and fellow University of Nottingham student Grace O'Malley-Kumar, also 19, and 65-year-old school caretaker Ian Coates in Nottingham on June 13, 2023.

The families, friends and local residents, came together on the two-year anniversary yesterday on Ilkeston Road and Magdala Road, where the three victims' lives were lost.

Mrs Webber, dressed in the yellow and green of the university sports teams her son and Grace had played for, thanked attendees for their support but admitted it was incredibly difficult to return to the city.

"It's been absolutely heartbreaking and there are no words to convey our grief and fury.

"It is very difficult being in the city where our beautiful boy was killed by a monster, it brings real trauma and it is torture."