Victims' families leave room as inquiry told of fateful hours leading up to killings

CALOCANE'S MOVEMENTS RETRACED USING CITY'S CCTV CAMERAS

- By RUCSANDRA MOLDOVEANU [e-mail]

in Ilkeston Road on the morning of the attacks

THE families of the three people killed by paranoid. schizophrenic Valdo Calocane left the hearing room as the Nottingham Inquiry was told of the criminal’s movements on the day of the attacks.

Calocane killed Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates before attempting to murder Wayne Birkett, Marcin Gawronski and Sharon Miller on June 13, 2023.

An inquiry is now being chaired by Her Honour Deborah Taylor in Central London to examine the actions of agencies such as Nottinghamshire Police, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Nottingham, where Calocane had been a student, and how they contributed to the attacks.

CCTV screengrabs shown to the inquiry yesterday picture Calocane at London’s St Pancras Station at 8.15pm on June 12, just under eight hours before he stabbed Barnaby and Grace, both 19, on Ilkeston Road.

He was wearing black trainers and trousers and a grey T-shirt when he boarded an EMR train to Nottingham. He is then seen on CCTV arriving at Nottingham Station at 11.25pm, then putting on a long sleeved top to be dressed in all black clothing.

At 11.52pm, the inquiry was told Calocane sent his brother Elias, who was in the hearing room, a computer file containing approximately 1,400 documents, many of which related to issues such as surveillance and mind control, Julian Blake KC, counsel to the inquiry said.

Grace’s parents, Sanjoy Kumar and Sinead O’Malley-Kumar, left the room before any of the evidence was heard.

Barnaby’s parents, Emma Webber and David Webber, left the hearing while the timeline of Calocane’s attacks on the two teens was heard, but they later returned. Two of Ian's sons, Lee and James, also left at one point but also returned.