The families of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and Ian Coates, who were tragically killed in the 2023 Nottingham attacks, have formally complained to the BBC over a Panorama episode that they say has amplified their trauma. They criticize the documentary for inaccuracies, undue sympathy towards the knifeman's family, and their exclusion from the pre-broadcast process.
The families of the Nottingham attacks victims have made a formal complaint to the BBC over a Panorama episode that has made their trauma "a million times worse".
Barnaby’s mum Emma said: “We believe what the BBC produced is a very imbalanced documentary – it’s shameful, cold, ill-judged, arrogant and thoughtless.” Their loved ones were killed when Valdo Calocane, 32, went on the rampage through the streets of Nottingham in June last year. Panorama’s 'The Nottingham Attacks: A Search For Answers' aired last month and boasted it would consider “big questions” on the case. But Emma said: “We were not considered or consulted at any point to advise that this was being made.”
“There were a wide number of inaccuracies and clearly curated editing to make it an attack on the NHS failures and a sympathetic piece towards the family,” Emma said. “We utterly dispute that the family did not know of his diagnosis until after the attacks. We have seen evidence that they knew years ago.”
If unhappy with the response, the families’ next step will be to go to TV regulator Ofcom. The families’ lawyer Neil Hudgell said: “They were told as a ‘fait accompli’ when the piece was airing, they had no opportunity to be involved. Had they been consulted they could have pointed out some obvious factual errors.
Emma, from Taunton, Somerset, added: “We have nothing to hide, embellish or defend. We cannot bring our beautiful boy back but we can and will insist on getting answers and uncovering the truth, for however long it may take and whichever way we have to do it.”
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