A new review has uncovered serious failings in the mental health care provided to Valdo Calocane, who went on to brutally murder three people in Nottingham. The report also reveals that Nottinghamshire Police did not arrest Calocane after he assaulted one of his flatmates in 2022.
A new review has revealed that Nottinghamshire Police did not arrest triple killer Valdo Calocane after he assaulted one of his university flatmates. A 300-page report commissioned by NHS England, published on Wednesday, February 5, uncovered a series of serious failings in the mental health care provided to Calocane.
Calocane brutally murdered 19-year-old University of Nottingham (UoN) students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and 65-year-old school caretaker Ian Coates in the early hours of June 13, 2023, on the streets of Nottingham. The Independent Mental Health Homicide Review was ordered by NHS England in January 2024, shortly after Calocane was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. The report focuses on the actions of Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust and the wider NHS from Calocane’s first contact with mental health services in May 2020 up to the three killings. It was commissioned alongside a special review into the trust by the Care Quality Commission, which released its troubling findings in three stages last year. A summary of the independent mental health homicide report was due to be made publicly available this week, however, the full review was released in an 11th hour U-turn. The report revealed that Calocane, who graduated aged 30 with a degree in mechanical engineering from UoN in June 2022, had assaulted one of his flatmates while he was a student, but Nottinghamshire Police did not arrest him. The review states that Calocane failed to attend a fifth outpatient appointment on January 17, 2022. This was on the same day he assaulted one of his flatmates, trapping him and another in a flat at Madison Court in Lenton. This resulted in the police being called. The report reads: 'The reporting student stated that the Police had told him that although VC had intent to hurt him, because he (the reporting student) had stopped VC by grabbing and holding him and he (the reporting student) had not sustained any injuries, they could not arrest VC. 'The University expressed concerns about VC’s presentation and him remaining in the accommodation.' The review also revealed that the police has been unable to engage with the independent investigation conducted by NHS England due to an ongoing investigation from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). The IOPC investigation is reviewing the force's contact with Calocane prior to the three killings in June 2023. The report reads: 'Due to the police not being able to engage with this independent investigation, it has not been possible to explore the line of enquiry around the threshold set and the definition applied to judgements on the appropriateness of MAPPA, therefore no finding can be suggested.' This refers to the formal arrangements that should be in place for information gathering and sharing between the police and the mental health trust, in this case Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT). The report states that one of the mechanisms is via the Multi Agency Public Protection Agency (MAPPA) meeting. Calocane was not known to MAPPA, however, the report shows, implying that he did not meet the criteria for the agency to get involved. MAPPA is the statutory process through which the police, probation and prison services work together with other agencies to manage the risks posed by violent and sexual offenders in order to protect the public. Deputy Chief Constable Steve Cooper, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “Nottinghamshire Police remains under investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in relation to matters directly associated with this review, and we are fully committed to supporting this.
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