Watchdog calls for government to change murder laws after Nottingham attacks

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Watchdog calls for government to change murder laws after Nottingham attacks
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Valdo Calocane was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order for killing students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and caretaker Ian Coates.

Murder laws should be overhauled in the wake of the Nottingham attacks which left three people dead, the CPS Inspectorate has urged.

in January 2024 after the Crown Prosecution Service decided to accept his guilty pleas to manslaughter. The review concluded CPS also made the correct decision to accept Calocane’s pleas of guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility and attempted murder for the three surviving victims.

If homicide is not to be categorised into three tiers and diminished responsibility is not to be a partial defence to murder, whether the mandatory life sentence should remain for all cases of murder.

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