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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

‘It’s a vortex of hell’: fathers of Nottingham students stabbed to death on trying to find answers

David Webber and Sanjoy Kumar
Sanjoy Kumar and David Webber spend much of their time piecing together a timeline of events leading up to their children’s killings. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

The Webber and O’Malley-Kumar families had never met before 13 June last year. When they did, it was in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.

Surrounded by shocked students and with TV cameras trained on their expressions, the parents of Barnaby and Grace sobbed as they hugged one another at the vigil held for their children. A day earlier, while walking home from a night out, the 19-year-old students had been stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane.

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