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Sophie Robinson

Killer released by mental health workers informed by race research, inquiry told

Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were killed (Nottinghamshire Police/PA) - (PA Media)

A schizophrenic man who killed three people caused a woman to jump out of her window after he was released by mental health professionals who considered the “over-representation” of young black men in detention, an inquiry has heard.

Valdo Calocane, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, killed University of Nottingham students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65, and attempted to kill three more people, in Nottingham in June 2023.

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