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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Neha Gohil Midlands correspondent

Mental health system is broken, says mother of Nottingham triple killer

Celeste Calocane gives evidence at Mary Ward House in London
Celeste Calocane: ‘I just had to navigate the system myself and try to make sense of what was going on.’ Photograph: Nottingham inquiry/PA

The mother of the man who killed three people in an attack in Nottingham in 2023 has told an inquiry that the mental health system is broken and that until there is a crisis “no one listens to you”.

Valdo Calocane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to a suspended hospital order in January 2024 after killing the students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, a 65-year-old caretaker, on 13 June 2023 and attempting to kill three others.

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