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Evening Standard
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Sophie Robinson

Mother of killer Valdo Calocane slams ‘broken’ mental health system

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

The mother of triple killer Valdo Calocane has told an inquiry she felt she was doing the job of mental health services in a system that is “broken” and does not act until there is a crisis.

Celeste Calocane said the last time she saw her son – who has paranoid schizophrenia – months before he stabbed three people in a violent rampage he was “empty” and not the son she knew.

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