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

Mother of Nottingham attacks victim calls for ‘whole truth’ to emerge at inquiry

Emma Webber.
Emma Webber, the mother of Barnaby Webber who was killed in the Nottingham attacks in 2023, said institutions had ‘closed ranks to keep us quiet’ since the attacks. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

The mother of a student who was killed in the 2023 Nottingham attacks has said she will “fight to the bitter end” to get to the truth of how Valdo Calocane was free to attack, before the beginning of a public inquiry into the incident.

Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19-year-old students, and 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates were fatally stabbed by Calocane on 13 June 2023 in a frenzied attack. Early the next day, Calocane drove a van into pedestrians Wayne Birkett, Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski, leaving all three with severe and life-changing injuries.

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