Mother of Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane asked for son to be admitted to hospital after outburst, inquiry told

Valdo Calocane, who killed three people in the city in June 2023, was not admitted after a serious violent episode three years earlier - (PA)

Valdo Calocane’s mother pleaded for her son to be admitted to hospital after a violent outburst three years before he killed three people in a mass stabbing in Nottingham, a public inquiry has heard.

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.