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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sophie Robinson

NHS trust boss tells inquiry of ‘missed opportunity’ to stop Nottingham killings

Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were fatally stabbed by Valdo Calocane in 2023 - (Nottinghamshire Police/PA)

A former mental health patient at the NHS trust which treated paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane fatally attacked someone less than a year before the Nottingham killings, an inquiry has heard.

Paul Devlin, who was chairman of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust until December last year, said there was a “missed opportunity” to take steps that could have prevented Calocane’s violent rampage.

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