The son of a school caretaker who was stabbed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane has told an inquiry he found out his father had died through an Instagram message from a family friend.
James Coates, whose father Ian Coates, 65, was stabbed just over an hour after 19-year-old undergraduates Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were killed in the early hours of June 13 2023, told the public inquiry into the Nottingham attacks in London that he thought the message was a hoax when he first read it.
