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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jamie Grierson

Valdo Calocane: what are high-security hospitals and could his sentence be changed?

Emma Webber, mother of Barnaby Webber, who was one of Calocane’s victims, makes a statement alongside relatives of the victims, outside Nottingham crown court.
Emma Webber, mother of Barnaby Webber, one of Calocane’s victims, making a statement alongside other relatives of the victims, outside Nottingham crown court yesterday. Photograph: Jacob King/PA

On Thursday, Valdo Calocane, an engineering graduate diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to a hospital order with restrictions for killing three people and attempting to kill three others in a violent spree across Nottingham.

The decision enraged the families of his victims, who believe he should have been prosecuted for murder, with one saying they were “railroaded” into accepting Calocane’s plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

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