Nottingham Attacks: Victims’ families call for the killer’s doctors to be named | Nottingham

The families of Nottingham striker victims have called for the individual doctors responsible for Valdo Calocane’s treatment to be named and held responsible.

At a press conference Wednesday, after the publication of a report that detailed Calocan’s mental health care before his murder spy in June 2023, the families told Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates that they would have accountability for “Bad Management and bad decision making ”.

Sanjoy Kumar, Grace’s father and a practitioner said the report “could not name people responsible for the lack of treating Calocan appropriately”.

“We will ask the Secretary of State for health to order the confidence to hold individual doctors responsible as they knew that Calocan was an evil, violent man, a known risk to the public who did not take his medication,” he said. “He was sectioned four times. The psychiatrist failed to change his treatment four times. They could not consider public security in Nottingham.

“A system is made by individuals. If individuals are not kept to account, systems do not change in our country. “

Grace’s mother, Sinead O’Malley, a consultant anesthetist, said, “If any of these individuals thought Valdo Calocane would go out and share student accommodation with their child, I suspect their choices may have been changed. Responsibility at individual level is important. “

Calocane, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order after killing three people and trying to kill three others in a series of attacks in Nottingham on June 13, 2023.

The families said they should meet the government ministers next week to discuss a public examination of the attacks and Calocan’s treatment previously promised by Keir Starmer before the general election last year.

They said lectures would include a decision on the format and extent of the study as well as the identity of the chairman.

Emma Webber, Barnaby’s mother, said she wanted to make sure the investigation was compulsory and “has teeth”. “All agencies, organizations, institutions and vital must individuals back then and will be forced to participate, present evidence and tell the truth,” she said.

“It’s not a witch-hunt-we want accountability, we’re not revenge. But because people are not kept to account when they are not doing their jobs properly, no changes happen. Where is the incentive? “

She added: “The extent of all this is an unimaginable and an epic level. The public deserves to know the truth. It needs to be addressed and it must be handled properly. “

James Coates, Ian Coates’ son, who lives in Nottingham, said he had fought for access to mental health care from the same service responsible for discharging Calocan nine months before the attacks.

“There are still individuals out there who do not make risk assessments that do not finish the job properly and take shortcuts,” he said. “There is a system that failed, but they do not choose the individuals, those who have signed on the dotted line. I just can’t have any belief in trust. “

The independent report said Calocan was not forced to have long-term anti-psychotic medication when he was hospitalized because he did not like needles, even though he was known for not taking medication when released.

The review also found that between 2019 and 2023 there were 15 other events with “extremely serious” violence, including three dead, committed by patients from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, or people recently discharged.

The families said they felt that Calocan should face a harsher sentence, with lawyer Neil Hudgell, who acted on their behalf and said that the Calocan “was not treatment resistant, he resisted the treatment”.

The CEO of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Ifti Majid, said: “We apologize unreservedly for the opportunities we missed in the care of Valdo Calocane. We are making clear progress with a trust plan that already delivers important improvements in areas such as risk assessment and discharge processes. “