The student pair were stabbed to death last year, along with Ian Coates, 65, by killer Valdo Calocane
The mother of Barnaby Webber has called Grace O’Malley-Kumar "our hero", after she was killed trying unsuccessfully to save him. University of Nottingham students, Barnaby, 19, and his friend Grace, also 19, were killed in the Nottingham attacks last year as they walked home after a night out.
In January, the family had to watch as prosecutors accepted "monster" Valdo Calocane’s guilty plea of manslaughter by diminished responsibility. Judge Mr Justice Turner said the killer, who has paranoid schizophrenia, would "very probably" be detained in a high security hospital for the rest of his life.
Mrs Webber called for lawmakers to look again at introducing second degree murder, something recommended by the Law Commision in 2006 but never implemented. This week, she told the LDRS: “I wanted to address it and I had asked to do it privately and anonymously. I didn’t want to name and shame them and have them sat in a room in front of me. It’s not that, its about addressing it so they knew how I felt as a mum and how Charlie felt as a brother, and similar for the other two families.
She also wants to see a change in the law “so if you are carrying a knife you are carrying a lethal weapon". Calling for change in the policing of knife crime and fighting for justice for Barnaby was not something the family from Somerset ever expected to have to do. Mrs Webber said: “It is an unholy fight that we are all choosing to take on and we are doing it for our loved one.
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