The suspect in the Nottingham killings has been named, as police continue to question the former student
Valdo Amissão Mendes Calocane, thought to be a 31-year-old West African man living legally in the UK, is being questioned in custody by officers.
Police said on Thursday that he had been a student at Nottingham University, where two of the victims, Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar, were studying. Officers said they did not think this was related to the killings.Three people were killed and three more injured in a stabbing and van attack throughout the city in the early hours of Tuesday morning.students, and Ian Coates, a 66-year-old caretaker, died in the attacks. One man is still in a critical condition in hospital after the car attack.
A spokesperson for Nottinghamshire Police said on Thursday: "A team of dedicated detectives is continuing to question the suspect and building up a strong picture of what happened that morning. "This has included CCTV gathering, forensics, eye-witness accounts and searching a number of properties in the city.
"They added that they believed the suspect to have been a former University of Nottingham student, but don't think his this was connected to the attack."
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