The concern that Valdo Calocane could 'end up killing someone' appears in a summary of medical records shared with BBC Panorama.
A doctor warned three years before the Nottingham attacks that Valdo Calocane's mental illness was so severe he could "end up killing someone", the BBC can reveal.
Calocane was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020 and was sectioned four times in less than two years. In 2022, the community mental health team discharged Calocane to his GP because he was not responding to them - on the same day an arrest warrant for him was issued over the assault of a police officer
The family said Valdo Calocane had previously shown no signs of mental illness as a teenager or young man. His family said this was the first of the missed opportunities to prevent someone being hurt, because he was not admitted to hospital until after he had carried out another break-in. According to the medical records, at a July 2020 meeting with health and care professionals while Calocane was ill in hospital, a psychiatrist observed that "there seems to be no insight or remorse and the danger is that this will happen again and perhaps Valdo will end up killing someone".
He told them he could still hear the voices, that they “talk to each other about him”, and suggest he should “prove his power.” After five days in seclusion and three weeks in psychiatric intensive care, Calocane was transferred under section 3 of the Mental Health Act to an NHS-funded bed in the privately run Priory Arnold Hospital just outside Nottingham.
She said she thought he should be given long lasting injectable medication which would be beneficial in the long term, but that did not happen. Over the next nine months, Elias and Celeste said Calocane continued to distance himself from his family. Elias told Panorama he was convinced that meant his brother was going to hurt himself, "that this would end in suicide".Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were stabbed to death by Calocane
Calocane was originally charged with murder. The Crown Prosecution Service changed the charge to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and he pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in January and told he would “very probably” be detained for the rest of his life.
“We have never disputed that he is mentally unwell; however, he knew what he was doing, he knew that it was wrong; but he did it anyway. There should be an element of punishment for such a heinous act; alongside appropriate treatment.”
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