Review into triple killer's 'unduly lenient' sentence

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- MARTIN FRICKER

TRIPLE killer Valdo Calocane's sentence has been referred to the Court of Appeal after the Attorney General found it to be too lenient.

The 32-year-old was given an indefinite hospital order for killing Nottingham University students Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65.

His plea of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility was accepted by the prosecution.

But chief law officer Victoria Prentis said his sentence was "unduly lenient" and is to ask the Court of Appeal to review it. Bereaved relatives of the victims welcomed the move.

They said in a joint statement: "The sentencing given to Valdo Calocane, who so viciously and calculatedly killed our loved ones, was wrong.

"We are optimistic that when this reaches the Royal Courts of Justice there will be an outcome that provides some of the appropriate justice we have been calling for." Ms Prentis told how she was inundated with requests to refer Calocane's hospital order under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. She said: