Families must have answers

Doctors accused of having 'blood on hands' | Expert had warned of Calocane's 'zero remorse' | Calls for inquiry into mental health blunders

- MARTIN FRICKER

THE families of the Nottingham rampage victims say mental health workers must bear responsibility for their failures ahead of Valdo Calocane's killing spree.

A report by the Care Quality Commission published yesterday highlights a series of blunders by assessment teams that left Calocane free to roam the streets.

Grieving relatives said clinicians involved in treating him before the killings "have blood on their hands".

Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death by Calocane in June last year.

Paranoid schizophrenic Calocane had been repeatedly sectioned but discharged by mental health workers.

A doctor warned three years before the knife attacks that Calocane's mental illness was so severe he "could end up killing someone".

But the patient was released back into the community a fortnight later.

The psychiatrist's report came in 2020 during Calocane's time in hospital under the Mental Health Act after arrests for breaking into flats.

It added: "There seems to be no insight or remorse. The danger is this will happen again and perhaps Valdo will end up killing someone."