Nottingham - "A hooded attacker".
Outstanding questions?
(Screen shots where used credited and subject to fair use rules)
26.1.2024: Following extract from: https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/barnaby-webbers-mother-says-police-9057706?int_source=nba
The mother of a teenager from Taunton killed by a knifeman with paranoid schizophrenia said police have "blood on your hands" and “true justice has not been served”. Emma Webber, mother of student Barnaby Webber, 19, who was killed alongside his friend Grace O’Malley-Kumar, also 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, on June 13 last year, said Nottinghamshire Police have “blood on your hands” after Valdo Calocane’s pleas to manslaughter by diminished responsibility were accepted earlier this week.
Her comments came after judge Mr Justice Turner said the 32-year-old would “very probably” be detained in a high security hospital for the rest of his life as he sentenced him for the “atrocious” killings, as well as the attempted murder of three others. Speaking on the steps outside Nottingham Crown Court after the sentencing hearing concluded, Mrs Webber said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) only met with the bereaved families on November 24.
EXACTLTY SIX years on from the Grenfell House fire.
Well I never did! What a coincidence?
Question: A man matching the description of the suspect was captured on CCTV trying to break into a homeless shelter through an open window in Mapperley at 4.08am. This was only eight minutes after the stated time of the fatal knife attack of the two students at 4.00 o'clock in the morning. The two locations are aprox 1.9 miles apart, six minutes by vehicle and about half an hour on foot. The impossibility he was in both places at about the same time has not been explained. (26.1.2024: Very strangely the original reported time of 4.08 for the attempted break-in was later changed to 5.08 but the discrepancy was never explained!)
Question: If the man at '2' was the attacker at '1' , how did he get from 1 to 2. Presumably he walked for 30 minutes across town? It's feasible I suppose. And what happened to the hoodie? Only a t-shirt when arrested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNiARBoFeOA
Why the colour distortion of the blue policemen's uniforms and stab vests to fawn? (See other video images below)
Following image: https://news.sky.com/video/new-video-shows-nottingham-killer-valdo-calocanes-arrest-13056110
Seems to be wearing same or different clothes when arrested?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esKGPlpWB8o
Who in this image is that in black standing in the background????
https://wstpost.com/church-university-graduate-charged-with-triple-murder-in-nottingham/
Following from: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XuCQWDrZ6yk
Note head gear and clothing. Also different facial features. The back pack containing other weapons appears to be on the ground. This is claimed to be the same man only minutes between the attempted entry and before stealing the van, having stabbed to death the driver.
https://www.google.com/search?q=nottingham%20arrest&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CWDmpezpYmRDYY6pE0XWGhZ_1sgIOCgIIABAAOgQIARAAQAHAAgDYAgDgAgA&rlz=1C1ARAB_enGB463GB464&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4QuIIBahcKEwjQqPTSy8b_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQDw&biw=1263&bih=868#imgrc=trWVvAum-0zS4M
Strange change in colour definition of clothing. Suspect appears to be wearing conventional shoes rather than boots in the one above. Now appear to be wearing gloves.
Interesting number? Note dent on front of vehicle and two areas of impact damage to windscreen (also seen on image above and below) presumably caused by impacts with pedestrians as described.
and two impact points on windscreen synchronous to head impacts?
Calocane went to Sir Thomas Picton High School and his parents are members of Calvary Church in his hometown of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
They are "an amazing couple", according to Hazel Vaughan, wife of the pastor of the church Adrian.
And neighbours claimed he used to sit "out the back of his house with his top off, smoking and drinking" - as it emerged he was looking for a job at the time of the attack.
Man charged with murder after Nottingham stabbing deaths
Valdo Calocane charged after deaths of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates
Valdo Calocane, 31, of no fixed address, was charged after being arrested by police on suspicion of murder shortly after the attacks.
Nottinghamshire police said their officers found two 19-year-olds who had been stabbed to death in Ilkeston Road at around 4am on Tuesday. Both were students at Nottingham University. Calocane is charged with the murder of Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber.
Police said both were found “unresponsive” in the street when officers came across them after being called by members of the public.
Calocane is also charged with the murder of a third person, school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, who was also found stabbed in in Magdala Road, following calls to police from members of the public.
Earlier this week, police said that his van was stolen and later driven into pedestrians, injuring one man seriously and leaving two others with injuries.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust on Friday said two patients were now stable and one had been discharged after being hit by a van on Tuesday morning.
Calocane had himself been a student at Nottingham University where he studied engineering.
UPDATE - 23.1.2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyEsMGdX5hc
MI 5/6 connection again? https://news.sky.com/story/grace-omalley-kumar-family-hail-hero-daughter-killed-in-nottingham-attacks-who-tried-to-save-friend-13054373 "Calocane admitted killing Grace, Barnaby and Ian on the basis of diminished responsibility, a plea which the Crown Prosecution Service has now accepted. Calocane, 32, also known as Adam Mendes, had a history of mental illness, and even tried to hand himself into the MI5 headquarters in London, believing the British security services were controlling him."
"The killer has a four-year history of mental issues – which spiralled during lockdown – triggering a spate of alarming incidents which brought him to the attention of the university, police and healthcare professionals.
One young woman who was so terrified after being followed into her accommodation by Calocane that she jumped out of a window to escape him – sustaining serious injuries - a source said. The woman's mother was said to be so concerned she is believed to have contacted the university about Calocane, but he was allowed to continue his studies.
Unstable Calocane was at the centre of at least four incidents in Nottingham before his bloody spree, which began when he repeatedly knifed first year undergraduates Barnaby and Grace as they walked home from a nightclub.
In the first incident just weeks after the first national coronavirus lockdown was imposed in the spring of 2020, a source told the Mail Calocane followed a female student to her accommodation and threatened her – leaving her so terrified she jumped out of a window to escape him.
The young woman needed surgery as a result of the plunge, after which the university is understood to have made efforts to get Calocane mental health care. Calocane is believed to have spent around a month receiving hospital treatment around that time.
In a further incident in July 2020, Calocane is said to have broken into a neighbour's flat and threatened the occupants. Police were called and it is understood the future killer ended up being detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act until the end of that month.
Calocane was detained under the same Act in November 2021 and then again the following January. On the latter occasion, police were called after the 'sinister' student trapped a flatmate in their shared kitchen – having first grabbed him in a headlock and fractured his finger during a row over a dirty shower.
Officers took Calocane away and later told his flatmates the mature student had been sectioned.
One of the students who shared the accommodation with Calocane told MailOnline: 'Looking back, I think he was a ticking timebomb and he was going to explode some time.'"
It emerged following the killings that Calocane had turned up at MI5's headquarters in August 2022 and banged on the door demanding to be let in. He was reportedly 'moved on' by security personnel after his name was logged.
Calocane has no previous convictions, though he had been facing a charge of assaulting a police officer in relation to an earlier incident. The case was discontinued late last year. Rev Vaughan said the pandemic 'impacted him in a very bad way', adding: 'He nosedived into depression and was on very strong anti-depressants.
Following from: https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/23593914.hampstead-doctor-tribute-daughter-grace-kumar/
Sinead O’Malley, her mother, has been a consultant anaesthetist at The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, according to the Irish Times. According to The Irish Times, Grace also had a grandfather, Professor Kevin O’Malley, who is an anaesthetist as well as a former registrar and chief executive of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). It also emerged that Dr Sanjoy Kumar, Grace’s father, was a GP who saved three teenage victims after a knife attack in 2009.
UPDATE - 23.1.2024
This was obviouly a tragic event, with devastating consequences for at least the three families of the deceased victims, (Grace O'Malley-Kumar (19) Barnaby Webber (19) and Ian Coates (65) besides others. But the way it happened and was subsequently treated by press, police and courts, gave me misgivings that are resurrected now.
The accused perpatrator (Valdo Calocane, aka Adam Mendes (32) a dual Guinea-Bissau/Portuguese national has been found guilty only of Manslaughter on the grounds of 'diminished responsibility', owing to suffering from 'paranoid schizophrenia'.
There are clearly questions, given previous violent or aggressive incidents and 'Sectioning' under the Mental Health Acts, why he was deemed safe to roam at large. There is also an issue relating to the 'strong medicines' he was prescribed and whether, if he took them, they could have had an anti-inhibitary effect?
But those are not the only things that made me uneasy about this case and a tad suspicious from the beginning. I admit they could be misplaced but they still linger.
First matters of timing insofar it happened on the 12/13.6.2023 - exactly six years (note the numbers) from the date of the Grenfell House fire disaster. I have previously drawn attention to the many worrying features of that latter event, which despite at the very least, proven negligence, has resulted in not a single prosecution despite the deaths of more than seventy people.
It also happened to be just just two weeks to the day, prior to the Nicola Bulley Inquest held on the 26th June 2023. As everyone knows this missing person drowning created massive international interest and unprecidented security precautions when the Inquest was eventually held. In that respect, a high profile murder in Nottingham just two weeks before, could be guaranteed to divert media interest away from the said Inquest by creating another headline news story. Was that a factor in the timing of the Nottingham events I wonder?
Second, the parallels with the 'Fishmongers' Hall murders', which happened on 29.11.2019 which also exhibited serious questions and doubts concerning the official account. This also resulted in the deaths of attractive and popular male and female couple, graduates Jack Merritt (25) and Saskia Jones (23) The man said to be responsible Usman Kahn (28) British of Pakistani descent with links to terrorist groups, was out on licence from a 16 year sentence at the time. He was shot dead at the scene.
So both of the attackers were non-white British residents of foreign extraction with violent or threatening backgrounds in part at least. Apparently (The Telegraph reports) Nottinghamshire Police issued a warrant for the arrest of Valdo Calocane in September 2022 but failed to track him down. (The Chief Constable in a statement later apologised for this failure saying 'the police could have done more to arrest him.')
In the Nottingham case the attack took place in the early morning at about 4.00 AM as the students walked home. The police were called at 4.05 AM. It seems Calocane/Mendes was not positively identified at the scene, a description limited to a man dressed in black with a hood carrying a back pack.
In a report of the trial we have this: “"(A witness) was asleep in his bedroom in a detached house at the junction of Lucknow Drive and Magdala Road. At about 5am he awoke to the sounds of what he describes as repeated, 'blood-curdling screaming' and someone shouting, 'leave me'." ( https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/nottingham-attacks-live-valdo-calocane-9051747 )
This must presumably relate to the attack on sixty five year old, Mr Coates. An hour between the two events would have provided sufficient time for the same person to have committed the two sets of offences approximately 1.9 miles apart. But now we have a big problem in the account because at only 4.08 AM video records Calocane/Mendes attempting entry into and being forceable repelled from a hostel in Mapperley Road also nearly two miles away from the first attack.
The Sun reports it on 14th June 2023 as follows, “The exclusive footage obtained by Sun Online shows a man trying to climb through the front window of Seely Hirst House on Mapperley Road, at 4.08am Tuesday (13.6.2023) morning. A resident on the ground floor, named only as Trevor, punched the man in the face to stop him getting in, before firmly shutting the window in his face.”
If this is true, and as far as I am aware it has never been disputed, or the claim challenged that it was Calocane/Mendes who was trying to break in at that time at that location, I can only surmise it would give him an unassailable alibi, as it would be quite impossible to travel the almost two miles in under eight minutes, not to mention being shown in the video to be calm and unruffled in the video, quite impossible if he had done so. There is no suggestion he had any form of transport between the two locations.
Incredibly I must conclude if it was Calocane/Mendes in the video at the time described, he could not have been the attacker two miles away only eight minute before and it must have been another person in similar dress whe carried out the murders! Alternatively was it another person entirely and not the accused? I am amazed that neither prosecution or defence lawyers have high-lighted this exculpatory discrepancy.
HOWEVER IN THIS REPORT THE TIME OF THE ABOVE INCIDENT VARIES BY AN HOUR. How can this be explained? Did someone spot the error and correct it subsequently? Or did the Sun get the time wrong? I doubt the latter.
The following quote from: https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/nottingham-attacks-timeline-shows-valdo-9052422 23.1.2024
"The prosecutor said after killing Barnaby and Grace, the defendant walked towards Nottingham city centre. He said he was captured on CCTV walking from Player Street to Thurman Street and then on to Holland Street. By 4.41am he was at the Goose Fair Roundabout, walking towards Mansfield Road. He continued east, probably along Redcliffe Road. Mr Khalil said: "At 4.52am, the defendant rang his brother Elias again and this time he said, ‘This will be the last time I speak to you. Take the family out of the country’. Elias asked him: ‘Are you going to do something stupid’, and the defendant replied, ‘It’s already done’."
The prosecutor said Calacone then tried to break into Seely Hirst House, a hostel for homeless men in Mapperley Road, where he arrived at 5.01am. He said the defendant sought to gain access through a window but was confronted by an occupant who punched him in the face and the defendant retreated."
Calocane's arrest
"Mr Khalil said: "Having attempted to kill his last two victims in the pedestrian area at the junction of Upper Parliament Street, the defendant drove along Alfreton Road and into Bentink Road, stopping the van near the junction with Maples Street. Various Officers were involved in following the van, amongst whom were PC Whysall who drove out of Hooton Road onto Bentinck Road and saw the van stationary about 20m ahead of him. He did not think that there was anyone in the vehicle, but he then saw a male walking along the road and went to detain him.
"However, he realised the van had started to move so he went back to the van as an armed response vehicle arrived and pulled alongside the driver’s door. PC Whysall opened the passenger door and found the defendant in the driver’s seat holding a large dagger in his hand. The Officer shouted for him to drop the dagger, but he didn't so the taser was activated. He was joined by PC Bower who also discharged his taser, following which the defendant dropped the dagger into the footwell."
So who was the man "walking away from the van and was he ever detained?
Of course in pleading guilty to the reduced charge of manslaughter, the prosecution presumably did not have to prove its case with firm evidence linking the defendant to the crime. Nor for that matter reveal to the public what it was. For example I drew attention to the fact that when he was arrested, photographs show him wearing a tee-shirt only. It begs the question where was his black hooded top and did the police have it?Having stabbed three people it must surely have been contaminated and forensically linked to the deceased victims? Conversely if his clothes and body were free of blood stains, the appropriate conclusion could be drawn. Is it not strange that I can find no mention of this absolutely crucial information in the public domain? Similarly the recovered weapon. It is stated he also had other knives and a skaffolding pole in his back pack. Note there is no evidence of him wearing a back-pack in the Seeley Road video. Where was it when he apparently attempted the break-in at disputed time?
Perhaps everything stated by the prosecution is true and accurate, yet the disparity in the video timing remains. What of the taxi parked opposite the initial attack? What was it doing parked up at 4.00 AM conveniently positioned to video the attack. And who was the woman described as running behind the houses? Presumably not the female victim? And why was it difficult to see Mendes behind the wheel if the van?
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