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.
Dr Sanjoy Kumar pictured from a previous report (Image: Newsquest archive)
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?
