The fathers of Nottingham attack victims Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar have condemned a new report into the triple-killing, claiming it holds "several failures" and "isn't worth the paper it is printed on".
Students Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and caretaker Ian Coates were killed by Valdo Calocane in the 2023 attack.
In a small victory for the families, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced to Parliament today a full statutory inquiry would be chaired by Her Honour Deborah Taylor.
However, the fathers criticised the NHS Mental Health Homicide Review given to them and questioned who was accountable for the failures that led to Calocane being released.
Dr Sanjoy Kumar and David Webber told GB News of the 'incompetent' report they received as part of their push for a statutory inquiry
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Speaking to GB News, father of Grace O'Malley-Kumar, Dr Sanjoy Kumar, explained: "Today we get what the Prime Minister promised us, we get to find the failures before we fix them. It's all about identifying the failures, and there have been several.
"This is one of them. This is the NHS report that had been supplied to us. The homicide report, it's not worth the paper that it's been printed on."
Detailing why the report had infuriated the victims's families, Kumar added: "There's no names of psychiatrists who actually cocked up. And in terms of incompetent psychiatrists, they still haven't been identified.
"Valdo Calocane was sectioned four times. Was it four doctors who failed us four times? Or was it one doctor who failed us that many times? So we'd like to know the detail, there is no detail. So today we are hoping we can get to that detail."
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Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were killed by Valdo Calocane in the Nottingham attack in 2023
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Echoing the thoughts of Kumar, Barnaby Webber's father David said it is "beggar's belief" that an individual like Calocane was deemed fit for release by doctors.
Webber told GB News: "How these people can release someone like Calocane came back to the GP when they know how dangerous he is, it's beggars belief.
"While that report is incompetent and it is an incompetent report, I don't believe it's worth the paper it's written on - however, it does say something there that when you actually read the context of how dangerous he was, it begs the question, what goes on in people's heads? How do these people live with themselves doing what they do?"
Highlighting the scale of the issue relating to mental health homocides, Kumar stressed that there are "two homicides for mental health patients almost every week" - branding it a "national disgrace".
Webber and Kumar told GB News they want to 'make the country safer' in their names
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Discussing the next steps in their fight for justice, Kumar and Webber told GB News that they want to see "zero mental health homocides", and to make Britain the "safest country in Europe".
Kumar said: "What we want to do as families is see that there are zero homicides for mental health patients, and that they are fully avoidable.
"If people have to lose their jobs and maybe made examples of, that is the only way we're going to change Britain, and it's the only way we're going to get our country to be one of the safest in Europe.
"We don't want anything more than the normal public deserve. We do not want any special treatment, we just want to find the people who didn't do their jobs.
"We want every stone unturned because at the end of the day, our beautiful daughter and son are not going to come back."
Webber concluded: "If you don't change these institutions and what they're doing and the practices they're employing, then this is just going to keep happening, and people like us are going to be created every week.
"And I can tell you now, the pain and the suffering that we're going through on a regular basis because of this is horrendous, and it just needs to change."
