Emma Webber, the mother of Barnaby Webber, has hit out at a ruling for a Jihadi knifeman who stabbed two women at a Marks & Spencer store in Burnley, Lancashire.
Webber has been through months of trauma after her son was killed by Valdo Calocane in a crazed stabbing frenzy in Nottingham last year - an act that earned the killer a life sentence in a high-security hospital.
It was today announced that Munawar Hussain, 60, will serve a similar punishment after he attacked a store manager and a customer with a knife in 2020.
Under the Mental Health Act, it was deemed that both were best suited to serving their time in hospital.
Emma Webber is concerned about Munawar Hussain being handed a hospital sentence
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But Webber said on GB News that the ruling is a disappointing one and the punishment should have been more severe.
“I am no expert in the law or in medicine or the criminal justice system, but I am fast learning there are some major flaws in all of them”, she said.
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Valdo Calocane was given an indefinite hospital order in January after pleading guilty to manslaughterGB News“Unfortunately, they have culminated in the loss of my son, Grace and Ian. Hospital order means just that - it is sending a patient to hospital for treatment. There is no form of punishment.
“Calocane has manipulated and managed to use his mental illness. By the way, we don’t dispute he has a mental illness.
“Who would do this in their right mind? Nobody would. It’s not an act of retaliation, it was planned.
“It’s so wrong that this lighter sentencing with no sentencing can be handed down - it’s happened time and time again. Indefinite doesn’t mean indefinite, it means anything but that.
Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were fatally stabbed by Valdo CalocanePA“87 per cent of indefinite hospital orders are out within 10 years, 98 per cent within 20 years.”
Ch Supt Sarah Kenwright of Counter Terrorism Policing North West said: "These incidents are deeply disturbing and traumatising for all the victims."
She added: "No one should go to their place of work or out shopping and fear for their lives.
"Sadly this has been a reality for three people, who have undoubtedly had their lives changed, both physically and mentally, by Hussain’s actions."