Paranoid schizophrenic who killed Nottingham students in random stabbing attack handed hospital order

Valdo Calocane has been handed an indefinite hospital order after he killed three people and left three more injured during a stabbing rampage in Nottingham last June.

Nottingham university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, all died in the attack in the early hours of June 13.

Calocane, 32, who the court heard was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order and will "very probably" spend the rest of his life in a high-security facility. Earlier this week the prosecution accepted Calocane's pleas of not guilty to murder and guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He also admitted three counts of attempted murder.

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Handing down his sentencing at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday, at the end of a three-day hearing, Judge Mr Justice Turner told the killer: “You committed a series of atrocities in this city which ended the lives of three people. Your sickening crimes both shocked the nation and wrecked the lives of your surviving victims and the families of them all.”

Wearing glasses, a dark suit and a light blue shirt without a tie, Calocane stood with his hands at his side and showed no emotion as he looked towards the sentencing judge.

The court previously heard how Calocane, a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Nottingham, hid in the shadows in Ilkeston Road at around 4am on June 13 dressed in black and armed with a dagger. He spotted Barnaby and Grace walking back to their student accommodation after an end-of-term