Arabic version: التحقيق مع مؤسسة تابعة لهيئة الصحة الوطنية بشأن القتل الخطأ في هجمات نوتنغهام

According to BBC News, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is being investigated for corporate manslaughter over its care and treatment of Valdo Calocane, who killed Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham in June 2023.

Northumbria Police confirmed it was conducting the investigation on behalf of Nottinghamshire Police. The force said it was in contact with the victims’ families and survivors and was committed to supporting them, but said it would not be appropriate to comment further. The trust said it would co-operate fully with police, as it had with the statutory Nottingham Inquiry.

Calocane was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020 and was under the trust’s care for two years before being discharged in September 2022. The inquiry heard that he had been sectioned four times under the Mental Health Act during that period and that he was discharged after failing to attend appointments. Evidence also raised concerns that his risk to others had not been properly assessed or managed.

Following the attacks, Calocane pleaded guilty to three counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and three counts of attempted murder. He is serving an indefinite hospital order in a high-security facility. Dr Sanjoy Kumar, Grace O’Malley-Kumar’s father, said he was “delighted” that the threshold for a corporate manslaughter investigation had been met. Emma Webber, Barnaby Webber’s mother, described the investigation as the “beginning of the reckoning” and called for full candour and transparency from those required to take part.