Nottingham Spree Killer Visited MI5 HQ and Begged Them to ‘Stop Controlling Him’

A spree killer who stabbed six people in Nottingham, leaving three of them dead, had been hearing voices for years and had visited MI5’s London headquarters in 2021 to ask them to stop “controlling him,” a court has heard. Valdo Calocane, 32, had originally been charged with the murder of Nottingham University students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, in Nottingham in the early hours of June 13, 2023. But on Tuesday his plea of guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility was accepted by the Crown and the murder charges were dropped, much to the chagrin of at least one of the victims’ families....