Starmer Calls for Inquiry Into Police and Mental Health Failures That Led to Nottingham Killings

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for a public inquiry to look into mistakes by the police and others that may have led to the Nottingham attacks in June 2023, in which three people were killed and several others injured. On Thursday, Valdo Calocane was given an indefinite hospital order after he admitted three counts of manslaughter by diminished responsibility. In the early hours of June 13, 2023 Calocane stabbed Nottingham University student Barnaby Webber and his friend Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and then school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, before stealing Mr. Coates’s van and trying to run over three other people. After the sentencing Barnaby’s mother, Emma Webber, said Nottinghamshire Police’s Assistant Chief Constable Rob Griffin—who admitted police “should have done more” to arrest Calocane before the killings—had “blood on [his] hands.”...