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Triple killer was discharged from mental health services ‘because NHS trust could not find him’

The Independent·Sophie Robinson·27 days ago
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Schizophrenic Valdo Calocane was discharged from mental health services to his GP just months before he killed three people, an inquiry has heard. Healthcare workers could not find him, leading to his release from care. Calocane, a former mechanical engineering student, had been under the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s supervision for two years. During this period, a consultant psychiatrist had warned he would ultimately kill someone. His discharge by the trust’s Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service occurred in September 2022, after he failed to attend appointments or make contact with the team. Months later, he stabbed to death students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, in Ilkeston Road, Nottingham, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65, in the early hours of June 13 2023, before he tried to murder three more people with a stolen van in the city centre.…

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