Valdo Calocane killed three people and tried to kill many others, in Nottinghamin June 2023. The investigation, which will continue in the coming weeks, found that there were more episodes of violence, one of them against a police officer. He also assaulted a roommate and two co-workers.
The Luso-Guinean man who, in 2023, killed university students and an employee at the University of Nottingham, no United Kingdom, he allegedly attacked a police officer, a roommate and, a month before the crime, two co-workers. The investigation continues. Over the next eight weeks, more than 100 people should be heard.
Valdo Calocane two 19-year-old students – Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar – and a university employee – Ian Coates – aged 65. The three fatal victims were found dead in the street in different locations. Nottingham. On the same occasion, tried to kill three other people behind the wheel of a van. The case dates back to June 2023.
The investigation led by Judge Deborah Taylor KC found, according to the that a month earlier, the attacked two coworkerswho were also a couple. He punched the man in the face and pushed the woman.
A company manager of Arvato logistics, where Valdo Calocane worked, tells authorities that he heard “a scream.” When he reached the bottom of the warehouse, the man – who claimed not to know why he had been attacked – had already been attacked and was on the floor.
Another company employee, who describes the incident as “very violent”, reports that he saw a box cutter on the floor and kicked it away.
Authorities are listening to statements about the perpetrator of the triple homicide to understand what may have led to the fatal stabbing, in June 2023. In the next two months they should be heard more than 100 peopleincluding police and mental health professionals.
According to the investigation, cited by the man attacked a housematein January 2022, and prevented him from leaving the house. There is also reports of violence against a police officerin September 2021.
Valdo Calocane is thereusage-Guinean and has paranoid schizophrenia
The Portuguese-Guinean, now 34 years old, had been diagnosed, in July 2020, with paranoid schizophreniaa condition that can cause delusions of persecution and auditory hallucinations.
According to the , parents, originally from Guinea-Bissau, worked on the island of Madeira and obtained Portuguese nationality in 2006. Afterwards, the couple will have moved to the United Kingdom with three children and acquired resident status as citizens of the European Union.
Non-UK resident since 2007, Valdo Calocane he studied Mechanical Engineering na University of Nottingham.
He is being held indefinitely in a high security hospital.
