MEDICS let triple killer Valdo Calocane refuse antipsychotic medication because he “did not like needles”, a report says.
The paranoid schizophrenic, 33, was permitted to turn down the slow-release drugs despite “lacking capacity” to make decisions about his own care, it adds.
Experts repeatedly asked that he be given the treatment as he consistently failed to take his pills.
The risk he posed was “not fully understood, managed, documented or communicated”.
The independent mental health homicide report, released today, also details his violent and disturbing behaviour in the two years before the horror.
He held flatmates “hostage”, smashed up a neighbour’s flat in a psychotic episode and punched a cop.
Calocane received an indefinite hospital order after killing students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, in Nottingham in June 2023.
He also tried to kill three others.
Dr Jessica Sokolov, of NHS England (Midlands), admitted to “clear failings” in his care and apologised to victims’ families.
NHS officials will release the report in full following pressure from the relatives after initially planning to issue just a summary.
The families want to know how “multiple organisations” failed to respond to the risk Calocane posed.
They are demanding a judge-led public inquiry.
Timeline of the Nottingham attacks
THE attacks started around 4am on June 13 on Ilkeston Road, Nottingham, when Calocane launched at Barnaby and Grace.
Prosecutor Karim Khalil KC said the “brutal” attack was captured from a taxi’s dashcam.
He added: “That footage shows that the devastating violence of the attacks was mirrored only by the deliberate and merciless way the defendant acted.”
Once he killed Grace and Barnaby, rampaging Calocane attempted to break into a home but was punched in the face by a stunned occupant.
Undeterred, he made his way to Magdala Road where he came across caretaker Ian.
He then used the van to run down the three pedestrians.
Police announced a “major incident” was taking place around 7am.
In the hours that followed, they revealed three people were dead, another was fighting for his life and two were injured.
Valdo Calocane was identified as the man, and arrested on suspicion of murder.
The families of Grace and Barnaby gathered at a vigil the day after they were killed.
On June 16, three days after the attack, he was charged with the triple killing.
One week after the attack, one of the men who was run down by Calocane’s van opened up about the horror and said he “remembered everything“.
On July 12, grandfather Ian was farewelled at a service filled with loved ones.
Two days later, “extraordinary” Barnaby’s mum broke down in tears at his funeral – where hundreds gathered to say goodbye.
And on July 21, more than 1,000 mourners came together to pay tribute to Grace.
Calocane was found guilty of the manslaughter of Grace and Barnaby, and 65-year-old grandfather Ian Coates on January 23
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