Killer Valdo Calocane, who stabbed three people to death in Nottingham last June, was liable to kill according to the evaluation of a doctor that was revealed through his medical records.
BBC’s Panorama revealed the information which it said was given to them by the killer’s relatives.
Calocane killed Grace O’Malley-Kumar, who died trying to save her friend Barnaby Webber, who was set upon by the killer, as the pair of 19-year-olds walked home from a night out in their student town.
Calocane also killed 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coats as well as injuring three others by hitting them with a vehicle he had stolen from the Coats after fatally stabbing him.
The doctors emerged from a 300 page report on the killer which was compiled three years before the fatal incident.
Calocane’s brother Elias said that his brother had confessed on a phone call in 2020 during which he had cried that he had been hearing voices, although the family say that he did not suffer from mental illness during adolescence.
Calocane had repeatedly broken into apartments reportedly believing that his mother was being raped inside, and on one occasion had terrified an occupant so much so that the woman sustained severe injuries jumping out of a first floor window.
This incident took place only an hour after he was released from a mental health facility.
After this Calocane was re-arrested and taken to Highbury Hospital in Nottingham under section 2 of the Mental Health Act which allowed for him to be sectioned at the hospital against his will for up to 28 days.
Four weeks after this he attempted another breakin which led to another arrest where he was placed under Section 3 of the mental health act which allows for a patient to be held against their will for up to 6 months.
Medical records showed that a psychiatric evaluation of Calocane, which took place in June 2023 – almost exactly three years before his killing spree – observed that “there seems to be no insight or remorse and the danger is that this will happen again and perhaps Valdo will end up killing someone”.
The exact wording was as follows: Dr. ____ observed that there seems to be no insight of remorse and that the danger is that this will happen again and perhaps Valdo will end up killing someone.
However two weeks after these remarks were noted Calocane was discharged from Highbury Hospital and a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia was sent to his GP.
In 2021 Calocane admitted to members of a community mental health team that he had lied to staff at Highbury Hospital that he was no longer hearing voices because he didn’t want to be there anymore.
He admitted that he still heard voices who would “talk to each other about him”, and make suggestions that he should “prove his power.”
Continuing to insist that he was not mentally ill as he believed that the voices were real police officers and intelligence agents his dose of medication was increased.
In September 2021 he was sectioned again after police arrived at his home before he proceeded to punch an officer three times.
He was again sectioned under Section 3 of the mental health act, this time at Priory Arnold Hospital just outside Nottingham, but was deemed fit to be released by a psychiatrist three weeks later.
He was sectioned for a fourth time in 2022 after assaulting his university flat mate.
During this section his community health nurse said that he had repeatedly missed appointments and had not been taking his tablets.
The nurse recommended that long lasting injectable medication be administered, however this was not done.
By September 2022 he had been discharged back to the care of his GP despite more evidence that he had not been attending appointments or taking medication as prescribed.
The same day as the decision to discharge Calocane was made a judge issued a warrant for his arrest after he did not make a court appearance in relation to the 2021 assault on a police officer, however police did not carry out the warrant.