Nottingham attack victim's mother shares ‘dismay’ over police ‘doubling down’ after ‘flawed investigation’ accusation

The mother of Nottingham attack victim Barnaby Webber has shared the “dismayed” reaction of families to what she described as a “terribly flawed investigation” into the attack with GB News.

Emma Webber had previously accused Nottinghamshire Police of deliberately concealing details about killer Valdo Calocane's background.

Students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were killed after being stabbed to death by Calocane in June 2023.

Speaking about her experiences on the inquiry investigating the following investigations, the grieving mother said that it was “very harrowing to sit through”.

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Regarding Nottinghamshire police, Mrs Webber said that the force was “doubling down”.

She told the People's Channel: “There's no admission of what, a very clear failure. So we're hugely disappointed. Not terribly surprised.

“It was a terribly flawed investigation.

“There are revelations coming out almost daily that we weren't aware of. More and more failures, and more and more missed opportunities."

To that end, Mrs Webber despaired about “years and years of mismanagement by the NHS and the Crown Prosecution Service”.

The grieving mother addressed special prosecutor Alan Murphy, whose behaviour she described as leaving her “shaken and so furious with him”.

“He was like he was on a chat show.”

Mrs Webber's comment prompted an intervention from GB News host Andrew Pierce, who said: “That's a pretty extraordinary allegation to make. Was he just being very cavalier?

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Mrs Webber then replied: “I would say (he was) arrogant. It was defensive. And yeah, we did absolutely nothing wrong.”

“My take on Mr Murphy in particular was just I found it terribly, terribly upsetting. His demeanour when he was challenged... You could see he was clearly ruffled.”

She clarified that the statement was her opinion, but it was also “very much that of the other families”.

Mrs Webber also refreshed her criticism of the decision not to sanction Calocane because officials were concerned that too many black males had already been admitted after he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia back in 2020.

“This is someone who has been sectioned four times.

"One of those times that he should have been sectioned was because there's an overrepresentation of black people being sectioned in Nottingham. That is rubbish.

“If you're dangerous or dangerous, it doesn't matter what colour you are," Mrs Webber told The People's Channel.

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