A doctor warned three years before the Nottingham stabbings that Valdo Calocane’s mental illness was so severe he could ‘end up killing someone’.
It comes as one of a series of opportunities that could have prevented the killings in June 2023.
The 32-year-old paranoid schizophrenic was given an indefinite hospital order earlier this year after he went on a rampage in Nottingham city centre, killing 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and caretaker Ian Coates, 65.
His victims’ families wanted him put on trial for murder, but in January this year Nottingham Crown Court accepted his guilty plea for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Now, the family of Calocane has said a psychiatrist warned three years prior to the stabbings he could ‘end up killing someone’.
But they told BBC Panorama they only received the 300-page medical summary containing the warning after his sentencing.
Calocane was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020…