The Court of Appeal refuses to change the sentence of the Valdo Calocane triple

The Court of Appeal refused to change the sentence of Valdo Calocane, who killed three people in Nottingham last summer. The 32-year-old was given an indefinite hospital order after admitting the manslaughter of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates due to diminished responsibility and the attempted murder of three others last June.

The Attorney General referred the sentence to the Court of Appeal in February, with lawyers arguing last week that Calocane – who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia – should be given a “hybrid” order where he is treated before serving the rest of his sentence in custody. .

But three senior judges rejected the request on Tuesday, saying that while Calocane’s crimes had caused “unimaginable pain”, his sentence was not unduly lenient because his paranoid schizophrenia was “the only identified cause of these crimes”.

Giving her judgment, Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr said: “There was no error in the approach taken by the judge.

“It cannot be disputed that the sentences imposed were excessively lenient.”

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