Calocane, a paranoid schizophrenic, stabbed 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, kkilling them in Nottingham in 2023.
Previously, Calocane underwent several episodes in which he believed he was hearing voices. To appease his delusions, he broke into apartments on three different occasions. Twice, he was convinced that his mother was in danger. On one of those occasions, the woman who lived in the apartment Calocane had broken into was so terrified of him that she jumped from a first-floor window to escape him. He was placed on medication by doctors when he was found to be too dangerous to himself and to others. ... His mother, Celeste, asked the mental health team to keep him until she arrived from Wales, but her pleas were ignored by authorities.
The medical files contain a July 2020 meeting with health and care professionals during which Calocane was observed by a psychiatrist. The professional stated, "There seems to be no insight or remorse ... and perhaps Valdo will end up killing someone." Dr. Richard Taylor, a forensic psychiatrist with 30 years of experience, said he had never seen a comment like that documented in records before. He has treated seriously mentally ill patients, and testified as an expert witness in over 150 court cases. He is not involved in Valdo Calocane's case.
On September 8, 2020, Calocane’s community mental health team was notified about his risk to others. He was then taken to the hospital. He was sectioned under section 3 of the Mental Health Act, which allows for a longer hospital stay of up to six months.
Calocane insisted to them that he was still receiving messages from what he termed the "old voices." He still believed he had the power to command a split personality and was functioning on a daily basis as a normal citizen. Two weeks after this insistence, he was discharged from Highbury Hospital and, upon discharge, was given the formal diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia to pass along to his GP. His family had a close association with mental health services, but they were not informed of this serious diagnosis after he left the hospital. They were led to believe he was still having just isolated episodes of something that resembled a bad or long-lasting flu.
They prescribed him a stronger medication. Even though he had indicated to the care team that he was on an upward path concerning his mental health by spring of 2021, his mother reached out to them with concern that he appearing to be unwell again. Calocane, at around five in the morning on the day of the attacks, called Elias. He resumed a conversation they had previously been having, in which he had been imploring his brother to get the family out of the country. He was under the delusion that they were not safe in the UK and that he was being controlled by the government.
I finally asked him, "Are you going to do something dumb?" And he said, "It's already done." Then he hung up. I thought, "What the hell do you mean? You're hurting yourself?" I really thought this might end in suicide. ...
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