Nottingham triple killer headbutted PC two years before fatal stabbings

Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane repeatedly hit a police officer in the face less than two years before his deadly knife attacks, an inquiry has heard.

He had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was being detained by medics when he punched, headbutted and swung handcuffs at Nottinghamshire Police Constable Barnaby Pritchard, causing swelling to his face. Less than two years later he would go on to kill University of Nottingham undergraduates Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and grandfather Ian Coates, 65.

He also attempted to kill three more during the attack in the early hours of 13 June 2023. On Wednesday PC Pritchard told the London inquiry that he was called to Calocane's Nottingham address on 3 September 2021.

The former student was refusing to take his medication and resisting doctors' efforts to detain him, he said. Calocane was "very calm" when they arrived at his address and "was very unemotional with any response.