Nottingham attack: We can’t look at pictures of our children anymore – we feel like a statistic, say mothers of two teenage victims – The Sun

THE mothers of two of the Nottingham stabbing victims have told how it is too difficult to look at pictures of their children – as they vowed to keep fighting for justice.

Valdo Calocane stabbed 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and schoolteacher Ian Coates, 65, killed with a dagger in June last year.

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Calocane, 32, was given a hospital order for manslaughter by diminished responsibility after Nottingham Crown Court learned that he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

Speak with The timesDr. Sinead O’Malley-Kumar, 54, and Emma Webber, 51, said they felt “foolish” for thinking justice would be properly served, and suggested that any evidence given to authorities and that ” did not fit their story” was rejected.

Ms Webber said: “I feel like it’s a statistic. A cheaper, easier win.

“I know it’s controversial to say it. But I lost my precious son, so I feel entitled to that. opinion.”

Mrs O’Malley-Kumar said: ‘Grace is gone. Barney’s gone. We have nothing else to fight for.

“All we can do is not regret doing our best to get the answers we want. And we are going to get justice for our children.”

They said it was often too hard to look at pictures of their children, and difficult to see their friends because of their “overwhelming” pain.

Mrs Webber explained: “It’s so hard to explain the pain when you even look at him.

“And in my head I’m saying, ‘I’m really sorry, Barney. I don’t look at you because I just can’t, because it’s too painful.’ ”

The Attorney General ordered an independent judgement of the handling of the case by the CPS, after the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised the families of the victims that “we will get the answers.”

But the women and their families said they now wanted a public inquiry to fully investigate any previous failings by the police NHS And Police with Calocane, and the decision-making process in the legal system.

university students Grace and Barnaby were on their way home student housing of a nightclub on the morning they died.

The teens were supposed to be just five minutes from home when the horror unfolded.

Barnaby was an enthusiast cricketerand his family called him “beautiful, brilliant and smart”.

Grace was one rising English hockey playerand had risen through London’s Southgate Hockey Club.

Ian Coates, a school caretaker, was also killed.

The director where Ian worked called him “a much-loved colleague who always went the extra mile for the benefit of our children”.

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