- Valdo Calocane, who killed three people in Nottingham in June 2023, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and is now detained under an indefinite hospital order.
- A public inquiry is examining systemic failings in Calocane's mental health care, with his mother and brother urging politicians to address the “decimation” of funding for services.
- Two independent reports found that Calocane's care by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was “not always sufficient”, prompting health officials to admit it was “clear the system got it wrong”.
- Calocane was repeatedly admitted and discharged from mental health hospitals between 2020 and 2022, eventually being discharged to his GP without a risk assessment despite concerns about violent behaviour.
- While Calocane's family attributes the tragedy to systemic failures and underfunding, victims' families, such as Grace O'Malley-Kumar's father, believe individual psychiatrists failed in their duties, not solely due to underfunding.
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