Valdo Calocane went on to kill three people and seriously injure three others in the Nottingham Attacks
14:58, 24 Feb 2026Updated 15:22, 24 Feb 2026
Valdo Calocane was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in January 2024(Image: Nottinghamshire Police)
Leicestershire Police erased bodycam footage of an assault Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane carried out before fatally stabbing three people. The incident took place in Kegworth a month before the tragic attacks, at a warehouse where he was employed.
A lawyer representing the police force apologised to families of Calocane’s victims as well as survivors of the attack during a public inquiry into the incidents in Nottingham in June 2023.
The inquiry aims to examine missed opportunities to intervene with Calocane before the series of stabbings which killed university of Nottingham students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and grandad Ian Coates.
After stabbing Barney, Grace and Ian, Calocane then ran over Wayne Birkett, Marcin Gawronski and Sharon Miller with Mr Coates’ van. They all survived, but with life-changing injuries and psychological impacts.
Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar
The inquiry heard how on May 5, 2023, Calocane attacked two colleagues while working for Arvato at a distribution centre in Kegworth, Leicestershire. He punched a man in his face and head before kicking a female colleague who had come to his defence. Both victims required medical care and sought hospital treatment.
Leicestershire Police officers PC Libbie-Mae Taylor and PC Connor Amos-Perkins arrived at the scene around 25 minutes later, by which time Calocane had been escorted from the premises.
Initial witness accounts and a recording of the CCTV footage covering the incident were captured on PC Taylor’s body worn video camera, but this was automatically deleted due to an “administrative error” by PC Taylor in the recording of the video on the police system.
PC Taylor also failed to register that Calocane was recorded on the police database for the assault on a Nottinghamshire police officer when entering him into the system.
Rachel Langdale KC, counsel for the inquiry, said: “You, Chair, may want to consider whether the assault at Arvato was a serious missed opportunity, whether an arrest of [Calocane] under the existing warrant or in respect of this assault, might have triggered a different chain of events.”
She also said the inquiry had unearthed evidence of an attack on another man at a different warehouse on February 15, 2023, which was not reported to the police.
The inquiry also heard an opening statement from Hugh Davies KC, representing three Leicestershire Police officers – PC Amos-Perkins, PC Taylor and PC Read.
Addressing the families of Calocane’s victims and the survivors of his attack, he said the officers were “sorry for what you have endured and what you are enduring”.
He admitted some operational errors were made when officers attended Calocane’s attack on colleagues at a distribution warehouse in Kegworth in May 2023.
This included PC Taylor not saving her body-worn footage and failing to notice Calocane was already subject to an arrest warrant. PC Amos-Perkins also admitted he should have double-checked as her superior.
Leicestershire Police, represented by James Berry KC, admitted: “A number of things could and should have been done differently” in its handling of the case.
Responding to Ms Langdale’s comments about a potential “different chain of events” if the officers’ mistakes were not made, Mr Berry said there was “no evidence as to what difference these would have likely made” to Calocane carrying out the attacks later that year.
Valdo Calocane was given an indefinite hospital order in January 2024 after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Since then a string of damning reports have been published, prompting victims’ families to tirelessly campaign for this inquiry.
