Court of Appeal refuses to change sentence of Nottingham triple killer

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The Court of Appeal has refused to alter the sentence of a man who killed three people in Nottingham last summer. Valdo Calocane, 32, was handed an indefinite hospital order after he admitted to the manslaughter of Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and Ian Coates by reason of diminished responsibility, and the attempted murder of an additional three last June.

Lawyers argued last week that the paranoid schizophrenic should instead be given a "hybrid" order in which he would receive treatment before serving the rest of his sentence in custody.

However, three senior judges dismissed the bid today (May 14), pointing to the "unimaginable grief" his offences have caused while also stating that his sentence was not unduly lenient since it was argued that his paranoid schizophrenia was "the sole identified cause of these crimes". Read more: "Girls, what are you doing?": Man's screams as he saw a home covered in blood Giving their judgment, the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr said: “There was no error in the approach adopted by the judge.

The sentences imposed were not arguably unduly lenient.” Baroness Carr added: “It is impossible to read of the circumstances of this offending without the greatest possible sympathy for the victims of these terrible attacks, and their family and friends.