From left to right, Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar who were killed by Valdo Calocane in Nottingham last year The decision comes following the Attorney General’s bid to change Colocane’s sentence.
“Had the offender not suffered the mental condition that he did, the sentencing judge would doubtless have been considering a whole life term of imprisonment,” Baroness Carr said. The 32-year-old’s pleas were accepted by prosecutors in January after medical evidence showed he has paranoid schizophrenia.
Peter Joyce KC, for Calocane, said none of the offences would have been committed “but for the psychosis”, and imposing a hybrid order would mean he would be “punished for being mentally ill”. The judge who handed down Calocane’s original sentence, Mr Justice Turner, told him his “sickening crimes” meant he would likely be detained indefinitely in a high-security hospital “very probably for the rest of your life”.
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