Nottingham attacks killer Valdo Calocane will not have his manslaughter sentence changed after the Court of Appeal refused an appeal that claimed the sentence was "unduly lenient". Attorney General Victoria Prentis applied to the court in February after Calocane was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in January.
But the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, Lord Justice Edis and Mr Justice Garnham ruled that his sentence was fair when judgement was handed down at 10am on Tuesday, May 14 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. They concluded that "there was no error in the approach adopted by the judge" and that "the sentences imposed were not arguably unduly lenient."
"But neither the judge nor this court can ignore the medical evidence as to the offender’s condition which led to these dreadful events or the threat to public safety which the offender continues to pose." They confirmed, however, that the extreme nature of Calocane's violence makes it "very likely" that he will spend the rest of his life in hospital.
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