Valdo Calocane attacked police officer less than two years before Nottingham attacks

"Valdo Calocane attacked a police officer who was helping doctors to detain him two years before he fatally stabbed three people in Nottingham, a public inquiry has heard. Footage released by Nottinghamshire Police shows Calocane headbutting, punching and swinging handcuffs at Police Constable Barnaby Pritchard on 3, September 2021. The attack caused swelling to the officer's face."

"The inquiry heard that Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, had been refusing to take his medication when he launched the 2021 attack. He was taken in a marked police van to hospital, as he had been tasered, before he was taken to a mental health facility."

"Calocane was charged with assaulting an emergency worker and summonsed to attend Nottingham Magistrates' Court in September 2022, but failed to appear. There was a warrant for his arrest when he committed the attacks on 13 June, 2023, when he killed University of Nottingham undergraduates Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and grandfather Ian Coates, 65."

Valdo Calocane, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, assaulted Police Constable Barnaby Pritchard on September 3, 2021, headbutting, punching, and swinging handcuffs at him during a mental health detention. The attack caused facial swelling to the officer. Calocane was refusing psychiatric medication at the time. He was tasered and taken to hospital, then transferred to a mental health facility. He was charged with assaulting an emergency worker and summonsed to Nottingham Magistrates' Court in September 2022 but failed to appear. An arrest warrant remained active when Calocane fatally stabbed three people on June 13, 2023: University of Nottingham undergraduates Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and grandfather Ian Coates, 65.

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