Nottingham killer sought arrest at MI5 HQ before 2023 attack, inquiry told
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<p>Valdo Calocane approached security at Thames House in 2021 but did not meet threshold for further assessment, public inquiry told</p><p>A man who killed three people during a 2023 knife attack in Nottingham had attempted to hand himself into MI5 for arrest two years earlier, an inquiry has heard.</p><p>Valdo Calocane, 34, fatally stabbed Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, during a stabbing spree in the city on 13 June 2023.</
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Nottingham killer sought arrest at MI5 HQ before 2023 attack, inquiry told Valdo Calocane approached security at Thames House in 2021 but did not meet threshold for further assessment, public inquiry told A man who killed three people during a 2023 knife attack in Nottingham had attempted to hand himself into MI5 for arrest two years earlier, an inquiry has heard. Valdo Calocane, 34, fatally stabbed Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, during a stabbing spree in the city on 13 June 2023. He admitted to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility and was sentenced to indefinite detention at a high-security hospital. The inquiry, which is being held in London, heard on Tuesday that, in May 2021, Calocane had attempted to hand himself in to MI5 at their headquarters at Thames House in central London. PC Graham Foster, who confronted Calocane outside after he had rung the building’s intercom, told the inquiry Calocane had informed a member of security that he wanted to be arrested and speak to the police. When asked why he did not question Calocane on why he wanted to be arrested, Foster told the inquiry he had aimed to “build a rapport” as he thought that was the best way to see if he was “offering any other information”. He described Calocane as “calm, compliant and coherent”. Supt Lorraine Busby-McVey of the Metropolitan police told the inquiry that Calocane was “looked at” by the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre , a unit that examines threats from fixated individuals, but he did not meet their threshold to be assessed further. Busby-McVey said that an intelligence report from the FTAC regarding Calocane’s visit to Thames House was passed to Nottinghamshire police the next day, 1 June, but that the force did not then carry out their own assessment. Busby-McVey said that was something she “would have quite liked” to have happened. She also said that the report, though sent to the force, was not available to all the officers ...
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