SOMERSET mother Emma Webber has called for a meeting with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer after a report over the care of the man who killed her son.

An independent report into NHS care of Valdo Calocane – who killed three people in Nottingham in June 2003 – found a number of failings.

They included 33-year-old Calocane – who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia – being allowed to avoid taking long-lasting antipsychotic medication because he did not like needles, as well as revealing how he punched a police officer and held his flatmates “hostage”.

In June 2023, he attacked and killed 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates, before attempting to kill three other people.

Calocane will be detained in a high-security hospital for treatment, with a judge at Nottingham Crown Court saying he will likely never be released when sentencing him for manslaughter in January last year.

The manslaughter charge was accepted after experts agreed his schizophrenia meant he was not fully responsible for his actions.

Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber, and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, were attacked in Nottingham. Pictures: CPS

After the report was issued, Taunton-based Emma, whose son Barnaby died in the attacks, Calocane had “got away with murder” and the hospital order was an “enormous miscarriage of justice”.

“This has to be addressed. So enough is enough,” she said. “It’s shameful we’ve had to fight so hard against the public agencies and institutions that should be there to protect us.

“Have the respect to admit failure, accept the consequences but, most importantly, make the change now. It’s desperately needed to keep the public safe.”

“None of us should be here today. Anything and everything that could go wrong did,” she added. “Barnaby, Ian and Grace would be here today if those concerned across these agencies had just done their job properly.”

“He knew what he was doing,” she said. “He serves no punishment for his crimes.”

Now, she said, the families wanted to take their arguments to the Prime Minister.

“To the prime minister, and the rest of the government, make this trauma stop and make our fight stop,” she added.

“You have confirmed there will be a public inquiry, but agree the terms that we’ve been pleading for, make it statutory so all of the agencies, organisations, institutions and, vitally, individuals must and will be compelled to attend, give evidence and tell the truth.

“I do think it’s time now that we get the opportunity to meet with the prime minister.”

Grace’s father, Dr Sanjoy Kumar, said the NHS “failed to put provisions in the community to make sure he took his (Calocane’s) medication, ultimately irresponsibly discharging him into the community to do harm.

“For the loss of our beautiful, brave daughter, Grace, there must be change. This is a watershed moment.

“We demand a public inquiry with statutory powers, powers to compel witnesses to appear to account for their failures.

“We demand accountability and we will not stop until we get justice for the Nottingham attacks.

“A system is made out of individuals – if individuals are not held to account, systems will not change in our country.”

Grace’s mother, Dr Sinead O’Malley-Kumar, said: “Accountability on an individual level is essential.”