Nottingham attack victim Barnaby Webber’s bedroom has remained untouched since his death as his family deal with “overwhelming” grief. Students Barnaby and friend Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, were knifed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane as they walked home from a night out.
Calocane, 32, then went on to kill school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, before trying to kill three more with his stolen van.
Now the grieving family of Barnaby have talked about their heartbreak for a BBC interview which reveals that his room has remained unchanged.
Younger brother Charlie, 16, took the BBC reporter into his sports-mad brother’s bedroom which is packed full of cricket, rugby, football and basketball memorabilia.
He said in the interview: “In a way it’s quite overwhelming to come in here.
“It’s got a lot of memories in this room. Literally everything here is how he left it. No one has touched anything here.”
Charlie added: “Obviously it’s massively massively devastating. I need people to realise that it’s something that isn’t just affecting my life, it’s affecting everyone’s life. People I’ll know in the future, people I know now, people around me – everyone’s life is affected.
“People who didn’t know him but they knew me – it’s affecting them because it’s affecting me. So it affects everybody.”
Attorney General Victoria Prentis will review the sentence of triple killer Calocane after his victims’ heartbroken families claimed he “got away with murder” in a scathing attack on the Crown Prosecution Service.
Calocane was initially charged with murder but did not plead guilty to murder after the brutal killings of the Nottingham university students and caretaker Ian Coates on June 13 of last year.
Instead he admitted to manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility and was handed an indefinite hospital order at Nottingham Crown Court.
Prentis, who is also the Tory MP for Banbury, received a formal complaint about the sentence. She will now consider whether to refer the case to the Court of Appeal which would see a set of judges scrutinise whether the killer received an appropriate sentence.
James Coates, the son of victim Ian Coates, said: “This man has made a mockery of the system, and he has got away with murder.”
