The Attorney General Victoria Prentis will review the sentence of triple killer Valdo Calocane after his victims’ heartbroken familes claimed he “got away with murder” in a scathing attack on the Crown Prosecution Service.
The 32-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, who was initially charged with murder, did not plead guilty to murder after the brutal killings of Nottingham univertsity students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley Kumar – both 19 – and 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates on June 13 of last year. Instead, he admitted to manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility, leaving the victim’s loved ones enraged.
The Attoney General Victoria Prentis, who is also the Tory MP for Banbury, has received a formal complaint about the “unduly lenient” sentence, The Telegraph reports. 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.
Barnaby Webber’s grieving mum Emma slammed the CPS outside Nottingham Crown Court in a heartbroken statement after sentencing, saying the court process felt “rushed” and “railroaded”. Meanwhile James Coates, the son of victim Ian Coates added: “This man has made a mockery of the system, and he has got away with murder.”
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