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Nottingham attack: Fathers of Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber blast 'incompetent' NHS report
Apr 22, 2025
The fathers of Nottingham attack victims Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar have condemned a new report into the triple-killing, claiming it holds "several failures" and "isn't worth the paper it is printed on".Students Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and caretaker Ian Coates were killed by Valdo Calocane in the 2023 attack.FULL STORY HERE.
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the father of Grace O'Malley Kumar, Dr Sanjay Kumar
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and the father of Barnaby Webber, David Webber. You both visited Parliament earlier on
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Gentlemen, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Can I first come to you perhaps, Sanjay
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Tell us about today and tell us what the next steps are on this inquiry. Well, today we get what the Prime Minister promised us
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We get to find the failures before we fix them. It's all about identifying the failures
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and there have been several. This is one of them. This is the NHS report that had been supplied to us, the homicide report
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Not worth the paper that's been printed on. No names of psychiatrists who actually, you know, cocked up
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And in terms of incompetent psychiatrists, they still haven't been identified. We would like to know, you know, Valda Calicane was sectioned four times
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Was it four doctors who failed us four times or was it one doctor who failed us that many times
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So we'd like to know the detail. There is no detail. So today we are hoping we can get to detail
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And David Webber, what does justice look like for you? Do you want people to be to be prosecuted
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Do you want people to be to lose their jobs to be jailed Absolutely I mean I think if that is what is required absolutely I mean Sandrois just said about incompetent psychiatrists
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You know, I mean, how these people can release someone like Calacane back out
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back to the GP when they know how dangerous he is, it beggars belief in, you know, while that report is incompetent
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and it is an incompetent report, I believe. I don't believe it's worth the paper it's written on
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However, it does say stuff in there that when you actually read the context of how dangerous he was, it begs the question, what goes on in people's heads
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How do these people live with themselves doing what they do? And, yeah, I think accountability has to happen
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I think change will only happen with accountability. And the reason that we don't get change is because things like these reports, they never acted on
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and we get two homicides for mental health patients every week almost every
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week that is a national disgrace what we want to do as families is see that there
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are zero homicides for mental health patients zero and that they are fully
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avoidable what we want to yes if people have to lose their jobs and maybe made examples of that is the only way we going to change Britain and it the only way we going to get our country to be one of the safest in Europe And that what we after We want England to be the safest country in Europe
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There should be zero mental health homicides every year, and that is what we're after
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We want accountability. Yeah. And I think, you know, if people need to go to prison
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because they've really cocked up, as Andrew said, then they need to go to prison, you know
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and it's easier to lose your job and get sent to prison
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than it is to lose your life, unfortunately. Gentlemen, we so often see that somebody is thrown under the bus
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somebody lower down the pecking order. If you believe this goes right to the top of institutions
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like the police forces, the mental health, the NHS trusts, is that what you want
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You want some proper accountability and some proper justice to be served
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so this can never be repeated again. We have never asked for anything more than the basic do your job
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We have never asked for anything more. We don't want anything more than the normal public deserve
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All we have asked for is did people do their jobs? And if they didn't do the basic jobs that they get paid for
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then they shouldn't be in a job. That all we ever asked for We do not want any special treatment We just want to find the people who didn do their jobs Simple as that And I think you know this you know Emma my wife
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Barney's mother has said a thousand times, it's not a witch hunt
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But people need to change. And if people, if you don't change these institutions
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and what they're doing and the practices they're employing, then this is just going to keep happening
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and people like us are going to be created every week and I can tell you now the pain and the suffering
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that we're going through on a regular basis because of this is horrendous and it just needs to change
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and I'm so pleased the statutory inquiry and it's statutory. That's the bit that we're really pleased about
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because that means people can't hide. Nothing can ever bring your children back
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Nothing can ever do that. But the sense of loss, I'm detecting
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and I speak with your wife, you know, And that sense of loss has been turned into a sense of purpose now
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And you don't know the kind of guys are going to say no for an answer. Absolutely not
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We want every stone unturned because at the end of the day, our beautiful daughter and son are not going to come back
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But I'll tell you what we can do. We can leave our country safer in their names
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And that's really what we want
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