The Nottingham attacks victims' families said they felt 'rushed' by the Crown Prosecution Service after Valdo Calocane’s guilty pleas to manslaughter were accepted on the basis of diminished responsibility
The mother of one of the Nottingham attacks victims has said the families felt “wholly ignored”, ahead of a meeting with the Care Quality Commission and the CPS Inspectorate. Emma Webber, the mother of Barnaby Webber, said the families felt “rushed” by the Crown Prosecution Service and that Valdo Calocane’s guilty pleas to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility felt “railroaded”.
“But what we were given was a fait accompli, and we had a lot of concerns that were in the most part wholly ignored.” Grace O’Malley-Kumar’s father, Dr Sanjoy Kumar, said having to continue to campaign for murder charges had made the “grief worse” and “saps energy”.He told BBC Breakfast: “We, as a family, feel completely broken. After you’ve been through something horrendous like this, you should have the end result you wanted.