Who is Valdo Calocane?published at 15:19 BST 18 May
15:19 BST 18 May
We know Valdo Calocane was responsible for the deaths of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates. But what else do we know about the perpetrator of the Nottingham attacks?
Calocane, who has referred to himself as Adam Mendes, was born
in Guinea-Bissau on 4 September 1991.
His family moved to Portugal when he was three, before
coming to the UK in 2007 when he was 16 years old.
The triple killer completed a degree in mechanical
engineering at the University of Nottingham, graduating in June 2022, when he
was aged 30.
At Calocane’s sentencing hearing, the court was told he had
no previous convictions.
However, the inquiry has heard he had a history of police
interactions linked to violent incidents, including the assault on
Nottinghamshire Police officer PC Barnaby Pritchard.
In May 2020, Calocane was experiencing a psychotic episode
when he kicked in the door of a woman’s flat at Brook Court in Radford.
The woman fell from a window as she attempted to flee and was left needing metalwork and screws
surgically fitted to her spine.
In July 2021, while he was a student at the University of
Nottingham, Calocane suddenly grabbed his housemate, Sebastian, by the shirt and held him up against a wall.
Sebastian also reported being followed home by Calocane in 2022.
In January 2022, while living at different accommodation,
Calocane put his flatmate, Christopher, into a headlock following a
confrontation about cleaning.
Weeks before the attacks, in May 2023, Calocane violently assaulted two colleagues at a warehouse in Leicestershire.
Image source, Helen Tipper