{"id":468045,"date":"2026-03-10T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468045\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:27:07","slug":"nottingham-triple-killer-tried-to-prise-open-window-of-hostel-on-day-of-attacks-inquiry-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468045\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham triple killer tried to prise open window of hostel on day of attacks, inquiry told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colleague told police he thought Calocane was &#8216;unstable&#8217;published at 15:08 GMT<\/p>\n<p>15:08 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew told the inquiry that after police arrived on the scene, he escorted officers over to the area where the assault took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he mentioned to the officers that he was told a knife was present, and had been kicked under a conveyor belt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The only other thing I mentioned to police on the way up is that I actually thought he was, I felt like he had some kind of mental illness to be honest, or he was mentally unstable,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew added he was not sure of his exact wording at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he found the incident &#8220;very unusual&#8221; due to Valdo Calocane&#8217;s response at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Calocane did not seek to defend his actions, Matthew said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew also felt Calocane was &#8220;almost looking through&#8221; him when he intervened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said Calocane was &#8220;pacing back and forth&#8221; after assaulting the workers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colleague told police he thought Calocane was &#8216;unstable&#8217;published at 15:08 GMT 15:08 GMT Matthew told the inquiry that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-468045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}