Valdo Calocane’s dislike of needles left him unmedicated for schizophrenia, finds report
Doctors treating Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and murdered two university students and a school caretaker, refrained from giving him long lasting depot injections of antipsychotics partly because he disliked needles, the NHS England report into his care has revealed.1 NHS England, which had intended to publish only a summary of the independent report by Theemis Consulting, decided to publish the report in full “in line with the wishes of the families and given the level of detail already in the public domain.” The report deals with the care given to Calocane by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as well as interactions with other agencies. Calocane was sentenced to a hospital order in January 2024 after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of University of Nottingham students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both aged 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, on 13 June 2023 on the basis of diminished responsibility. He also …
