The report, seen by the paper, also found they failed to check the police national computer, which would have identified Calocane was wanted for an attack on a police officer in Nottinghamshire in 2022, as well as not downloading CCTV footage of the warehouse attack.
The report by the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) into police handling of Calocane – who killed 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates in June 2023 – found a string of errors which meant he remained free, according to The Sun.
The families of Nottingham attacker Valdo Calocane’s victims have said their relatives were “badly failed by the authorities” following a report by a police watchdog.
“If the police had just done their jobs properly by performing a simple check on the police national computer, Barnaby, Grace and Ian might still be alive today.”.
In a statement to The Sun, the victims’ families said: “The damning failures exposed by this investigation are just another example of how our loved ones were badly failed by the authorities.
