Police probe government agencies over claims staff illegally accessed Nottingham attack files
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Police are probing claims staff at two government agencies illegally accessed records and images of the Nottingham murders, the Mirror can reveal. Workers at HM Courts and Tribunals Service and HM Prison and Probation Service are under investigation. It is suspected they had no proper reason to look at sensitive information about the horror which saw paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane kill university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65.
Today their heartbroken families are horrified by the news and told us: “Once more we have been advised of probable failings and misconduct of individuals from the very agencies that should be there to protect us. The pain we continue to suffer from the utterly preventable and tragic loss of our loved ones has been made so much harder to bear by these continuing revelations and we dread to think what else is still to be uncovered.”.
Barnaby’s mum Emmer Webber added: “So many individuals and organisations failed Barney, Grace and Ian - It’s an utter disgrace. Leicester and Nottingham police forces, the NHS, the CPS and now the wider courts and prison and probation service. When will it ever stop? Shame on them.”.
The families learned of the alleged breach this week in a letter from the South East Regional and Organised Crime Unit. Detective Inspector Mark O’Brien wrote: “Nottinghamshire Police received a report of alleged data breaches during the trial of the perpetrator of the crimes against your loved one. We believe the breaches involved individuals accessing case file material and in some cases images, for which we do not believe there was any authorised purpose.”.
