Ellie Costello GRILLS Labour MP on failings that led to Nottingham killings
Ellie Costello has furiously grilled Environmental Secretary Steve Reed MP over the failings that led to Valdo Calocane’s Nottingham killings.
During a heated questioning exchange, the GB News host asked “how many more people have to die” before a change will be made to the system.
Ellie asked: “He was discharged prematurely from his inpatient stays. He wasn’t taking his medication.
“The NHS were aware of that. His family warned repeatedly that he posed a danger to society if something was not done.
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“This is another person, same as Axel Rudakubana just a few weeks ago, who is a violent person with mental health problems who slipped through the cracks. How many more people have to die before something is done?”
Steve Reed responded: “Well, it’s absolutely shocking. And first of all, I’d like to express again my sympathies to the families of those people who were so horrifically murdered by this individual.
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“Of course, we have to learn the lessons from what’s gone wrong. It looks like at every single stage of what should have been his care. There was failure.
“We have to understand what that failure was. We’ve got the report today which points to many of those failures.
“There will be learnings and lessons from that that will be applied widely.
“But my colleague Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has said he will order a further inquiry so that we can learn every single lesson and apply it.
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“So what went wrong in this case can never go wrong again, because it is a catalogue of catastrophic errors that led to the avoidable deaths of these three people.”
Valdo Calocane was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was discharged from NHS mental health services five times before killing Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates.
An independent report has revealed that Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane was not required to take long-term antipsychotic medication because he “did not like needles.”
The investigation found that medical teams tried to treat Calocane “in the least restrictive way,” despite concerns over his willingness to comply with his medication.
The families of the three victims said the report showed Calocane was “responsible for his actions and was allowed to make these decisions by his treating teams”.
The have called for a full enquiry into the failings of the NHS as a result.