Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane's sentence not unduly lenient, say judges

The sentence given to Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane was not "unduly lenient", senior judges have ruled.
Calocane, 32, was handed an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility of Grace O'Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates, and the attempted murder of three others in June 2023.
The attacker's guilty pleas were accepted after medical evidence showed he has paranoid schizophrenia.
The judge at his sentencing said he would be detained at a high-security hospital "very probably" for the rest of his life.
Attorney General Victoria Prentis referred the sentence to the Court of Appeal, arguing it was "unduly lenient".
At a previous hearing, lawyers said Calocane should instead be given a "hybrid" life sentence, where he would first be treated for his paranoid schizophrenia before serving the remainder of his jail term in prison.
However, this was rejected in a ruling from the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, Lord Justice Edis and Mr Justice Garnham at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London.
In a summary of the Court of Appeal decision, Baroness Carr said: "There was no error in the approach adopted by the judge.
"The sentences imposed were not arguably unduly lenient."
The decision of the court can be read in full at: www.judiciary.uk/judgments/re...
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