Nottingham inquiry hears Valdo Calocane was discharged after staff could not find him

A public inquiry into the Nottingham killings has heard that Valdo Calocane was discharged from mental health services in September 2022 after staff said they could not find him.

The hearing was told he had missed appointments and made no further contact with the team.

Emma Robinson, a team leader with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Early Intervention in Psychosis service, said staff had tried to reach him at his address, by phone and by letter.

She told the inquiry: "We couldn't work with him, we couldn't find him at this point." Calocane had been under the trust's care for two years and had been sectioned four times, the inquiry heard.

He was later killed three people in Nottingham on 13 June 2023: Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates.

The evidence is significant because it goes to the question of how a patient with a serious mental health history was managed before the killings.

The inquiry is examining both the events leading up to the deaths and the aftermath.

Tim Moloney KC, representing the bereaved families, asked whether the trust had considered the risk to the public before discharge.

Robinson said the team had considered it, but had no holding powers and could not continue working with him because they could not locate him.

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