Metro – They knew for three years that he was a danger
According to Metro, a doctor warned three years before knifeman Valdo Calocane went on a deadly rampage in Nottingham that the paranoid schizophrenic could “end up killing someone”. The paper reports that breaking into a neighbour’s flat was “among a litany of missed chances to intervene” before he carried out the fatal attack in June of last year.
Elsewhere, Team GB legend Tom Daley has announced his retirement from diving after winning a silver medal at this summer’s Paris Olympics. Daley, 30, was selected as one of Team GB’s flagbearers for the opening ceremony, alongside rower Helen Glover, ahead of his fifth consecutive appearance at an Olympic Games
Doctor warned three years before knifeman Valdo Calocane
A doctor warned three years before the Nottingham attacks that Valdo Calocane would ‘end up killing someone’.
Calocane, 33, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020, stabbed three people to death in a rampage through Nottingham in June last year.
He knifed university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, to death before stabbing 65-year-old school caretaker Ian Coates.
Three other people were left seriously injured after Calocane stole Mr Coates’s van and crashed into crowds.
But Calocane’s mother and brother, Celeste and Elias, told the BBC there were a number of missed opportunities to prevent the horrifying attack.
He was sectioned four times in the last two years before the killings, with the doctor’s warning appeared in a 300-page report the family received after sentencing.
Tom Daley announces retirement from diving following Paris Olympics
Team GB legend Tom Daley has announced his retirement from diving after winning a silver medal at this summer’s Paris Olympics.
Daley, 30, was selected as one of Team GB’s flagbearers for the opening ceremony, alongside rower Helen Glover, ahead of his fifth consecutive appearance at an Olympic Games.
After making his Olympic debut aged just 14 at the Beijing Games in 2008, Daley went on to establish himself as one of the most recognisable faces in British sport.
The silver Daley won alongside Noah Williams in the men’s synchronised 10m competition was the fifth medal of his long Olympic career, after three bronzes and the gold he clinched in Tokyo three years ago.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
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Editorial 13 August 2024.
Tuesday’s front pages cover various domestic and international political stories as tensions across the Middle East and Europe continue to escalate. Many of the newspapers feature images of British diver Tom Daley – who announced his retirement just weeks after securing a silver medal at the Paris Olympics.
Elsewhere, many of the papers react to the report on the failings in the treatment of the Nottingham attacker, Valdo Calocane. The papers pick up on comments that a doctor had warned years earlier that Calocane could end up killing someone.