Posted on 01/25/2024 11:08:49 PM PST by RandFan
The attorney general is considering whether judges should review the sentence of killer Valdo Calocane.
The 32-year-old fatally stabbed students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, before killing school caretaker Ian Coates last June.
He was given an indefinite hospital order on Thursday after admitting to the killings in Nottingham.
The attorney general's office confirmed it has received a referral arguing the sentence was unduly lenient.
During the sentencing at Nottingham Crown Court, Mr Justice Turner said Calocane would "very probably" be detained in a high-security hospital for the rest of his life, after he admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
On 13 June, University of Nottingham students Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, were fatally stabbed in Ilkeston Road just after 04:00 BST.
Mr Coates, 65, was found dead with knife injuries in Magdala Road after his van was stolen.
Pedestrians Wayne Birkett, Marcin Gawronski and Sharon Miller were then driven at in Milton Street and Upper Parliament Street, in the city centre.
Calocane, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia before the attacks, also pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder.
Mr Justice Turner branded Calocane's crimes "sickening" adding his actions "shocked the nation and wrecked the lives of your surviving victims and the families of them all".
He added the "central issue" was "whether at the time of committing these offences, you were suffering from symptoms of severe mental disorder".
The judge said, however, the psychiatric evidence did not detract from the "horror" and "disastrous" impact of the offences.
He said, in his view, Calocane's abnormality of mind "significantly contributed" to him perpetrating the attacks.
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The families are not happy and want it looked at.
US versions include convincing a psychiatrist to plead for release as the criminal is now “cured.”
Book by Ayn Rand protege and lifelong friend Erika Holzer called Eye For An Eye (1993) was made into a movie later.
Grieving family members form a support group. New member notices the news story of the killer who got away with it in court is now mysteriously dead. She decides to help the secret inner group to achieve genuine justice and closure for the people, now including her after her daughter was tormented and raped and then killed by a man who was let go in the criminal justice system and is going on to kill more women he stalks.
“Mr. Pierrepoint,.. Mr. Albert Pierrepoint please...”
More Nitrogen needed...
So sad and he’s going to do the easiest time there is in some secure hospital and at huge taxpayer expense
As Does So says need Nitrogen..
Those stalkings that led to murder…were not even his first rodeo. Another girl tracked by him, jumped out her window and escaped him. Other students were targeted and told to “ keep their doors locked”… as the University groveled to the skin color of a deranged murderer.
Alabama has a pain free solution for this guy.
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