Nottingham attacks police misconduct meeting delayed after concerns raised

A misconduct meeting for three police officers in relation to a police force’s contact with the Nottingham attacks killer has been postponed.

Valdo Calocane allegedly attacked two employees at a warehouse in Leicestershire about five weeks before he fatally stabbed Ian Coates, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber in Nottingham on 13 June 2023.

The families of the victims had called for the hearings to be delayed, criticising the work of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in the case as “flawed, hastened and incomplete”.

David Sandall, deputy chief constable of Leicestershire Police, said the meeting “will take place in due course and we will update interested parties”.

“We are aware of the concerns which have been raised by the families and have discussed these in detail,” he said.

“To continue to ensure the integrity and transparency of this meeting and having considered the views of the families and the other interested parties, the chair of the meeting has made the decision to postpone this meeting.”

Following the announcement of the delays, Emma Webber, mum of Barnaby Webber, said the move was “another 11th-hour U-turn” and “the result of another relentless and torturous fight that we’ve had to wage against yet another agency who has failed to do their job properly”.

“The statutory inquiry is due to begin shortly, thank goodness,” she said.

“However in the meantime [we] will continue on, unwavering in our fight to get the truth and for those who failed to be held accountable.”