A chilling phone call made by Nottingham attacker Valdo Calocane made just moments before he went on a killing spree has been revealed.
Calocane’s brutal spree began at 4am in the city’s Ilkeston Road where medical student Grace O’Malley-Kumar, of Woodford, and history student Barnaby Webber, of Taunton, both 19, were fatally stabbed as they walked home from a night out.
Ian Coates, who was weeks away from retiring at Huntington Academy, was then killed two miles away from the location of his first attack in Mapperley Park.
Calocane then took Ian’s van and drove to Nottingham city centre where he rammed into Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski, who suffered minor injuries and Wayne Birkett, 58, was critically hurt.
His rampage ended when the van was stopped by police in Hyson Green and Calocane was arrested.
Now it has been revealed in court Calocane made a chilling phone call to his brother prior to the night of violence on June 13 last year.
In the call, he said: “This is the last time I will talk to you. After this I will leave you alone, disassociate yourself from me. If anything happens don’t come and see me in hospital.”
One former flatmate of Calocane when he attended the University of Nottingham told the Mirror they were so scared of the “volatile” student they put a lock on the inside of their bedroom door.
They said: “He was like Jekyll and Hyde. Chilled one minute, raging the next. We called him The Psycho behind his back.”
Another student told the paper he “hated noise” and would snap if he was disturbed while studying or sleeping.
They told the publication: ““He would lose it if we came back late from a night out and woke him up.
“It was a bad mix. He was a guy in his late 20s, we were party animals barely out of our teens. Valdo was so volatile. He came storming out of his room in a rage without warning.”
Calocane’s guilty pleas to the manslaughter of Grace, Barnaby and school caretaker Ian were accepted by prosecutors yesterday. He denied murdering the trio and prosecutors requested an adjournment while deciding whether to accept his pleas to manslaughter.
The court heard that he had a four-year history of major mental disorder and was referred to mental health services in 2020, being admitted to hospital in May that year, where he spent a month as an in-patient. Calocane was detained by police under the Mental Health Act in July 2020 and spent another month in hospital.
Calocane was again detained by police under the Mental Health Act in November 2021 and January 2022 and once again released. From then on he refused to cooperate with mental health services. Calocane was charged with assaulting a police officer in Nottingham in September 2022.
He failed to turn up to court and a warrant was issued for his arrest and was still on the run when he went on the killing spree last year.
He will now face a sentencing hearing which is expected to last two days.
