23 January 2024 , 14:21
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These are the heartbreaking final moments of two bright young students as they playfully make their way home after a fun night out together.
Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, are just minutes from home but moments away from a violent death. They look as if they don't have a care in the world as they stroll down the Nottingham city centre road after going to PRYZM nightclub. At 3.59am Barnaby starts to walk backwards to face Grace as they appear to joke and giggle with one another. They seem to play around as they pass a car sales compound called Carlot. But this couple’s sweet innocent scene was about to end in bloodbath.
Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, were just minutes from homeValdo Calocane, 32, brutally knifed Barnaby and Grace, both 19, on their way home from a night out on Ilkeston Road. He then killed caretaker Ian Coates, 65, just two miles away in Mapperley Park on June 13 last year. The knifeman caused devastation around Nottingham following the sinister killing spree which started at around 4am.
Locals told of hearing the students’ “blood-curdling screams” as the pair were stabbed to death on Ilkeston Road in the early morning of Tuesday, June 13th. A nearby resident, who would not give his name, told of seeing a man dressed all in black "grappling with some people”. “She was screaming ‘Help!’ I just wish I’d shouted something out of the window to unnerve the assailant," the resident said.
Killer Valdo Calocane has pleaded guilty to manslaughter (PA)“I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing – four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road. The girl stumbled towards a house and didn’t move. The next minute she had disappeared down the side of a house, and that’s where they found her.” A couple who live nearby reportedly said their home security camera captured the horrific incident and described how Grace 'tried to save' him.
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Barnaby Webber was stabbed to death on his way home (PA)She said the attacker struck from behind: “He attacked the boy first – the girl had an opportunity to run away. But she didn't, she tried to get the man off her friend. She tried to save the boy.” It was claimed their attacker calmly walked away.
Grace O'Malley-Kumar tried to fight Calocane off in the street but sadly also lost her life (PA)Valdo Calocane, who the court heard was suffering a "serious mental illness" at the time, is being sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court after his earlier guilty pleas to three counts of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility were accepted by prosecutors. He also pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder after using the stolen van to run over three pedestrians. The hearing continues.