Calocane 'deserves treating and can be treated', court told
Finishing his mitigation, Peter Joyce KC, representing Valdo Calocane, said that: "Of course he destroyed these lives. It (mental illness) destroyed their lives and his life is destroyed too. He deserves treating. He can be treated.
“It is very unlikely that for very, very many years he will see other than the inside of a secure mental hospital.”
Submitting that a hospital order should be passed on Calocane, Mr Joyce told the court: “We are not asking for a soft option. All four psychiatrists on the facts of this case have come to the same conclusion as to his treatment and the protection of the public long-term.”
Being confined in a hospital such as Ashworth, Broadmoor or Rampton was “no easy option for a man who, before this disease stalked him down” had been a man of impeccable character, his lawyer concluded.