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2023 Nottingham attacks
In the early morning of 13 June 2023, three people were fatally stabbed and three others were injured when a van was driven into them in three connected attacks in Nottingham in the East Midlands of the United Kingdom. At around 04:00 BST, Valdo Calocane fatally stabbed two university students in the street and subsequently a school caretaker, whose van he then stole. After driving the van into people at a nearby bus stop, Calocane was arrested.
On 16 June 2023, Calocane was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder and on 17 June he was remanded in custody. In November 2023, Calocane denied the three counts of murder, but admitted three counts of manslaughter, on the basis of diminished responsibility, and three further counts of attempted murder. His pleas were accepted by the prosecution. On 25 January 2024, Calocane was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court to be detained indefinitely at a high-security hospital.
One of the victims, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, was posthumously awarded the George Medal for her bravery during the incident.
At 04:00 BST on 13 June 2023, two 19-year-olds were found fatally stabbed on Ilkeston Road, Radford, Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Police received a request to attend at 04:05. An anonymous eyewitness told police that he had seen the two students being attacked, heard an awful scream, and saw a man dressed in black with a hood and rucksack fighting with some people. He watched the male victim collapse in the centre of the road, while the woman moved towards a house before disappearing by the side of the house. CCTV footage was later found apparently showing the suspect attempting to break into a bedroom at Seely Hirst House hostel on Mapperley Road, less than an hour after he had attacked the two students.
At 05:25, police were called to an incident in which a van had been driven into people waiting at a bus stop near the Theatre Royal in the city centre, in which three people were injured. The suspect then attempted to run over two other pedestrians in the Sherwood Street area; they were believed to have suffered minor injuries. A man was found stabbed to death on Magdala Road in the Mapperley Park area of the city, close to Seely House Hostel. At about 05:34, after a man approached police with a knife, he was tasered outside a convenience store in Bentinck Road, Forest Fields and was arrested on suspicion of murder.
The first two people killed in the attacks were 19-year-old first-year students at the University of Nottingham, Barnaby Webber, who was studying history, and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, who was studying medicine. The third person to be killed was 65-year-old Ian Coates, the owner of the van which was subsequently stolen, on his way to work as a school caretaker. The other victims were wounded after they were run into at a bus stop; one was in a critical condition. On 15 June, a Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust spokesman said the man left in a critical condition was now stable.
In October 2025, O'Malley-Kumar was posthumously awarded the George Medal, the UK's second highest award for civilian bravery, for her bravery in defending the injured Webber.
Police were said to be working closely with counter-terrorism police but keeping an "open mind" as to the motive. Police said they believed that the perpetrator had acted alone.
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2023 Nottingham attacks
In the early morning of 13 June 2023, three people were fatally stabbed and three others were injured when a van was driven into them in three connected attacks in Nottingham in the East Midlands of the United Kingdom. At around 04:00 BST, Valdo Calocane fatally stabbed two university students in the street and subsequently a school caretaker, whose van he then stole. After driving the van into people at a nearby bus stop, Calocane was arrested.
On 16 June 2023, Calocane was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder and on 17 June he was remanded in custody. In November 2023, Calocane denied the three counts of murder, but admitted three counts of manslaughter, on the basis of diminished responsibility, and three further counts of attempted murder. His pleas were accepted by the prosecution. On 25 January 2024, Calocane was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court to be detained indefinitely at a high-security hospital.
One of the victims, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, was posthumously awarded the George Medal for her bravery during the incident.
At 04:00 BST on 13 June 2023, two 19-year-olds were found fatally stabbed on Ilkeston Road, Radford, Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Police received a request to attend at 04:05. An anonymous eyewitness told police that he had seen the two students being attacked, heard an awful scream, and saw a man dressed in black with a hood and rucksack fighting with some people. He watched the male victim collapse in the centre of the road, while the woman moved towards a house before disappearing by the side of the house. CCTV footage was later found apparently showing the suspect attempting to break into a bedroom at Seely Hirst House hostel on Mapperley Road, less than an hour after he had attacked the two students.
At 05:25, police were called to an incident in which a van had been driven into people waiting at a bus stop near the Theatre Royal in the city centre, in which three people were injured. The suspect then attempted to run over two other pedestrians in the Sherwood Street area; they were believed to have suffered minor injuries. A man was found stabbed to death on Magdala Road in the Mapperley Park area of the city, close to Seely House Hostel. At about 05:34, after a man approached police with a knife, he was tasered outside a convenience store in Bentinck Road, Forest Fields and was arrested on suspicion of murder.
The first two people killed in the attacks were 19-year-old first-year students at the University of Nottingham, Barnaby Webber, who was studying history, and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, who was studying medicine. The third person to be killed was 65-year-old Ian Coates, the owner of the van which was subsequently stolen, on his way to work as a school caretaker. The other victims were wounded after they were run into at a bus stop; one was in a critical condition. On 15 June, a Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust spokesman said the man left in a critical condition was now stable.
In October 2025, O'Malley-Kumar was posthumously awarded the George Medal, the UK's second highest award for civilian bravery, for her bravery in defending the injured Webber.
Police were said to be working closely with counter-terrorism police but keeping an "open mind" as to the motive. Police said they believed that the perpetrator had acted alone.