Relatives of the three Nottingham Victims of knife disasters have said they will spend their lives making the killer 'the next Ian Brady' to ensure he is never released.
The Court of Appeal heard this morning that Valdo Calocane must have his 'excessively lenient' TBS measure changed indefinitely to life imprisonment, following a referral from the Attorney General.
Prosecutors had previously accepted the 32-year-old's guilty pleas to manslaughter with diminished responsibility and did not seek a murder conviction after medical evidence showed Calocane suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
And he was given an indefinite hospital order after a three-day hearing at Nottingham Crown Court in January.
Deanna Heer KC, representing the Public Prosecution Service (AGO), said Calocane should instead be given a life sentence as part of a 'hybrid' order, under which he would be treated in hospital before serving the remainder of his sentence would serve prison time.
From left to right, Dr Sinead O'Malley and Dr Sanjoy Kumar, parents of Grace O'Malley-Kumar, James Coates, son of Ian Coates, and Emma and David Webber, parents of Barnaby Webber, speak to the media outside the Royal Courts in London today
The families of schoolteacher Ian Coates (left), Barnaby Webber (centre) and Grace O'Malley Kumar (right) argued this was the only way to ensure Valdo Calocane is punished for his crimes
Relatives of the victims vowed to make knifeman Valdo Calocane (pictured left) the 'next Ian Brady' (pictured right) to ensure 'he doesn't come out'
The families of Grace O'Malley Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and schoolteacher Ian Coates, 65, argued this was the only way to ensure he is punished for his crimes and prevented from harming the public again inflicts.
Barnaby Webber's mother, Emma, said outside court she acknowledged her son's killer was unwell but he was not properly held guilty.
“The criminal justice element is what's missing,” she said.
Ms Barnaby Webber added: 'The statistics show that 87 per cent [of offenders given a hospital order] be free within ten years and 98 percent within twenty years, so he would be 52.
“But even if he is that two percent, we have a whole life, and our children a whole life, of turning him into the next Ian Brady to make sure he doesn't come out.
“Sometimes in life things are right and wrong and Valdo Calocane did something wrong.
“But he knew what he was doing and what you have to do to be prosecuted for murder in this country… I don't know.”
Mechanical engineering student Calocane stabbed his three victims to death with a knife on June 13 last year and mowed down three pedestrians, who survived but were seriously injured.
Barnaby Webber's mother Emma said outside court today that she acknowledged her son's killer was unwell but he was not properly found guilty.
Barnaby Webber, 19, had been attacked by triple murderer Valdo Calocane
Nottingham victim Grace O'Malley-Kumar 'bravely' fought Valdo Calocane for 30 seconds, shouting 'don't do that' and 'why would you do that?' while stabbing Barnaby
Ian Coates was a grandfather and a much-loved caregiver at a local school
The killer, wearing a black jacket over an olive green hoody, watched the 50-minute hearing remotely from the secure hospital and remained emotionless throughout with his hands in his pockets.
Ms Heer argued that his actions involved a significant degree of planning and premeditation as he had three knives in his bag.
“He knew what he was doing; he acted deliberately and with intent to kill,” she told the court.
But Peter Joyce KC, for Calocane, said the attacks all took place while he was under the influence of a psychosis that he could do nothing about, and that changing the sentence would amount to 'punishing mental illness'.
“He didn't allow it to happen to him by using drugs, he didn't allow it to happen to him by his own behavior and he didn't allow it to happen to him by using alcohol,” he said.
Mr Joyce added: 'He came to believe he was being controlled by outside forces and he hated it.
'Voices that controlled him. Voices he hates, voices he can do nothing about.
'He still doesn't fully believe he has a mental illness – he believes the voices are still real.
'He still hears them and those voices rejoice over the trouble they caused him in Nottingham. “They're happy with it.”
Calocane was given a hospital order for manslaughter due to diminished responsibility after Nottingham Crown Court heard he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia
At the end of the hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice, Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, joined by Lord Justice Edis and Mr Justice Garnham, said they hoped to make a decision within seven days.
The police watchdog is investigating Nottinghamshire Police over possible failings relating to the case, including contact with Calocane prior to the murders and complaints from victims' families about the way the investigation was conducted.
It is clear that these are related to the inability to perform toxicological tests. Calocane refused to provide blood and urine samples while no hair sample was taken.
Family members have previously accused police of having 'blood on their hands' after it emerged an arrest warrant had been issued for Calocane nine months before the attack.
And speaking outside court alongside Ms Barnaby Webber, Dr Sanjoy Kumar, father of victim Grace O'Malley-Kumar, vowed to continue fighting the organizations that failed the families.
The families leave the Royal Courts of Justice in London today after the hearing of Nottingham murderer Valdo Calocane
Dr. Sanjoy Kumar, father of victim Grace O'Malley-Kumar, vowed to keep fighting the organizations that failed the families
“Valdo Calocane killed our children and Ian Coates, and it's very, very difficult for all of us in this process, when we should be mourning our children, but instead we're fighting for them,” he said.
'But we will fight. We will fight against all the organizations that have failed us, and what is becoming abundantly clear is the long list of people and organizations that have failed us.”