Families of Nottingham knife rampage victims blast 'shameful' BBC Panorama documentary
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGrieving families say a BBC Panorama documentary about a triple killer made their trauma 'a million times worse'. Paranoid Schizophrenic Valdo Calocane knifed two students and a school caretaker in Nottingham in 2023.
Relatives of Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates have made a formal complaint about the Panorama episode, saying it contains inaccuracies, was too sympathetic towards the knifeman's family and that they were refused a preview screening.
Barnaby's mum Emma told the Mirror: "We believe what the BBC produced is a very imbalanced documentary it's shameful, cold, ill-judged, arrogant and thoughtless." Their loved ones were killed when Valdo Calocane, 32, went on the rampage through the streets of Nottingham in June last year. READ MORE: He knifed Barnaby and Grace, both 19, as they returned from a night out in the early hours, then stabbed school caretaker Ian, 65, and stole his van, crashing it into three people, who suffered serious injuries.
The victims' families were further traumatised when they learned police had failed to detain Calocane when he attacked a cop a year before.
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