Overview
- A Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor told the inquiry police tried to emergency charge Valdo Calocane before formal advice, saying officers felt outside pressure and that one charge was filed early.
- Nottinghamshire Police outlined response lapses that hindered the search, with firearms vehicles sent back to headquarters while the attacker was still at large.
- Senior policing figures accepted serious operational failings over missed chances to detain Calocane sooner, as a Leicestershire officer overlooked an active warrant after a warehouse assault weeks before the killings.
- Health and university witnesses described critical information gaps, with an NHS trust locking down past records after the attacks and campus staff unaware of a 2020 doctor’s note warning he could “perhaps kill someone.”
- The inquiry is probing why prosecutors relied on psychiatric reports to accept manslaughter pleas and how families were informed, after experts said psychosis drove the crimes yet the specific motive remains unknown.