Overview
- Dr Faizal Seedat told the Nottingham Inquiry on Thursday that his 2020 email saying Valdo Calocane was not in touch with reality influenced the police decision not to charge him over a break-in.
- He said he should not have given that view for charging decisions and accepted he was wrong to state Calocane had no recollection of the incident.
- He described his July 2020 note that Calocane might “end up killing someone” as a worst-case warning to shock him into change rather than a belief he intended to kill.
- He admitted he failed to recognise that “red rum” in Calocane’s April 2020 texts meant murder spelled backward, and said those messages were not shared with police but should have been.
- The inquiry, led by retired judge Deborah Taylor, is examining police, NHS and watchdog failings before the June 13, 2023 killings, with families still upset that prosecutors later accepted manslaughter pleas and Calocane was detained in a high-security hospital.