Nottingham attacks victim’s death potentially preventable, inquiry hears

Langdale added: “Although Sir Rob was talking generally about bereaved families, his words could have been written as a description of the bereaved families and their legal team in this inquiry. Indeed, without their efforts there would not have been a public inquiry at all.”

“The evidence we have obtained has revealed one failure after another.

“There is a suggestion in some submissions that further oral evidence should be called. We submit that there’s no need for further oral evidence from any source.

“Barney, Grace and Ian should be alive. And the survivors – uninjured.”

These further updates will be followed by closing statements – the final oral submissions to the chair, retired senior judge Deborah Taylor KC.

On Tuesday, Taylor said it was “disappointing” that over the break, evidence had emerged which “ought to have been identified” and disclosed earlier.

She directed core participants to provide any corrections to errors or omissions by no later than 31 December.

The evidence – which was not disclosed during public hearings – included a holdall bag discovered at Calocane’s former address in Burford Road in Nottingham.

Calocane was evicted from the address on 11 June 2023 and travelled to London, before returning via to Nottingham shortly before midnight on 12 June, a day before his killings.

The inquiry was told detailed examination of the holdall bag was not prioritised because efforts were focused on finding a bag which Calocane had with him on the evening of the attacks.

The notebooks were not disclosed to the inquiry until June this year, which was described as an “oversight by Nottinghamshire Police”.

In those notebooks, Calocane had written that he had died, that he was god and made references to police having “mind-reading software”.

Tim Moloney KC – representing the bereaved families – said in his closing statement that the notebooks revealed “relevant information including what we say was a deep-seated misogyny”.

In documents found at the Burford Road address, Calocane had also listed explosives and made reference to a number of public venues.

The inquiry heard further violent assaults by Calocane on colleagues at warehouses in Nottinghamshire were also not disclosed to the inquiry team until after the public hearings took place.

This included an assault on a colleague in a warehouse in Eastwood in 2021 and another in Normanton in February 2023.

Footage of the February 2023 attack, described by Moloney as “sustained attack with punches thrown”, was shown to the hearing on Tuesday.