Mental health nurse admits errors in killer's records

Mental health nurse admits errors in killer's records2 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleAsha PatelEast MidlandsNottinghamshire PoliceValdo Calocane had been detained under Mental Health Act four times before he killed three people in NottinghamA nurse has admitted to a public inquiry that she made errors in the records of a mentally ill man before he went on to kill three people in a spate of attacks.Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, stabbed to death Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates, and tried to kill three others, in Nottingham on 13 June 2023. Calocane was under the care of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) from 2020 but was discharged due to a lack of engagement nine months before the attacks.On Monday at the Nottingham Inquiry, mental health nurse Busayo Ajewole admitted her notes were at times lacking information, copied and pasted and fundamentally wrong.Calocane first presented to NHFT with symptoms of psychosis in May 2020, after he broke into a neighbour's flat where he lived at Brook Court in Radford, Nottingham. Between then and February 2022, he had six Mental Health Act assessments which led to four hospital admissions.The inquiry was shown risk assessment forms from that period, which showed a series of incorrect information.SuppliedBarnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were killed by Calocane on 13 June 2023Calocane's first admission to a psychiatric ward at Highbury Hospital in Nottingham was from 25 May 2020 to 17 June 2020, the inquiry heard.That began the day after he broke into a woman's flat, causing her to flee before she fell from a window and fractured her spine.The inquiry was told Calocane was transferred back to the same ward on 14 July until 31 July, after he tried to force entry to another neighbour's flat.Following his detention, Ajewole - a clinical team leader at Highbury - updated a form used to assess pati...