'The system is so broken', killer's mum tells inquiry

'The system is so broken', killer's mum tells inquiryJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleAsha PatelandIsaac Ashe,East MidlandsBBCCeleste Calocane gave evidence to the Nottingham Inquiry on ThursdayThe mother of Nottingham attacks killer Valdo Calocane has told a public inquiry the system that was supposed to care for him was "so broken".Valdo, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020, stabbed to death Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates and tried to kill three others in a spate of attacks on 13 June 2023.Celeste Calocane, Valdo's mother, told the Nottingham Inquiry - which is examining the attacks - that she had to attempt to navigate services she did not understand, while he was sectioned four times in the space of two years.The inquiry heard Celeste had raised concerns that her son was a risk to the public three years before his fatal attacks.Valdo, whose family live in Wales, was studying and living in Nottingham when he experienced his first episode of psychosis, the inquiry heard.He was born in Guinea-Bissau in 1991 and lived in Madeira, and then Lisbon, in Portugal as a young child, before his family moved to the UK when he was 16. Celeste said she became aware something was wrong with her son in 2020, when he started to call the family "agitated and crying". He was arrested in May 2020 after trying to break into a neighbour's flat, which led to his first admission to a psychiatric ward at Highbury Hospital in Nottingham on 25 May.Nottinghamshire PoliceValdo Calocane is currently serving an indefinite hospital order in a high-security facilityCeleste said she was told on that occasion, there was "no diagnosis" for her son at that stage because it was a first episode.Valdo was discharged on 13 June but Celeste said she felt it was "too early" but said she had "no power" to do anything else beyond agreeing with admissions to hospital.After his disc...