Valdo Calocane: what are high-security hospitals and could his sentence be changed?

The Nottingham killer has been detained under a hospital order with restrictions – how does this work?

On Thursday, Valdo Calocane, an engineering graduate diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to a hospital order with restrictions for killing three people and attempting to kill three others in a violent spree across Nottingham.

The decision enraged the families of his victims, who believe he should have been prosecuted for murder, with one saying they were “railroaded” into accepting Calocane’s plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/ZRsTIUh

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