Mourn the victims

Families of two students killed in the Nottingham terror attack walked side by side, in grief, retracing their steps before their lives were brutally taken a year ago.

On June 13, Valdo Calocane killed Barnaby Webber, 19, and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, as well as 65-year-old school janitor Ian Coates.

On Thursday morning, their family walked home along Ilkeston Road in Nottingham, following the same route that Miss O’Malley Kumar and Mr Webb took before they were fatally stabbed.

The walk was followed by commemorative ceremonies at Nottingham University and Huntingdon College in St Annes, where Mr Coates worked as a caretaker.

Family and friends of the victims also took part in the procession, laying dozens of roses on Ilkeston Road.

Kalocane then stabbed Mr Coates in Magdala Road, stole his van and then rammed three pedestrians with his car.

Hundreds of people gathered at a memorial service at the university to pay tribute to the victims.

David Webb, who took part in the walk in memory of his son, told BBC Breakfast that the world had “changed dramatically for us” a year ago and being in Nottingham felt “surreal”.

He added: “Barnaby and Grace love the university. Ian loves the city. We are here for them.”

Weber added that returning to the city on the first anniversary of the attacks was “bittersweet.”

“The hardest thing is driving into the city, which has nothing to do with the city,” he continued.

“It’s about what happened here, knowing that my son’s last breath was here.

“If you ask me what I really want to do, I want to curl up in the corner of my bedroom and not leave, but that’s not what Barnaby would want me to do. It’s probably not what Grace or Ian would want me to do either.”

At Huntingdon College in the St Anne’s area of ​​Nottingham, pupils paid tribute to Ian Coates, who worked there as a janitor for seven years and was killed on his way to work.

In his memory, an exhibition was held with children wearing red, a symbol of love and kindness, to honour Mr Coates’s love for Nottingham Forest.

His son, Mr Lee, said: “What they have done is remarkable and the effort they have put in is great.

“At a young age, it’s nice to know that it’s OK if you don’t feel well and that you have somewhere to go and someone you can talk to.

“I think that’s critically important.”

Caloocan Sentenced to an indefinite hospital order After pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

According to the Crown Prosecution Service, medical experts provided “conclusive” evidence that he was suffering from severe mental illness at the time of the attack.

Carocane’s sentence was challenged by the victims’ families, but an appeals court ruled in May that it was not unduly lenient.

Weber said the families of the three victims had “paid the price with their lives” and he called for changes to the country’s justice system.

He and his wife Emma Webb Call for a public inquiry It had already been involved in the case as early as January.